This Linux tutorial covers TCP/IP networking, network administration and system configuration basics. Linux can support multiple network devices. The device names are numbered and begin at zero and count upwards. For example, a computer running two ethernet cards will have two devices labeled /dev/eth0 and /dev/eth1. Linux network configuration, management, monitoring and system tools are covered in this tutorial.
LivingSocial Now At 5,000 Employees, Half The Size Of Groupon
A few days ago, at the DLD conference, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason revealed that his three-year-old daily deal company now has 10,000 employees, with about 70 percent overseas. What about LivingSocial, the No. 2 daily deal company? Tim O’Shaughnessy told me yesterday the company is now at 5,000 employees worldwide, with “just under half” in the U.S.
via LivingSocial Now At 5,000 Employees, Half The Size Of Groupon | TechCrunch.
Bringing A Startup Together: FounderDating Launches Matching Site, Expands To NY, Boston, LA
So far, FounderDating has been going well. ”The more we talk to people, the more demand we see” Alter says. “Incubators are sending applicants to it who need cofounders, saying things like ‘come back when you have one.’” A couple examples of successful matches include the team behind Y Combinator-backed referral platform Curebit, and inventory matchmaking site Sorced (whose cofounder, Elizabeth Knopf, has a longer post about the experience over on Women 2.0)
WordPress Plugin Unblocks Censored Sites, Including The Pirate Bay
WordPress Plugin Unblocks Censored Sites, Including The Pirate Bay | TorrentFreak.
The plugin is developed by the hosting company Greenhost and allows everyone with a WordPress blog to start a proxy for sites that are censored elsewhere in the world. As an example, Greenhost have setup a Pirate Bay and Wikileaks proxy.
OpenGroupware Coils
OpenGroupware Coils is a Python port of the venerable OpenGroupware project. It is backward compatible and can be installed in parallel with legacy versions of OpenGroupware.
OpenGroupware Applications
The free software solution for team communication.
Made for companies, government institutions, distributed project teams and everyone, who has to access important information independend of location or time.
Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn’t
Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn’t — Engadget.
Back in 2010, the US Copyright Office added a set of anti-circumvention exemptions to the DMCA, effectively making it legal for smartphone users to jailbreak and/or root their devices. These exemptions, however, were never made permanent and now, they’re about to expire. The EFF doesn’t want this to happen, which is why it’s decided to launch a campaign dedicated to the jailbreaking cause. With this initiative, the EFF is hoping to convince the Copyright Office to renew its exemptions and expand them to a wider range of devices, including tablets and video game consoles.
RealVNC – VNC® remote control software
RealVNC provides remote control software which lets you see and interact with desktop applications across any network.
Linux vendors rush to patch privilege escalation flaw after root exploits emerge
According to Carsten Eiram, the chief security specialist at vulnerability research firm Secunia, the flaw was introduced in the Linux kernel code in March 2011 and affects versions 2.6.39 and above. “Any Linux distributions providing these kernel versions should be vulnerable,” Eiram said.
Fedora 14 is stuck on 2.6.35 something. This shouldn’t affect CentOS builds either. Sometimes it’s beneficial not to upgrade the OS!
Symantec ‘fesses up: ‘Code theft worse than we thought’
A hacker calling himself “Yama Tough”, acting as a spokesperson for the group, claims the source code had been pulled from insecure Indian government servers, implying that Symantec was required to supply their source code to Indian authorities. In a series of Twitter updates, Yama Tough talked about various plans to release the source code before committing to release the secret sauce of pcAnywhere.
via Symantec ‘fesses up: ‘Code theft worse than we thought’ • Channel Register.
Even so the whole Symantec hack soap opera/pantomime (‘You’ve been hacked!”, “Oh no we haven’t”… “Oh maybe we have”) raises serious questions about the security of Symantec’s ecosystem as well as turning the security giant into the punchline for jokes. For example, famed Apple hacker Charlie Miller quipped: “How could Symantec have gotten hacked? Don’t they use AV?” ®