Sep 252011
 

Unix based operating systems like Linux offer a unique approach to join two commands on the terminal, with it you can take the output of the first command and use it as input of the second command, this is the concept of pipe or | . Pipes allow two separate process to communicate with each other also if they were not created to do it, so this open an infinite series of opportunity.

A basic example is:

ls -l | grep rwxrwxrwx

This command will print the list of all the files in the local directory that have permission rwxrwxrwx (or that have rwxrwxrwx in their name).

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Sep 252011
 

Today we’ll take a look at a great Indie title Amnesia the Dark Descent, it’s been released 1 year ago, but i discovered it few days ago.
This is a Survival-horror game that has had a lot of success, is an expertly crafted tale of terror as well as searching that utilizes its active dynamics to enthrall players with a method that every tale should have.

The game is released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms and it costs $20, a fair price for what you get.
And once bought you have access to the download to all 3 platforms of this game.

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Sep 232011
 

Tails, version 0.8 has been released 2 days ago, with some updates on his main packages.
Tails stand for The Amnesic Incognito Live System, from the official site:

amnesiacnoun:
forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory.

incognitoadjective & adverb:
(of a person) having one’s true identity concealed.

Or i could say that this is a Debian tailored for anonymity and privacy, let’s see what this Live contains.
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Sep 222011
 

Those people who are acquainted with ancient Greek mythology will know with no doubt the word Cronus, he was the father of the Greek Olympian Gods.The word Chronos means time in Greek and Latin and thus from the two words we get the words chronometer and chronology. Therefore in the programming lingo crontab means something that deals with the time.

To make it short Cron is a daemon that executes scheduled commands.
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Sep 192011
 

Article by James Hawkins

This is the second part of our guide on Nmap, you can find the first part here, in this part of the tutorial we’ll see other configurations that you can use with Nmap to avoid firewalls or debug the information obtained.
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