Jun 182011
 

ssh Today I present another excellent article by Domenico Raffaele originally presented in his blog (in Italian) where you can find many other interesting articles about hacks and VoIP. This is his second article about ssh.

Here you’ll see some example of SSH Port Forwarding, sometimes called SSH Tunneling, which allows you to establish a secure SSH session and then tunnel arbitrary TCP connections through it. Tunnels can be created at any time, with almost no effort and no programming, which makes them very appealing.

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Jun 182011
 

languagesI’ve found this funny article by Mike Vanier.

This is an update to an old series of jokes about computer languages being like cars. I’ve added some more modern languages to the list. Any suggestions are welcome!

  • Ada is a tank. A butt-ugly tank that never breaks down. People laugh uncontrollably if you tell them you drive Ada, but really, do you want to be driving a sports car in a war zone? [from Amit Dubey]
  • Assembly Language is a bare engine; you have to build the car yourself and manually supply it with gas while it’s running, but if you’re careful it can go like a bat out of hell.[From “Subterfug” off digg.com:]Assembly Language: you are the car.

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Jun 182011
 

firewallI use iptables by many years and used it also for complex solutions and only recently i’ve discovered ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall), the ubuntu version, or better developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, ufw provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. By default UFW is disabled.
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Jun 152011
 

promogestI’ve received from Francesco Meloni a PR about Promogest a management program for small business totally released under GPL, and so I gladly present this software to you.

PromoGest is a management program for your business. Developed by PromoTUX a leading Italian company in the industry.
Written using open source software is licensed under the GPL. The basic version is freely downloadable and freely usable without any license restrictions. It handles superbly customer lists, supplier and all the generation and movement of documents. For specific features or to customize the print model will, however, necessary to activate specific modules.
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