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Now a days, most computers include hard drives with 100s of gigabytes of space. In such a scenario, it is inevitable that you partition the hard drive to optimize the use of space. Dividing your hard drive into individual partitions for your operating system, programs, data files, music, and images provides better organization and, most important, much better data safety in the event of a drive crash.
Sun Microsystems acquires Innotek
Innotek are the makers of the popular open source virtualization software called Virtualbox which is an excellent alternative to the closed source Vmware product. Virtualbox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Sun has revealed that it has acquired Innotek.
Python scripts vs Bash scripts in Linux
Almost all Linux users who are at least familiar with bash shell commands will be at home in writing simple bash scripts to automate tasks. For those who do not know how to write a bash script, here is how you do it.
LinuxHaxor.net at ?Certified Ethical Hacker v6? Courseware!!
Today, I got an e-mail from EC-Council, about my site being mentioned as a reference material for the ‘Certified Ethical Hacker v6′ courseware. Here is the e-mail I received [some information withheld].
Hello,
Greetings of the day.
Please allow me to introduce myself as a member of the technical development team at EC-Council.
Currently we are finalizing the release version of our courseware that prepares aspirants for the certification ?Certified Ethical Hacker v6′ as awarded by EC-Council. In this context, we would like to seek your permission to include references to your work ?Netenum? published as a resource material for the said instructional material.
It would be an honor for us to feature your work here and look forward to hearing from you regarding your kind consent. All due credits will be given in the courseware in the research endnotes and if you would like to adhere to any specific copyright clause, please do let us know.
We are committed towards protecting intellectual property and willing to do all that it takes to uphold this principle.
While this might not be a big deal to some. It is a big deal to me, and hopefully the beginning of other good things to come. As you might have seen that I have not updated this site as often as I would love to. That’s because I am adding some projects to this existing site which you can see in the right-hand corner in the sidebar. Along with this blog, I have 10 other blogs that I almost regularly work on, and I have some clients and their website that I work with. Which is why I can’t post as often. Hope fully I will get things in order and start posting more often.
On the bight side I am accepting guest posts, and also hiring authors who are willing to work in this blog (and others). Guest posters have the option of mentioning their blogs/website in their article while Paid authors will be paid CPM based. If you are interested. Shoot me an e-mail at pavs.ma@ gmail.com or admin@ linuxhaxor.net
PSAD is a collection of four lightweight system daemons written in Perl and in C that is designed to work with Linux firewalling code (iptables in the 2.4.x kernels, and ipchains in the 2.2.x kernels) to detect port scans. It features a set of highly configurable danger thresholds (with sensible defaults provided), verbose alert messages that include the source, destination, scanned port range, begin and end times, tcp flags and corresponding nmap options (Linux 2.4.x kernels only), reverse DNS info, email alerting, and automatic blocking of offending ip addresses via dynamic configuration of ipchains/iptables firewall rulesets. In addition, for the 2.4.x kernels psad incorporates many of the tcp signatures included in Snort to detect highly suspect scans.
