[HowtoForge] Newsletter 08/06/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 08/06/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* Creating Screencasts With recordMyDesktop On Ubuntu 9.04
* Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick
* Boot On BTRFS With Debian
* How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam
* Install Drizzle On Debian Lenny
* How To Connect To A WPA Wifi Using Command Lines On Debian
* Installing Hyper-V Linux Integration Components On CentOS 5
* Using DNS Name Object In Firewall Builder

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Creating Screencasts With recordMyDesktop On Ubuntu 9.04
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recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU/Linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at its primary task. It produces files using only open formats. These are theora for video and vorbis for audio, using the ogg container. This tutorial shows how to install and use recordMyDesktop on Ubuntu 9.04.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-screencasts-with-recordmydesktop-on-ubuntu-9.04

Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick
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Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size). This guide shows how you can install Sugar (the Strawberry release which is based on Fedora 11) on a USB stick.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-sugar-on-a-stick-strawberry-release-on-a-usb-stick

Boot On BTRFS With Debian
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This tutorial will explain you how to boot from a BTRFS filesystem with kernel 2.6.31-RC4 and BTRFS 0.19. BTRFS is a new filesystem with some really interesting features like online defragmenting and snapshots. BTRFS is an experimental filesystem, use at your own risk. The kernel used is also experimental.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-on-btrfs-with-debian

How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam
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If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain to detect which of the sites is vulnerable and sends the spam emails. This tutorial explains the installation of a small wrapper script which logs email messages sent trough the PHP mail() function.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-log-emails-sent-with-phps-mail-function-to-detect-form-spam

Install Drizzle On Debian Lenny
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Drizzle is a Free Software/Open Source database management system (DBMS) that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS. Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/install-drizzle-on-debian-lenny

How To Connect To A WPA Wifi Using Command Lines On Debian
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This tutorial will explain how to connect to a WPA (1-2) wireless network without installing any graphical tool.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-connect-to-a-wpa-wifi-using-command-lines-on-debian

Installing Hyper-V Linux Integration Components On CentOS 5
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Microsoft has introduced together with Windows 2008 a new Hypervisor called Hyper-V. Initially Microsoft only supported Microsoft products and Novell Suse, but recently they added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this support it is also possible to install the components on CentOS.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-hyper-v-linux-integration-components-on-centos-5

Using DNS Name Object In Firewall Builder
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This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates how you can build firewall rules matching DNS A records.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/using-dns-name-object-in-firewall-builder

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