1:11 PM
Growth of web 2.0 era make competition of software developer race to bring best performance and usability of website. Many of paltform such Adobe Flex, JavaFX, and Microsoft Silverlight competing to conquer programmer to use theirs product and bring rich internet application to the best performance of website. Especially in Linux/Ubuntu we have application called Moonlight to help running/displaying Microsoft Silverlight Application platform on linux/ubuntu desktop. Here step by step installing Moonlight add-on on Mozilla Firefox so that you can run Microsoft Silverlight in your Ubuntu 10.04 desktop.
- Choose the application platform, this platform is depend on what kind of operating system installed in your desktop, If you have 64bit proccessor but you had install 32bit operating system, wise for us to choose 32bit platform.
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| Choose the application platform |
- Download and install the Moonlight add-on to firefox, the Moonlight plugin has 3.8Mb size and need approximately 3 minute to be installed. When installing the Novell Moonlight plugin, Firefox may prevent the installation and present you with an information bar, to continue the installation click "edit option" and allow add-on to be installed.
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| Installing Moonlight add-on to Firefox |
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- If installation process has complate with no error, you have succesfull installed Moonlight add-on on your Mozilla Firefox, to start using this plugin restart the browser and you have Mozilla Firefox Silverlight friendly then.
- If you interest to compare the performance of Adobe Flex, JavaFX, and Microsoft Silverlight, i suggest you to visit this link to get explanation and ilustration.
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4:42 PM
Wine is a linux application which lets us to run windows application in Linux OS family, yesterday (16 july 2010) winehq has released new stable version of Wine 1.2, the development team has claimed almost 3.000 bugs fixed and more than 23.000 changes. here they are several change we found at wine 1.2 Stable. - Wine 1.2 support on x86-64 processors and also support for 64 bit applications.
- There are new icons for all the built-in applications based on the Tango set for a nicer integration with the native Unix desktop look.
- Smoth looking on LCD Screen, The subpixel configuration is derived from the system fontconfig and Xft settings.
- The OLE storage performance can degrade pretty badly on files with a particular layout.
That is simple way to installed wine 1.2 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, if you already have installed previous version of Wine you can upgrade using aptitude by following instructions below.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade wine
if want perform fresh install of wine 1.2, change "sudo apt-get upgrade wine" above with "sudo apt-get install wine".
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1:09 PM
OpenSUSE which Free/OpenSource version of Linux SUSE Enterprise, is various version of linux distro developed (supported) by novell. Yesterday (07/15/2010)
openSUSE has release openSUSE 11.3 Stable with support for 32-bit and 64-bit system. The new openSUSE 11.3 bring bright application named spideroak which can perform an online backup and file syncronizing trough internet for free, to get latest version of openSUSE can be downloaded in here.
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10:57 AM
Cisco Network is well perform network equipment and platform, there are many companys in the world entrust their network being handle by this instrument. A lot of advantages we get if we know much about this network equipment eventhough it's not simple way to learn more about all Cisco Netwok familly. Not only Microsoft, Java, or Oracle, Cisco System provide Cisco Netwok Career Certifications which provide profesional IT certification for Cisco System Product such us CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CCVP, and CCNA Security. There are five levels of certification: Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert, and Architect, as well as seven different paths, Routing & Switching, Design, Network Security, Service Provider, Storage Networking, Voice, and Wireless.
My personal opinion Cisco Netwok Career Certifications is not cheap, but it's very important for profesional network engginer to have it. get the best preparation is the best effort we can do. There are many network/cisco simulator in a market as we know Boson, Networksim and All official Network simulator form Cisco System that can be install in our desktop and we can learn from it.
GNS3 is sort of Graphical Network Simulator, GNS is Free/Opensource Cisco Network Simulator running on Ubuntu and Linux familly. GNS3 is other form of Dynamips and Dynagen which older cisco simulator for linux running on terminal. To complate simulations, GNS3 is strongly lingked with :
- Dynamips, the core program that allows Cisco IOS emulation.
- Dynagen, a text-based front-end for Dynamips. And
- Qemu, a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
That mean to start using GNS3 we must install application above, if you running ubuntu the fastest way to install GNS3 is go to System > Synaptics Package Manager > (type GNS3 as keyword) then Apply and install, all application needed to run GNS3 is automaticaly installed.
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| GNS3 Screenshot |
Before GNS3 is ready to use, download Cisco IOS from this page first then add Cisco IOS to Dynagen IOS library. Here they are Step By step how running Cisco Network Simulator on Ubuntu Linux : * Continue with following step when you have finished installing GNS3. - Download Cisco IOS in this page (chose only required IOS)
- Open GNS3, than add Cisco IOS to Dynagen IOS library. To add IOS to Dynagen go to menu edit > IOS images and Hypervisors, browse the images and fill all required information.
