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IT Management Linux News for Jun 12, 2008
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Run a Business Network on Linux: Intrusion Detection (Part 4) (2008-06-12 22:00:47)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "In our first two
installments on intrusion detection (see Resources), we got as far
as setting up a Snort sensor on our network. Now it's time to set
it up to automatically collect new rulesets, and set up BASE (Basic
Analysis and Security Engine) to present all that data in a nice
digestible way with graphs and sorting tools."
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Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications (2008-06-12 21:15:47)
Linux Journal: "One of the biggest arguments
used against Linux in grade school level education is that we
aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the
"real world". As the Technology Director for a K-12 school
district, I've heard that argument many times. After all these
years, I still don't buy it. Truthfully, to really give kids a well
rounded education, we should expose them to as many different types
of technology as we can."
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Tips for Your Users: Passwords You Can Live With (2008-06-12 20:30:47)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "People have a
tendency to pick horrible passwords. After all, it's something they
know, and if they don't tell anyone, it's secure. Long, long ago
passwords based on names or dictionary words were ousted as trivial
to guess. Automated password guessing attempts run all the
time.
Last week, I mentioned why it's important to change passwords
frequently and disable old accounts. We also spent a great deal of
time on the concept of publicly accessible authentication services.
Every enterprise service exposed to the world is a vulnerability
waiting to be exploited, or at least it can be used to run
password-guessing attacks on. The importance of password strength
cannot be stressed enough."
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Using Chkconfig To Manage Linux Service Run Levels (2008-06-12 19:45:47)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Even so, I'm
always impressed with ways to make this sort of setup easier.
Especially when it comes to manipulation of start and stop (init)
scripts that come with system software. Solaris' mish-mosh of hard
and soft linked run level scripts can be a headache, for sure, but
Redhat, Fedora and other Linux flavours can be a bit of a pain, as
well. The main problem I run into is making a customized change
that ends up getting overwritten by an RPM upgrade or things of
that nature."
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The Power of Plasma theming - a gallery of 23 themes (2008-06-12 18:15:47)
Liquidat: "One of the most often mentioned
concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma
would force the user to have a black panel. While we did have a
second machine showing another theme to resolve all doubts it
showed that not all users now yet the power of Plasma theming."
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Red Hat's RHX: Lessons learned (2008-06-12 17:30:47)
The Open Road: "We are just beyond the first
year anniversary of RHX, Red Hat's program for open source software
vendors. Rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. RHX is
different now. The team is smaller and the target market is
different; but, fundamentally, RHX is smarter. It's very much alive
and is undergoing its third iteration. We've learned a lot along
the way.
RHX LESSON 1: You don't fully understand a problem until you try
to implement the solution. [1]"
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Three UK 3G modem in Ubuntu Linux (2008-06-12 16:45:47)
Polish Linux: "I have recently bought a Huawei
E220 HSDPA access device (or a so-called "3G modem") from Three UK.
In this article I'll share with you my experiences of using Three
3G modem in Ubuntu Linux distribution. And don't worry, it works
just fine."
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Open Source Tour of Europe: Russia (2008-06-12 16:00:47)
451 CAOS Theory: "Given that open source
software is essentially a communist plot to undermine America and
the global software industry (joke) you'd expect Russia to be one
of the most proactive adopters of open source software..."
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Firefox Download Day Set (2008-06-12 15:15:47)
Practical Technology: "Mark June 17th on your
calendars Firefox and open source fans. That's the day when the
Mozilla Corp. is going to release Firefox 3 and try to set a new
world record for downloads of a single product in one day."
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One small lawsuit for Red Hat, One big legal step for open source (2008-06-12 14:30:47)
Practical Technology: "Red Hat announced the
settlement of patent litigation involving Firestar Software and
DataTern on June 11th. Yadda, yadda. Another day , another patent
lawsuit settled. Where the script changes is that Red Hat's
settlement covers not just its programs, but any open-source
programs connected with the settlement."
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Debian GNU/Linux powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer (2008-06-12 13:45:47)
DebianWiki: "A team of scientists at the Max
Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics have created Germany's
4th largest supercomputer by using Debian GNU/Linux.The massive
computing effort necessary for this research is provided by a
Debian GNU / Linux cluster of 1342 nodes called ATLAS. Using 10+ TB
RAM, approximately 1.3 PB storage and a special network able to
transfer almost 4 days worth of DVD movies each second, the cluster
achieves a measured performance of 32.8 TFlops. This performance
places the ATLAS Debian GNU / Linux supercomputer at 4th place in
Germany, 11th in Europe and 34th worldwide, at a cost of EUR 1.8m
(~ US$ 2.8m)."
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