Official Google Blog: "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!

Official Google Blog: "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!

Great Linux article

Here is a great Linux article on blogs.zdnet.com:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/wp-trackback.php?p=156

It talks about the lack of ad campaigns on TV for Linux.
The Linux Foundation is sponsoring a “We’re Linux” video contest for uses to express what Linux means to them.

The grand prize is a trip to Tokyo for the Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009.
Pretty cooooool ...

Anyone submit a video?
Leave a comment with a link!

Fedora 10

I see a lot of traffic coming to by blog by people searching for "Fedora 10 Dell 1520".
So I thought I would ask the question... What information are you looking for?
I will try to answer all questions, or point you in the right direction.

So go ahead and post a comment with your question.

Best VPN software

Which VPN software is the best. I'm thinking about setting up a VPN for my home network and wanted to get some input from others who are running a VPN server.

Ive heard openVPN is good.

Any suggestions?

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail

Official Google Blog: Raising data privacy awareness

Official Google Blog: Raising data privacy awareness

Official Google Blog: A look back at spam in 2008

Official Google Blog: A look back at spam in 2008

Official Google Blog: The Pope on YouTube

Official Google Blog: The Pope on YouTube

Linux quick tip

Here's a neat tip I read about in the January 2009 Issue 177 of Linux Journal.

Using netstat with the -tpe flags to monitor programs that are making connections to remote hosts.

-t limits output to TCP connections
-p displays the PID and name of the program
-e displays extra information

Sample:
# netstat -tpe
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode PID/Program name
tcp 0 180 10.10.10.9:ssh 10.10.10.8:exlm-agent ESTABLISHED root 11831 2811/sshd: kpb [pri
tcp 0 0 10.10.10.9:39383 yx-in-f104.google.com:http ESTABLISHED kpb 13586 3023/elinks
tcp 0 0 10.10.10.9:49349 cg-in-f100.google.com:http ESTABLISHED kpb 13577 3023/elinks

Linux command of the week

Linux command of the week

convert

Convert is a great command for resizing images.

I needed to change the size of some images for a web server I was working on this past week. I needed to cut the size of the file down so the page would load faster.

eg $ convert -resize 50% file1.jpg file1.jpg

It can also be used to change the file type

eg $ convert file1.jpg file1.png

For more options see the man pages


The Fedora 11 release name ...

Leonidas

Voting Period: 05 January 2009 08:00:00 UTC to 09 January 2009 23:59:59 UTC

1. Leonidas 1108
*****
2. Indomitable 1054
3. Claypool  944
4. Brasília  890
5. Blarney  890
6. Duchess  838
7. Zampone  716
8. Euryalus  713

Openssl Security Update CVE-2008-5077

Openssl has released a security update for anyone using releases prior to 0.9.8j.

To get the update for Fedora:

yum update openssl

for more information see the following link:
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090107.txt