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Fixing the jre issue in Firefox 3.6
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When I attempted to install Java after installing Firefox 3.6, it didn't work anymore. There's now a different file to link to in the browser plugins directory. Here's the page I found to get it working properly:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/
Starting from scratch
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If you've looked at several Linux distributions, but you just can't find one that's right for you, and maybe you'd like to compile it all yourself without using a source-based distribution, or you want to get an understanding of how Linux really works, then Linux from Scratch (LFS) is for you.Simple way to Foil the Hacker
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I attended the TALUG meeting focusing on Linux security last weekend (May 17, 2008). The presenter offered several techniques for securing our Linux boxen. One technique was to simply change the default port for SSH connections.
After the meeting I made the change from the default port 22. Now that a few days have passed, I decided to examine the logs to see what effect this has made on my firewall. These logs are from our company firewall, which is an OpenBSD box named Fred..
I grabbed a log file generated a few weeks ago named authlog.7.gz. I copied it to the home directory and gunzipped it.
The information contained in the log was generated during the following date range.
[root@Fred ~]$ head -n 1 authlog.7; tail -n 1 authlog.7
Mar 26 10:00:01 Fred newsyslog[25227]: logfile turned over
Apr 2 10:00:01 Fred newsyslog[24528]: logfile turned over
Here's an excerpt from this log showing hacker attempts.
Meeting Postscript 10/09
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I walked into the meeting thinking, "Since I'm not really a programmer, I'm going to be bored stiff." Boy was that notion challenged by the presentation. It was tremendously enlightening to learn what happens in the background when compiling from source. There is much more to it than I initially thought. I'm pretty much a nuts-&-bolts type of guy; I learned a lot - and will retain more once the presentation is added to the site.
Although it was advertised, the pgp key-signing party didn't happen, but I'm sure it will be planned again soon. I generated a new key for it. Oh well, life goes on.
It was tremendously encouraging to see all the new faces. We had 11 show up - and about half of them were faces I've never seen before - including the presenter. He is our new secretary. Personally, I look forward to working with him.
As is customary, the most important conversation happened, and we selected Ipoh as our post-meeting meeting place. A great time was had by myself... and the black pepper scallops - as always were tremendously good.
This concludes my report.
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