Notes, fixes and guides.
Sixteen years of working notes on Linux and networking, Django and Laravel deployment, SwiftUI and AWS. Written down mostly so I can find them again.
DoS Vulnerability Apache HTTP requests
Recently published a pretty big vulnerability for Apache 1.x and 2.x pass Squid.The vulnerability is Intentionally incomplete HTTP requests and this makes the server open a connection waiting…
Ubuntu accepts Mono
Returning to the controversy over whether or not to add Mono by default in Linux distributions, as a message to the lists of ubuntu reads: "A common concern…
Fedora 11: Now play MP3, DVD videos and avi files
Open a terminal and become root using 'su'.Now type at terminal these commands to make your fedora play multimedia files.# rpm -Uvh…
GRUB 2 now default for new installations ,ubuntu 9.10
As of tomorrow's daily builds, GRUB 2 will be the default boot loader for new installations.They do not expect to be changing the boot loader for existing installations,…
Configuring wireless card for acer aspire one in Ubuntu 8.10
Recently I configured the wireless card in an acer aspire one, on a ubuntu 8.10 include, for the ubuntu version 9.04 it is recognized by default, well, at…
How to install iceweasel 3.5 in Debian Lenny stable
To install iceweasel 3.5 in debian lenny you need to do the following steps:Iceweasel 3.5 installation on debian lenny1. Add the debian repositories testing and experimental:# echo deb…
iotop : Howto find the disk usage of each process in ubuntu linux
You can use the utility "iotop" to find out the "disk usage of each process" running on your system.Type this command at terminal to install "iotop" on your…
Google Chrome OS to be launched in the second half of 2010
Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS in the second half of 2010, an operating system designed from the ground up to run the Chrome web browser…
Bug #376879: grub2 installer modifies grub 0.97 menu.lst incorrectly and fails to chainload grub2
It was discovered on Jaunty. After installing grub2, it modifies the currently installed grub 0.97 menu.lst configuration file to chainload grub2 to allow one to test grub2 before…
Install and test grub2
"Grub2" is a replacement for grub, which has been claiming to be the replacement for it for some years. Switching to "grub2" would bring support for newer systems,…
Gimpshop: photoshop in ubuntu linux
Work with the images as you do it in "photoshop in ubuntu using gimpshop". GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program…
Improve browsing with Firefox using greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is an add-on or plugin for your web browser "firefox" that allows us to install some scripts to improve our productivity on the sites that we visit.How…