• Study shows how spammers cash in
  Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.
  (tags: web spam news internet email bbc)
• Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial – DarkReading
  After receiving the highest security rating by a National Security Agency (NSA)-run certification program, Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity-178B operating system was certified as EAL6+ and that the company had spun off a subsidiary to market the OS to the private sector as well as government agencies.
  (tags: technology security os certification eal6 slashdot)
• Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries
  Each binary is submitted for evaluation within 24hrs of our harvesting it live from the Internet. Each antivirus tool is only given this one attempt to detect the binary. Our intention is to evaluate how the antivirus tools are performing against the latest malware on the Internet, at least from the narrow vantage point of our honeynet.
  (tags: tools security malware antivirus software)

Boot From CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-1of6.iso … then type “linux rescue”, choose your keyboard layout and the images show what happened next!!!

VMware Host: Windows 2003 SP1
VMware Server Version 1.101

updating twitter tools for wordpress

Should be studying, am playing with linux tho, ps3 seems like a good idea

• UNetbootin – Linux USB Boot Disk Creator
  UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD.
  (tags: windows utilities usb unetbootin ubuntu tutorial tools fedora linux)
• Bogons Be Gone! – CCIE Blog
  What in the word is a bogon? It is a source address that should not appear in an IP packet on an interface that faces the public Internet.
  (tags: ccie networking security blog)

I can’t find an official suggestions or “request for enhancements” webpage for sony’s ps3; I’m sure the developers are fed of of people asking for in game access to music or the web browser so it’s hidden away somewhere, but I think I have some genuine fresh ideas…. maybe?

Dynamic Bookmarks from Avahi / Bonjour / ZeroConf
I don’t have a keyboard for my PS3 the reason for this is that I have a PC/Laptop, in the event I want to do some heavy browsing my 1st thought won’t be to use my PlayStation, this being said, I do occasionally use the PS3 to check specific websites; when I download content from the PlayStation Store I have a tendency to log into my cacti install and check on my bandwidth usage, typing http://192.168.168.168/cacti into my bookmarks was a real pain via the on-screen keyboard, but if the PS3 could have learned this from network that would have been really cool. Direct Access to my bookmarks from the XMB would be nice too.

UPNP Media Servers & the XMB need a re-think
My mediatomb server shares out my “media” directory, in that directory I have all of my A/V content. The thing is to switch between watching my latest family video and viewing pictures of the fireworks last week rather than just playing “any” content available in the directory, I have to scroll all the way back to the start of the XMB change from video to picture and then dive all the way back through my directory structure, perhaps something like ~/media/family/events/5Nov09/….. this can become quite tiresome.
My Solution would to make media servers an extra top level XMB entry which appears when a server is found, thus allowing users to directly drill through any content.

If anyone happens to stumble across this page and knows where I should submit my ideas feel free to leave a comment.

• How to check what have installed in Debian/Ubuntu » Linux by Examples
  To check what have install by listing all using dpkg is easy.

  dpkg -l = same as rpm -qa

  (tags: ubuntu debian linux reference)
• CompileLinuxRPM – Box Backup – Trac
  It is very easy to build an RPM of Box Backup on Linux platforms. This should work on all Red Hat distributions (including Fedora), SuSE, and probably others too.

  Given that you have the correct development packages installed simply execute this command (replacing the version number):

  rpmbuild -ta boxbackup-0.00.tgz

  (tags: boxbackup reference rpm)
• Cacti Backup Shell Script
  Script to autobackup cacti – backups up mysql and cacti directories
  (tags: cacti mysql backup bash)
• HTTPD – Apache2 Web Server
  The mod_ssl module adds an important feature to the Apache2 server – the ability to encrypt communications.
  (tags: ubuntu tips ssl apache)
• mod_dnssd 0.5
  mod_dnssd is an Apache HTTPD module which adds Zeroconf support via DNS-SD using Avahi.
  (tags: bonjour avahi apache linux howto)

Bonjour for Windows Sucks! Why?

Recently I wanted to load balance a TCP service i.e. not http, in the past I’ve used ultramonkey but there doesn’t seem to be any maintained Redhat/Centos packages.

After some googling I found that haproxy can balance non-http services but examples of non-http configurations are few and far between, this blog post lead me to my solution, so after the jump I have a haproxy.cfg which will load balance smtp round-robin style across 4 servers, you also get a webstats interface listening on http://IP:8080/haproxy?stats (username = me, password = password).

By changing the port numbers from 25 (SMTP) you can effectively load balance any TCP app

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• Cisco Secure Access Control Server View – Products & Services – Cisco Systems
  Cisco Secure Access Control System (ACS) View provides the highest level of reporting, alerting, and troubleshooting functions for Cisco Secure ACS deployments. Providing maximum visibility into configured policies and authentication and authorization activities across the network, Cisco Secure ACS View is the ideal solution for organizations that require the greatest levels of reporting and control.
  (tags: cisco security acs authentication reporting RADIUS TACACS)

I’ve decided it was time for a change, and updated my tagline, my browser/html site still scrolls thru random rubbish, but those subcribed to my feed should see my new tag