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Official Google Blog: Celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2009

2009-10-21T20:58:00.000-04:00

Official Google Blog: Celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2009

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

2009-07-08T10:12:00.000-04:00

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Twitter Blog: Twitter Web Traffic Around the World

2009-06-03T19:51:00.000-04:00

Twitter Blog: Twitter Web Traffic Around the World

Official Google Blog: Supporting students in open source software development

2009-04-10T22:49:00.001-04:00

Official Google Blog: Supporting students in open source software development

Official Google Blog: Send a video message with Google Latitude

2009-04-10T22:49:00.000-04:00

Official Google Blog: Send a video message with Google Latitude

Official Google Blog: Enhanced Gmail and Calendar web app for iPhone and Android

2009-04-09T15:25:00.000-04:00

Official Google Blog: Enhanced Gmail and Calendar web app for iPhone and Android

Florida Linux Show 2009

2009-02-26T19:17:00.000-05:00

The Florida Linux show is here again.
I didn’t make it last year I am hoping to make it this year.

http://www.floridalinuxshow.com/

Florida Linux Show 2009 JACKSONVILLE
March 9, 2009
UNF University Center
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

and

Florida Linux Show 2009 ORLANDO
October 26, 2009
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Anyone in the Central Florida area attenting?

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Linux command of the week

2009-02-23T19:42:00.002-05:00

Check out my new blog where I will be posting, http://blog.biggsk.net.

http://blog.biggsk.net/?p=160

wc

wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

Which is useful for comparing line, word, and character count of files

[kpb@localhost ~]$ wc *.txt
3 6 29 test1.txt
5 10 49 test.txt
8 16 78 total

The first column is line count
The second column is word count
The third line is character count

You can also use it to get a byte count of a file:

[kpb@localhost ~]$ wc -c test.txt
49 test.txt

See the man pages for more info

Previous commands of the week:
http://blog.biggsk.net/?p=114

Stuff on new on new blog

2009-02-18T15:32:00.001-05:00

Linux command of the week:
http://blog.biggsk.net/?p=132

New blog coming soon...

2009-02-15T19:31:00.001-05:00

I'm launching a new website/blog http://blog.biggsk.net/

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

2009-01-31T14:58:00.000-05:00

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

Great Linux article

2009-01-28T18:05:00.002-05:00

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

2009-01-28T17:14:00.002-05:00

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

2009-01-28T16:55:00.001-05:00

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

2009-01-28T10:39:00.000-05:00

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail

Official Google Blog: Raising data privacy awareness

2009-01-28T06:57:00.000-05:00

Official Google Blog: Raising data privacy awareness

Official Google Blog: A look back at spam in 2008

2009-01-26T14:15:00.000-05:00

Official Google Blog: A look back at spam in 2008

Official Google Blog: The Pope on YouTube

2009-01-25T20:05:00.000-05:00

Official Google Blog: The Pope on YouTube

Linux quick tip

2009-01-13T19:16:00.006-05:00

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

2009-01-11T12:51:00.006-05:00

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 ...

2009-01-10T22:39:00.001-05:00

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

2009-01-09T08:43:00.002-05:00

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

Major security flaw in Internet Explorer !!

2008-12-17T10:21:00.005-05:00

I just came across this article on Yahoo!Tech:
Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch

Security experts are recommending that users switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari as they are not affected.

This vulnerability affects Internet Explorer version 5 though 8 beta.

More information here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Linux command of the week

2008-12-17T07:37:00.010-05:00

I was working on my system today and was wondering, "How can I see the differences between two files?"

Well, the answer is ... the diff command.

The diff command will show you the differences between 2 files and the line numbers of where the two files differ.

eg $ diff file1 file2

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Official Google Blog: Net neutrality and the benefits of caching

2008-12-15T20:28:00.001-05:00

Official Google Blog: Net neutrality and the benefits of caching