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| GNS3 Topology Example |
- Draw the topology you want to bulid by drag and drop router logo in the left side of GNS3 to the center of topology area.
- Configure the network, Configuring network can be start by connecting one router to another by the connector (Giga etheret, ATM, Fast ethernet), to edit router properties like RAM, Additional Pheriperal in Slot, Name or other can be accessed by right click the router then chose 'configure'. Just like the actual Cisco router we can telnet (remote) the router and doing all Cisco task and job like the real ones.
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| Router Properties |
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| Router Properties |
- to finish the topology, after all router has been configured well, check topology interconection by router utillity like 'ping' or 'traceroute' from one router to another.
And now we can start a better preparation to join profesional network certification from Cisco System, to expendite the practice download some Network Topology here.
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2:02 PM
FBlogger in draft special version of Blogger where the Blogger development team try out the new features before they release them to everyone, to access google in draft you can go to http://draft.blogger.com/, if you already have blogspot account or blog you can make this (draft.blogger.com) to your default dashboard. Blogger already have beautifful change based on google in draft and it's review, see what different from it's old version of Blogger.
Blogger Stat, Built-in blog statistics made blog monitoring as easy as Google Analytics Blogger stat is one of the the new feature of Blogger, Blogger Stat is built-in blogger tools for monitoring blog statistics and track your blog traffic, if you wanna start using this feature Just go to Blogger in Draft, and you'll notice a new "Stats" tab. You don't have to install or configure anything to start benefitting from Stats.
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| Blogger Stat of traffic inbound |
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| Blogger Stat show mount of visitor |
Better Way to Posting Article- As we see in blogger in draft, blogger has made a little change in how to compose a blog posting, blogger add some fancy tools which made way of blog posting easier, as we can see in blogger post editor toolbar there is one tools added namely 'translate'. I used to use google translate to help me to translating from english to indonesian or opposite, now i can little bit faster to search a strange vocabulary :p
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| New view of blogger in draft post editor toolbar |
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- Provide new way and view of insert picture utillity, google in draft serve new way of inserting picture in a posting. We can picture directly from Harddrive, Url, and Picasa (using account) complate with picture preview, with this utillity we can also inserting old picture we have been upload in the same blog before.
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| New way of inserting picture |
- Google in draft has complate it's change by add geographic location in a bottom of blogger posting editor, just click and type the location you want google will include the map in your posting.
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| Blogger in draft add geographic location |
Better Post Preview
Blogger in draft provide a better Post preview than the old ones, On the New Post page, click on the Preview button (this is a new button that we’ve just added), and you will see a new window open with the WYSIWYG preview of the post. This is how your blog post will appear to your readers when you hit publish, with the same format and style of your current Blogger theme.
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8:15 PM
Ubuntu One is the personal cloud service that simplifies your digital life. Ubuntu one is such application bundled with Ubuntu OS which help us to keep in touch by sharing, buying, searching, manage file, data or music with other people using internet, ubuntu one serve new experience of data sharing. Imagine buying music and getting it delivered to the computers of your choice or synchronizing your files and notes and accessing them from anywhere. Or consolidating your computer and mobile phone contacts and safely sharing documents and pictures with them. Ubuntu One can already do this and more (https://one.ubuntu.com/). To start using this service we can go to http://one.ubuntu.com/account then create new account (user & password) and follow the instructions or follow theh directions in this link. I thinks everyone agree if i call ubuntu one as a new way of digital data sharing, here there are some ubuntu one feature from the official website that underlaying my statement above :A personal cloud to store, sync, and share your files. Automatically store and sync your documents, images and media with your personal cloud and your other computers. Share folders with project collaborators or publish files with the worldSynchronize your bookmarks Ubuntu One Bookmarks (also called the Bindwood project) automatically synchronizes your Firefox bookmarks with your personal cloud and your other computers. You don't have to change anything about how you use bookmarks today because Ubuntu One works behind the scenes to keep everything in sync. Full Control with tomboy notes. Ubuntu One Notes is integrated with Tomboy, the notes application in Ubuntu, and automatically synchronize with your personal cloud and your other computers. You can also use the Ubuntu One website to browse and modify all of your notes.
Syncronize mobile contact
Ubuntu One now enables you to keep all of your address book contacts in sync with your mobile phone. No matter how many contacts you have, Ubuntu One will sync them all.
Buy, review, and listen new Music via Ubuntu One Music Store in Rhytmbox
Ubuntu one made buying music like easiest before, through rhytmbox we can search and browse the newest music album until the most rare music album collection you will never see in the market.
thats all my review of ubuntu one, for a conclution ubuntu (cononical) make a beautifull movement by this application don't be left behind then start using this amazing application :P.
