HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. HAProxy is known to reliably run on the following OS/Platforms : * Linux 2.4 on x86, [...]
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HAProxy – High Availability Platform
Published July 20th, 2010 in FreeBSD, GNU/Linux and Unix. 0 CommentsCMUcam3: Open Source Programmable Embedded Color Vision Platform
Published July 9th, 2010 in GNU/Linux and Hardware. 0 CommentsThe goal of the CMUcam project is to provide simple vision capabilities to small embedded systems in the form of an intelligent sensor. The CMUcam3 extends upon this idea by providing a flexible and easy to use open source development environment that complements a low cost hardware platform. The CMUcam3 is an ARM7TDMI based fully [...]
Gluster Storage Platform is an open source clustered storage solution. The software is a powerful and flexible solution that simplifies the task of managing unstructured file data whether you have a few terabytes of storage or multiple petabytes. Gluster Storage Platform integrates the file system, an operating system layer, and a web-based management interface and [...]
The Nano-X Window System is an Open Source project aimed at bringing the features of modern graphical windowing environments to smaller devices and platforms. Nano-X allows applications to be built and tested on the Linux desktop, as well as cross-compiled for the target device. The Nano-X Window System was previously named Microwindows, but has been [...]
coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today’s computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload. With this separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot is capable of scaling [...]
How to see the process tree with ps command? There’s some options: ps -ejH ps axjf Or also we can use other command: pstree More info: http://www.linfo.org/pstree.html http://linux.die.net/man/1/ps
If you want to know the speed and type of your computer RAM module, it’s a method who helps you. So lets begin, we need to use biosdecode command, and this is the correct option: dmidecode –type 17 More info about this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-ram-speed-linux http://linux.die.net/man/8/biosdecode
trapper is a sniffer & ARP poisoning tool made in perl. The current version supports sniffing protocols like HTTP, FTP, telnet POP3, IMAP, SMTP, MSN, IRC, SMB, SIP, TeamSpeak and VCN. Also this tool include the attack known as APR ( ARP Poison Routing ). More protocols and types of attacks will be added in [...]
LXDE – Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment
Published January 8th, 2010 in GNU/Linux and Unix. 0 CommentsLXDE is an energy saving and extremely fast and performing desktop solution. It works well with computers on the low end of the performance spectrum such as new generation netbooks and other small mobile computers. Source: http://lxde.org
HOWTO ping a bluetooth device
Published December 17th, 2009 in Bluetooth, GNU/Linux and Unix. 0 CommentsIf you want to know how’s the signal with your bluetooth device maybe you want to make a ping to it, like common ping used in IP networks. So, for make it in bluetooth networks we have to use l2ping, for example: # l2ping 00:11:C0:19:C9:C1 Ping: 00:11:C0:19:C9:C1 from 00:1A:6B:DC:F1:A1 (data size 44) … 44 bytes [...]
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion. The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system. Motion is a command line [...]
n2n: a Layer Two Peer-to-Peer VPN
Published December 8th, 2009 in FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Networking and Unix. 0 Commentsn2n is a layer-two peer-to-peer virtual private network (VPN) which allows users to exploit features typical of P2P applications at network instead of application level. This means that users can gain native IP visibility (e.g. two PCs belonging to the same n2n network can ping each other) and be reachable with the same network IP [...]
PacketFence is a fully supported, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system. PacketFence is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions over the past years. It can be used to effectively secure networks – from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence has been deployed in production environments where thousands [...]
It is an alternative for a NetworkManager who some time makes me crazy when it doesn’t work as I like. And I have to kill it for work. Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety [...]
Open1X – IEEE 802.1X open source implementation
Published November 23rd, 2009 in GNU/Linux and Unix. 0 CommentsOpen1X is an open source implementation of the IEEE 802.1X protocol. This project includes support for the supplicant, while other projects (e.g., FreeRADIUS) provide support for the authentication server. Source: http://open1x.sourceforge.net
