Penetration tools – sing

Sing is almost the same like ‘ping‘. It’s a tool to send ICMP packets. The different is ‘sing’ can customize the sent packets with adding certain enhancements (Fragmentation, spoofing….). Sing stands for ‘Send ICMP Nasty Garbage‘. There is no documentation available for ‘sing’ at the moment. It’s made by Alfredo Andres (aandres@s21sec.com) using C. License [...]

Read Full Post »

Youtube downloader – New Pytube version

Pytube is one of the best youtube downloader available for Linux. Of course, you can’t compare to Azureus that run in Mac which is much more advanced. But, with the new version of pytube (0.0.10.4), I’m sure that it will lead as the best down loader available for Linux at the moment. You can download [...]

Read Full Post »

Linux and Ubuntu Counter – Register your Linux and your Ubuntu

Sometimes, when you visit a Linux blog, you see something like below: Registered Ubuntu User #16660 Registered Linux User # 462798 What is it? It’s the Ubuntu Counter Project which is like a miniature version of The Linux Counter. It aims to catalog the number of registered machines using the numerous variants of the Ubuntu [...]

Read Full Post »

Apache2 Web server

What is Web Server? Before we go to that question, it’s better if we know what is web. Actually, web is only a file or document in HTML format which is transferred from 1 computer (server) to a computer (client) which requests that file/document. To read a web document you need a web client application. [...]

Read Full Post »

Alien – Convert RPM to DEB or DEB to RPM

Alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats. When do you need Alien? At the time you want to install a program meanwhile the only package available is from another linux distribution. For an example, your linux package is Red Head Package [...]

Read Full Post »

How to have a transparent root terminal?

Open your root terminal. Applications > Accessories > Terminal or Alt-F2 and type ‘gnome-terminal‘. Then goto to Edit > Current Profile > Effects and change the value at ‘Transparent background‘. You can also change the color of the font foreground and background. So, you will have a better display.    

Read Full Post »

Not enough space at my External Hard disk

I got this problem when I try to back up my data from my laptop today. Suddenly, I got not enough space message. FYI, my external Hard disk is Maxtor Personal One Touch 100GB. So, I checked the hard disk space left. taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ cd /media taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ ls cdrom cdrom0 Maxtor sda1 sda2 taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ df -h [...]

Read Full Post »

VariCAD2007 – Autocad in Linux

I’m not an architect and I don’t know any thing about architecture. I found this application when I try find a AutoCAD Viewer in Linux. I’m building a house and my architect emails me the blue print in ‘.dwg’ format. So, here it is. VariCAcad2007 is CAD program that run on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Linux (DEB and [...]

Read Full Post »