Jun 102011
 

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

I’ve already wrote about unusual use of ssh. I want to return to this topic fascinating and almost unknown, once again, and I promise I will not be the last.

X11Forwarding

Since time immemorial (in the scale of computing eras), is common practice to launch remote applications (Xclients) in a graphical environment, but using them from local (Xserver).

Consider the need to scan the internal network to which it belongs remote server2, which can be accessed remotely via ssh.

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Jun 092011
 


ipv6 ready OK, i’m 1 day late but now also http://linuxaria.com is IPv6 ready.

1 day late for what ?

Yesterday was the WORLD IPV6 DAY, but i’m sure that you have noticed it, i saw a lot of news about it in many Tech-related news sites.

Now linuxaria.com is hosted on a VPS on Linode and i must say that the setup it’s been “enough” easy, the more problems i got come from nginx, mainly for my lack of knowledge of IPv6 and this web server.
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Jun 082011
 

tux-terminalEveryone knows (and loves) grep, I’ve also wrote an article on it, but today we’ll see other small utility that have some things in common with it.

In particular I’ll show you: pgrep, grepcidr, ngrep, pdfgrep and taggrepper.

All are command line tools to be used with your favorite shell, I’ll show you some example for every command.
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Jun 042011
 

tux-terminalSometimes is useful to run over and over again the same command until something happen, for example you could do a ls -lrt until a file has reached a certain dimension or is created, how to do it ?
Sure you can use bash history and use up arrow and return over and over again, or perhaps write some line of bash to get an infinite loop that run the same command, but there is a smarter approach to this : watch .
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Jun 022011
 

EkigaIn a former article I’ve talked about the XMPP:Jingle protocol to find a good replacement for Skype.
Some people asked me about Ekiga, is this a good software or not ? and how you can use it ?

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet.
It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality.
It is interoperable with many other standard compliant softwares, hardwares and service providers as it uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323).
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