I'll be submitting my highly detailed and commented mythtv tutorial sometime soon. I have setup the system a few times, and I'm going to write it down for ya'll.
Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack Tech Groupie writes 'The US
Computer Emergency Readiness
Team (CERT) has issued a
warning for what it calls
'active attacks' against
Linux-based computing
infrastructures using
compromised SSH keys. The
attack appears to initially
use stolen SSH keys to ...
Linux systems actively targeted using SSH key attacks The United States Computer
Emergency Readiness Team
(US-CERT) is warning Linux
users that they are being
actively targeted by attackers
using stolen SSH keys. Secure
Shell keys lock down
communication between two
networked devices. They are
often used ...
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Book Review: Linux Pocket Guide O'Reilly's latest entry in the
'Pocket' series, '', bills
itself as a 'quick reference
for experienced users and a
guided tour for beginners'.The
book can be broken down into
two logical sections. The
first 33 pages cover, in a
very quick and high-level ...
SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional Review I recently picked up a copy of
. I have never used or been
familiar with a SuSE product
before as I've only used
Mandrake, Red Hat, and a bit
of Debian. After using Red Hat
for a while I decided to
evaluate SuSE and I am now
sorry for not having tried it ...
Linux end-user summit planned The Linux Foundation on
Wednesday plans to announce an
event enabling Linux users to
interact with the Linux
community, including
high-level maintainers and
developers. The first Linux
Foundation End User
Collaboration Summit is
planned for October 13 to ...
Linux under attack: compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit The U.S. Computer Emergency
Readiness Team (CERT) has
issued a warning for what it
calls "active attacks" against
Linux-based computing
infrastructures using
compromised SSH keys.The
attack appears to initially
use stolen SSH keys to gain
access to a ...
Linux end-user summit planned The Linux Foundation on
Wednesday plans to announce an
event enabling Linux users to
interact with the Linux
community, including
high-level maintainers and
developers. The first Linux
Foundation End User
Collaboration Summit is
planned for October 13 to ...
Bill Clinton vows to back Obama Bill Clinton supports Barack
Obama as the US Democrats'
presidential candidate and Joe
Biden is formally nominated as
his running mate. ...
Russia faces fresh condemnation Seven of the world's top
industrialised nations deplore
Russia's decision to recognise
Georgia's breakaway regions. ...
Britain's happiest places mapped The most sparsely populated
county in Wales is Britain's
happiest place - but Edinburgh
the least happy, say
researchers. ...
Map highlights 'obesity hotspots' Shetland and parts of Wales
and north England are
Britain's obesity hotspots,
according to a map compiled
from GP records. ...
Man convicted of converting guns A man is found guilty of
converting replica submachine
guns into live weapons linked
to more than 50 shootings. ...
Arson attack house still 'unsafe' Police hope to be able to
enter the home of a missing
family that was destroyed in
an arson attack later, once it
is declared safe. ...
British workers 'fear job losses' More than one in 10 British
workers fear they will lose
their job in the next year
because of the economy, the
TUC says. ...
£50m appeal to keep Titian work Two UK galleries appeal for
£50m to buy a painting by
Italian Renaissance artist
Titian - estimated to be worth
£150m. ...
Livingstone to be Chavez adviser Former London mayor Ken
Livingstone is to work as a
consultant for Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez. ...
Mailbag 2 By strong>LG Staff/strong
br>strong>Editor's
Note/strong>br>
Cuneiform OCR source available
for linuxbr>
Playing With Sid : Apertium:
Open source machine
translationbr>
Apertium-transfer-tool info
requestbr>
[Apertium-stuff]
Apertium-transfer-tool info
requestbr> ...
2-Cent Tips By strong>LG Staff/strong
br>2-cent Tip: Caching in the
Shellbr> ...
News Bytes By strong>Deividson Luiz
Okopnik and Howard
Dyckoff/strong>br>Contents:br>
strong>News in
General/strong>br>
Xandros Buys Rival Linspirebr>
Red Hat Voted "Greenest"
Operating Systembr>
Kernel 2.6.26 Released with
New Virtualization Support,
KDBbr>strong>Conferences and
Events/strong>br>strong>Distro
...
Making a Slideshow-type MPEG1 Video with GNU/Linux By strong>bhaaluu/strong>p>
This tutorial is for users who
are interested in making an
MPEG1 video using GNU/Linux
and Free Open Source Software.
The process described is
partly automated with bash
shell scripts, but otherwise
still relies on handcrafting
the video frame by frame. You
are expected t ...
Recent Developments in the Phoenix Project By strong>Kishore A/strong>p>
When you conduct experiments
in modern Physics, the
equipment involved is often
complicated, and difficult to
control manually. Also,
precise measurement of time,
and fast and continuous
measurement of physical
quantities are often required.
Consequently, such experime ...
DNS source port randomisation By strong>Rick
Moen/strong>p>em>[RM note:
This article is excerpted from
the middle of a mailing list
discussion, two weeks after
the now-infamous a
href="http://www.doxpara.com/?
p=1162">DNS security bug/a>
emerged, and hours after
security consulting firm
Matasano Security's blog
"Matasano Charge ...
Populating a Filesystem with Random Data By strong>René
Pfeiffer/strong>p>
Occasionally, I test
filesystems. Especially since
Ext4 was taken into the Linux
kernel, I've set up a couple
of partitions and used them
for storing data. Sometimes,
you don't want to copy
existing data on new
filesystems when testing. Why
not use random dat ...
Joey's Notes: Basic Networking and IP Forwarding By strong>Joey
Prestia/strong>p> Linux is a
networking powerhouse. It can
act as a DHCP server, a
network router, a simple
client, a gateway, a bridging
firewall -- well, you get the
idea. To accomplish these
tasks - indeed, to make it to
work at all - there are
several key files that must be
config ...
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