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5:54 PM
Backtrack is the most attractive security tools now days, using this swish army knive (backtrack) we have more than 300 security tools which can be use to penetrate and evaluate network security in wired or wireless network. As my tutorial before in how to install backtrack on ubuntu 10.04 here the new guidance how to install Backtrack on USB Flash Drive. Before we start, it's better if you download the latest version of backtrack first here. Installing Backtrack on USB Flash Drive via Ubuntu
Using Ubuntu 10.04 you have a simplest way to make backtrack running on your USB Flash Drive, just prepare the backtrack .iso image then go to System > Administration > Startup Disk Creator.
Browse the backtrack iso in "Source disk image (.iso)", chose USB Flash Drive will be use in "Disk to Use" , Then make a bootable backtrack USB Flash Drive by "Make Start Disk". All of data in your flash Drive will not erase if you not click the tab "Erase Disk" and it's better if you prepare the Flash Drive in FAT file system
Installing Backtrack on USB Flash Drive via Windows Family
Before we start, clean all data in flash drive, then extract backtrack .iso/image file using winrar or other file extractor and copy all file into your USB Flash Drive (*note : don't copy including the folder, just file inside the folder). if all proccess complate go to terminal (cmd) then change directory into USB Flash Drive (cd) and execute bootinst.bat. If there is no error message while processing, congratulation you have backtrack running in your USB Flash Drive.
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12:01 PM
Disk utility is a important application in computing, disk utility is tools for formating, partitioning, and manage harddrive or removable storage such flash drive/disk drive. To manage harddrive mapping Ubuntu 10.04 provide a powerfull disk utility which defaultly installed named 'disk utility', to start using this program we can go to system > administration > disk utulity.
Ubuntu disk utility can do following activity : - Benchmark Harddrive and Removable Device
Utility to check how fast your storage to read and write data, you can use this utility to compare a performance form one to another.
Smart data would check and show us the disk healty using attribute and its assessement. using his utility we can llook after harddrive temperature and bad sectors.
This utility is for mount and unmount device.
- Check and repair filesystem
Utility for check and repair file system, some activity may cause lost of data, especialy for this action please backup your data
Edit partition is for resize partition, change a file system type, marge a multiple partition.
This action is for clean all partition table and schema in a partition then make a new one.
- Edit File System Label, and
This action is for rename a partition name or lable.
This action is for delete a partition table.
To do activity above just click the partition and chose operations to be performed, some point is the drive must be unactivated before start doing action above (*unmount).
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8:14 AM
Zekr Qur'an is the most special program among ubuntu repository for moeslem, zekr qur'an is free/opensource application for reading, listening, and studing of the holly qur'an. Trough zekr we can control the reading aya by aya, sura by sura, sajda by sadja or juz by juz. Using zekr we can translate qur'an to more than 10 language such us english, persia, russia, indonesia for another translation we can go to zekr web page http://zekr.org/quran/en/translations and download other translation. When i try this application i have one minus point, one point of zekr is to listen (pronounce) of qur'an we must connect to the internet, i think this reason happen because the huge mount of database. zekr qur'an is not defautly installed in ubuntu, to start using zekr we must install first trough synaptics or terminal by typing command "apt-get install zekr".
alhamdullilah, we have a qur'an in ubuntu, ubuntu is awesome !!!
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10:08 AM
Backtrack is such a linux distro (like ubuntu and fedora) specializing in computer/network security, BackTrack is
the
world’s
leading
penetration
testing
and
information
security
auditing
distribution.
With hundred
of
tools
pre installed
and
configured
to
run
out
of
the
box,
BackTrack
4
provides
a
solid
Penetration
testing
platform
‐
from
Web
application
Hacking
to
RFID
auditing
–
its
all
working
in
once
place. Even backtrack is a separately linux distro all of application inside of backtrack can be run under ubutu or other linux distribution such fedora or redhat. "How to run a backtrack application under ubuntu or other linux distro ?"
The guide bellow is the answer, follow the intructions bellow to add backtrack application/package in our database, so you can install or use it afterward.
- wget -q http://archive.offensive-security.com/backtrack.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -ok-
- sudo echo "deb http://archive.offensive-security.com pwnsauce main microverse macroverse restricted universe multiverse" > > /etc/apt/sources.list
- update package database by typing "apt-get update", wait until all proccess finish.
