Extend your Arduino

Extend your Arduino

Adding Ethernet, WiFi and Other Communications to Your Arduino (Or Other PIC) – Including the NSLU2 Author: John Smitty The Arduino is a small programmable device that can hold a small program and perform tasks such as reading temperature sensors, turning on or off switches, and can even serve as the ‘brain’ for a robot. […]

Ubuntu, Launchpad and PPA

Ubuntu, Launchpad and PPA

One interesting thing about Ubuntu is that you can follow on launchpad the bug presents in the packages of the distribution, see the progress and contribute to testing PPA on your Ubuntu installation and giving feedback back. But let see this process in detail and how each of us can help the community. Launchpad, developed […]

Introduction to snort

Introduction to snort

Installing and using SNORT on Ubuntu Author: Mike Walton Snort is a very powerful IDS that in later versions can act like an IPS. Snort is free to download and use in the personal enviornment as was as in the business environment. In fact Snort is used by many Enterprises as a very effective option for […]

From RS232 to the Web

From RS232 to the Web

Automatically Capturing, Saving and Publishing Serial RS232 Data to the Web Author: John Smitty This article will describe setting up a system that will utilize a lightweight command line (CLI) install of Linux (Ubuntu in this example) to capture RS232 (serial) information, capture it and upload it to an ftp server. This is useful for […]