In this article i’ll show you how to select the best mirror for your favorite distribution.
Debian Netselect-apt is very helpful to find which Debian mirror is the fastest one to download the latest packages or to install ones very quickly.
To install it :
root@localhost:~# apt-get install netselect-apt
This package needs netselect to work successfully. neselect-apt will download the list of Debian mirrors and will ping them in a special manner thanks to the netselect command.
Yesterday I’ve attended the Nagios World Conference Europe hosted in Bozen (Italy) by Wurth-Phoenix, so as first thing thanks to Wurst-Phoenix for the organization this meeting, for the free access provided to the event , and for the good meal that we have enjoyed.
These are some notes I’ve took during the meeting.
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While i was surfing the net i’ve found this article By Matteo Ferrone about Linux signals, that i want to repost:
A signal is an event sent by the kernel to a running program.
The signals can arrive at any time and software can choose what to do when it arrives: it can decide to ignore it or may decide to execute a signal handler and continue with what he did.
There are 31 different signals, and you can see them with:
kill -l
Of these there are 6 to be known by system administrators:
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The news today is that Microsoft seem to be in the process of buying has bought Skype for something around $8.5 billion.
So what will happen to Linux support for Skype ? No one knows it at the moment but I can imagine nothing too good, in the best scenario, that I can imagine at the moment, the new Skype servers are still open to Linux clients, but the support on our operating system is left back and over some time using Skype on Linux become almost impossible.
But perhaps it’s better to talk to something else…what do you know about XMPP/Jingle ? Continue reading »
The Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a ISO live CD/DVD (NST Live) based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86/x86_64 platforms.
The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 100 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit.
Some of the tools available in this live are: Ntop, wireshark, nmap with the vizualization tool ZenMap and kismet.
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