Axiomatic Breakfast

Ubuntu Unleashed: has a good collection of useful security tools available for linux. Lots of standard items there and an few new ones I haven’t used before. Good for reference. Ubuntu Unleashed: The Top Security Tools in the Ubuntu Repositories you may not know about with 1 click Installation

Here is a collection of security tools that you should look through to add to your arsenal to help keep the peace on your pc/network or unleash war on others for whatever reason.

A couple quick UNIX command line tips from 2 Lifehacker articles.

The first article is Ctrl+R to search and other terminal history tricks
Excerpt:

In the terminal, hold down Ctrl and press R to invoke “reverse-i-search.” Type a letter - like s - and you’ll get a match for the most recent command in your history that starts with s. Keep typing to narrow your match. When you hit the jackpot, press Enter to execute the suggested command.

The second article is Review your most oft-used UNIX commands
Excerpt:

Use the built in history tool to review what programs you use the most, using this command:
history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r

Nerdica » Building a BitTorrent Box

Excerpt:

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set a small headless Ubuntu server used to retrieve BitTorrent files, while even saving them to a external USB hard drive that can be disconnected on the go. You even discover how to remotely administer your server from the Web using SSH, VNC, and an inuitive HTML UI, while being able to retrieve files while you’re away from home.

Eric Raymond is one of the most vocal Linux Advocates out there. He recently posted a “response to SCO’s accusations that IBM is behind all the anti-SCO sentiment”:http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2003_08_17_armedndangerous_archive.html#106157186387886957
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For those who don’t keep up, the SCO Group it trying to squeeze lots of money out of IBM for supposed copyright violations. Play with google if you want to get more background but here’s a O & A document from the “Open Source Development Labs”:http://www.osdl.org that helps answer questions about “what this SCO vs. IBM fiasco means to Linux Users”:http://www.osdl.org/docs/qa_re_sco_vs_ibm_html.html

The End User License Agrement for Microsoft Windows states that if you don’t agree with the terms of the license you can return the software to the manufacturer for a refund. Why would you not agree to the license? Well, what about if you install the Linux Operating System and have no use for Windows? Typically, computer manufacturers will not give you any money back, irregardless of what the license says.

Steve Oualline has a story of his “successful attemt to get a refund”:http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7040&mode=thread&order=0 using California’s Small Claims Court.

LinuxJournal has a good essay about “SCO’s problems with Linux”:http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6956&mode=thread&order=0.
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The city of Largo, Florida has a very cool Linux desktop solution setup.
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