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The Top Security Tools in the Ubuntu Repositories

Sniffers: dsniff Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities This package contains several tools to listen to and create network traffic: * arpspoof – Send out unrequested (and possibly forged) arp replies. * dnsspoof – forge replies to arbitrary DNS address / pointer queries on the Local Area Network. * dsniff – password […]

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Personal Technical

“Why is there no /var/log/messages any more?”

Woah!  I just noticed this was missing.  I have used this for many years as my go to location for messages in my Ubuntu Linux environments. With the newest update of Ubuntu this seems to be gone.  {Shocker}   But, there is no need for worrying… The logs I was looking for are in /var/log/syslog. […]

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ESXi 4 on USB Thumb Drive

I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list.  I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]

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Software Technical

alsamixer

alsamixer is a graphical mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). It is used to configure sound settings and to adjust the volume. It has an ncurses user interface and does not require the X Window System. It supports multiple sound cards with multiple devices. The top-left corner of alsamixer is the area […]

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How-To Technical

swapoff, swapon…

pre.cjk { font-family: “DejaVu Sans”,monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I have been playing a bit with running programs even virtual machines in memory. What I have noticed is that when all physical RAM is used, my Linux OS (Ubuntu) will move excess memory into SWAP. This is normal, but…. I am attempting to keep […]

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Technical

Monitor your Ubuntu System with saidar

saidar is a curses-based application to display system statistics. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory,swap, network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space. saidar utilizes libstatgrab library. libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run. It’s written in C and presents a selection […]