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Recover data with your Linux is no longer a problem thanks to Test Disk and PhotoRec!

May 272012

Article by Giuseppe Sanna

Your beloved son, while heading back from a wonderful holiday, has magically overcome all the intricate steps of the camera and was able to remove hundreds of photos of the entire trip? Have you carelessly formatted an hard disk? Have you corrupted the file system of a SD card or USB stick? Wow! They are all very unpleasant situations … Situations that have made put you in trouble ! Today, thanks to two simple tools, we will see how to retrieve all the lost data, or at least those recoverable …

OpenVAS – Open Source Vulnerability Scanner

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May 212012

I thank Maurizio Pagani for allowing me to publish and translate his interesting presentation, published on http://babel.it.

OpenVAS is a framework that includes services and tools for scanning and the complete managment of vulnerability.
A vulnerability scanner is a tool that allows you to scan a target system (IP/HOSTNAME) based on a range of ports and a set of policies. The tool is supported by a database that is used from the vulnerability scanner to analyze possible problems whenever you find a listening service. The tool that scans receives daily updates from the database Network Vulnerability Tests “NVTs”.
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A look at luckyBackup

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May 192012

Article by Christian, first published on: http://www.linuxludus.it/ in Italian.

In our daily activities we may have to manage multiple files from different locations, from which, every now and then edit them. It can also arise the need to synchronize folders over the network and often we do not know how to do it, luckybackup may be the solution for you, a convenient graphical interface for a powerful command line tool like rsync. Continue reading »

How to split Varnish log for Virtual host

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May 162012

Varnish is a great tool that accelerates the performance of your site with a simple configuration and a low usage of resources, compared to the result you’ll get. Just because Varnish is designed and engineered to be fast by default it does not write any log to disk, outrageous you could think … to be honest the logs are available in a memory segment when this memory is filled, Varnish starts from the beginning and overwrites the oldest data in an infinite loop.

So in reality there are logs and they are available for some time, and this solution is much, much faster then logging to a file and it doesn’t require disk space, but how we can get them on file, possibly divided by virtual host as do Apache or Nginx ?
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Tips and Tricks for Nginx

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May 052012

Nginx is an emerging Web server (it claims to power around 12% of the website) and is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

Personally I’m using it from 2010 and so far so good, no particular problems, it does perfectly his work and is frequently updated by the developers, I’m really happy of how is performing on my VPS and in this time I’ve learnt some small tricks and tips that perhaps could save you some time in the future.

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