This script helps you to manage your (large) movie (DVD,DivX) collection. It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users. aviManager attempts to find the best movie to watch if you give it a list of people who are going to watch it by using their past preferences.
April 20, 2005
MS Word Clone for Linux
TextMaker is a word processor that launches lightning-fast, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup and still has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP/2003 files without losing formatting or content.
The biggest advantage in my book is that it doesn’t look ugly. 
Try it out. They have a free trial available which lets you read .doc files but doesn’t let you save in it.
– Suramya
April 19, 2005
How to Personalize your computer
This cool site teaches you how to really personalise your computer by changing the system information in the main tab of System Properties, and information about the company. If you follow these steps you can put anything you want in the tab. And the best part is that all you need to do is create a text file. Pretty cool eh?
Check it out Here
– Suramya
Search engine for searching through source code.
Koders.com is a search engine for open source code. It allows you to search for source code examples and samples that can be included in other programs.
Check it out.
– Suramya
Good WebForum for Tech info
Good forum for computer related information. http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/
– Suramya
April 17, 2005
Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step
Apache is one of the most common Webservers being used today and Apache 2 is the latest release of this great product. Although Apache2 is fairly secure in its default installation it needs to be tweaked a little to make it more secured. The following article is a step by step guide on how to do this. Check it out. Its worth the time…
Article Link: Securing Apache 2
– Suramya
Information Security papers
Links with papers on information security:
Has a great selection of articles with detailed instructions on how to secure various components of a OS.
Has a great selection of articles with detailed instructions on how to secure various components of a OS.
While Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) are appropriate for multilevel secure military applications, Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) are often perceived as meeting the security processing needs of industry and civilian government. This paper argues that reliance on DAC as the principal method of access control is unfounded and inappropriate for many commercial and civilian government organizations. The paper describes a type of non-discretionary access control – role-based access control (RBAC) – that is more central to the secure processing needs of non-military systems then DAC.
(Abstract Copied verbatin from site)
A NSA based project that attempts to create a more secure version on Linux.
The Information Security Writers group (Infosec Writers) is designed to serve as a primary Internet-based source of information, relating to various Information Security issues and topics.
(Abstract Copied verbatin from site)
Information Systems Security Mechanisms:
A collection of resources on computer security.
As always if you know of a resource not listed here, let me know and I will add it.
– Suramya
Wireless LAN Security resources
These are links to various sites that have information on Wireless LAN security. If you know of any other sites let me know and I will add them here.
Wireless security papers:
Lists a lot of papers on wireless security
Wardriving.com:
Has a lot of resources on Wardriving and how to protect against it
Wi-Fi Networking News:
Wi-Fi Networking News covers high-speed wireless networking and communications, focusing on Wi-Fi and related specifications.
Wi-Fi Planet:
A good source for Wi-Fi news
Securing Wireless Networks:
A good article on how to secure wireless networks
Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems:
Information on how to setup a Wireless Intrusion Detection system.
Wireless LAN Policies for Security &Management:
An interesting paper on setting up Wireless LAN security policies.
Airsnarf:
Airsnarf is a simple rogue wireless access point setup utility designed to demonstrate how a rogue AP can steal usernames and passwords from public wireless hotspots
WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2):
WPA2 is the second generation of WPA security; providing enterprise and consumer Wi-Fi® users with a high level of assurance that only authorized users can access their wireless networks
– Suramya
April 15, 2005
Installing Debian From Scratch (DFS)
I like Debian a lot, the only problem I have with it is that when I install it, it installs a lot of junk on the system that I don’t need.
Linux from Scratch is a distribution that fixes this problem but setting it up is too much work for me plus I really like debian and would like to stick to it. Fortunately for me someone else also felt the same and created DFS which allows you to create a customized install like LFS but with the Debian advantages.
Instructions on how to install Debian From Scratch are available here
I will try to install it on my system over the weekend. Will keep you posted.
– Suramya
April 14, 2005
Subversion Tutorial
Subversion is a really powerfull versioning system like CVS. Here’s a tutorial On subversion that tells you who to set it up : Subversion Tutorial
– Suramya