- open your synaptics, look "left side of your synaptics" 'you have backtrack application package now :)
if the list above can't work well, there is another instruction may help you : - echo deb http://repo.offensive-security.com/dist/bt4 binary/ >> /etc/apt/sources.list
export http_proxy="http://myproxyserver.com:8080"
wget http://repo.offensive-security.com/dist/bt4/binary/public-key && sudo apt-key add public-key && sudo aptitude update
links -dump http://repo.offensive-security.com/dist/bt4/binary/ | awk '{print $3}' | grep -i deb | cut -d . -f 1 > backtrack.txtfor i in $(cat backtrack.txt); do sudo aptitude -y install $i; done
Here the are a list of backtrack application/package can be used :
- BackTrack
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Enumeration
- BackTrack
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Tunneling
- BackTrack
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Bruteforce
- BackTrack
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Spoofing
- BackTrack
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Passwords
- BackTrack
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Wireless
- BackTrack
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Discovery
- BackTrack
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Cisco
- BackTrack
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Web
Applications
- BackTrack
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Forensics
- BackTrack
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Fuzzers
- BackTrack
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Bluetooth
- BackTrack
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Misc
- BackTrack
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Sniffers
- BackTrack
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VOIP
- BackTrack
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Debuggers
- BackTrack
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Penetration
- BackTrack
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Database
- BackTrack
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RFID
- BackTrack
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Python
- BackTrack
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Drivers
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10:51 AM
Some people ask 'how can i use program such us Internet Download Manager (IDM) in Linux ?'. Yes !!!, to get a file or download in internet is an absolute activity now days, by download manager/accelerator having download is more easy and fast, Here the 5 Recommended Linux Download Manager/Accelerator Program widely use in linux.
Multiget
MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader for Windows/Linux/BSDs/MacOs. It's programmed in C++ and has a GUI based on wxWidgets. It supports HTTP/FTP protocols which covers the requirements of most users. It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. It supports resuming downloads if the Web server supports it, and if you like, you can reconfig the thread number without stopping the current task. It's also support SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxy, ftp proxy, http proxy. (http://multiget.sourceforge.net/). Folow this link to download Multiget. Axel
In the previous version a axel is a command line download manager, but now having download with axel can be done under GUI, It can possible to do a multiple mirrors for a download using tihis application. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems. we can install axel by typing "apt-get install axel" in a terminal.
Aria2
Aria2 is a command line download manager. The transfer can be paused, resumed, queued and saved. It has a very user friendly GTK based GUI, and useful log consoles. Program supports CRC checking, HTTP proxy server, cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop, and can define specific file retrieving procedure for particular web servers. Aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent. to install aria2 you can type "apt-get install aria2" in your terminal.
Wget
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/). Wget is a default download application which is installed since we have install linux. Since ubuntu 9.10 we can download using wget under GUI, the program is named 'gwget download manager'.
Prozilla
ProZilla is a program that makes multiple connections and downloads a file in multiple parts simultaneously thus enhancing the download speed and downloading the file faster than a download with a single connection.prozilla is not official linux or ubuntu download manager, in my own opinion prozilla is quiet awesome
Eventually that's all my review and recommendation, hopefully it will be usefull and keep you comfortable of using linux. :)
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10:45 AM
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors, just set your coordinates and go. (stelarrium.org). Stellarium is application that can run both linux, windows, and Mac Os, especially in linux stellarium is not defaultly installed, to use and install stellarium on Ubuntu 10.04 is quiet easy just open your synaptic package manager and search using keyword 'stellarium' or go to this page to download source code (tar.gz).
This is some minimal setting and acknowledge start using stellarium :
Set the right location
Set your location first! The default location is Paris, France (unless someone has re-packaged Stellarium and changed the default). Press F6 or click on the appropriate icon in the left tool bar to open the Location Window.You can select your location by clicking on the map, by searching for a nearby city, or by entering your longitude, latitude and altitude manually by creating a new location. One way to determine your precise location anywhere in the world is the Stellarium Location Helper.
Look around
Use the mouse or arrow keys to look around.
Zooming in and zooming out
Use the page up and page down keys to zoom in and out. Zooming on nebulas or planets is very interesting...
Selecting objects
Use the left mouse button to select an object, the right button to deselect the object and middle mouse button or spacebar to center on the selected object.
Controlling time
J slows down or reverses speed, L increases time speed, and K makes time return to normal speed. You can also use the time control buttons in the lower right of the screen.
Play with the view options
Try clicking the buttons in the bottom toolbar, which will appear if you roll the mouse cursor over the status bar at the bottom left of the screen.
Opening the help menu
Press the F1 key for help.
Searching for an object by name
Press F3 to open the search window. You can type in the name of a star, planet, constellation or nebula. As you type a list of matching objects is shown. Pressing TAB selects the next item in the completion list. Press RETURN or click the button in the search window to go to the object.
klik here to see a complate stellarium screenshot.
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