The Penguinlinux.com Blog

by Angela Zaharia

Originally published at searchlores in October 2001, updated in October 2003

Oldie but goldie… some readers will learn a lot, here, maybe too much. Well, seekers must know how to punish and how to retaliate, at times.
A small addition, by vvf (june 2003)

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A big addition, by KIVILCIM Hindistan (October 2003)

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Continua”Netcat the Swiss Army utilty”

How to troubleshoot the “NTLDR Is Missing” error message in Windows 2000
Article ID : 318728
Last Review : September 8, 2004
Revision : 3.2
This article was previously published under Q318728
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Installing a kernel on a debian system is quite easy, the easiest way is installing a kernel-image.deb package, once installed you just need to update your boot loader and reboot.

However the kernel-image package did not have everything configured correctly for my system (sound, framebuffer support, usb wireless keyboard-mouse support aka: HID, etc…) so I chose to install the kernel-source-2.6.6.deb.
Continua”Debian Kernel 2.6 How To”

How to keep your redhat system updated using apt-get

1. Intro

Redhat does proved the redhat network, but it requires you to register.
Since each machine need to be individually register, maintaining multiple
machine without a site license is a pain. Here is an alternate method.
I used this methods for basking.

Most of the information came from this article:
Red Hat 8.0 for KDE Users (and Newbies)
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Introduction

In most cases, it’s quite easy to exploit a given vulnerability and gain root access to a system. What’s an actual challenge to an attacker is to maintain such privileges and remain stealthy.
Continua”How hackers attack Linux Machines”

One of the great fears for many Web developers, and even more so for Web server admins, is watching their sites brought down by an avalanche of traffic. The traffic may be from a DoS attack, or maybe the site just got slash-dotted. Bottom line: It just isn?t available.
Continua”How to test your Web Server”

Keeping Fedora Up to Date with Yum
Submitted by rnicholas on Wed, 03/17/2004 - 14:38. Articles | General Interest | How-to | Sys Admin | Distributions
Yum is an automatic updater and package management tool for rpm based systems. Yum automatically computes dependencies and figures out what steps need to occur in order to install packages. It makes it much easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.
Continua”Updating your Fedora Core using Yum”

Startup and Recovery Tools

Troubleshooting Tools and Strategies
The Recovery Console is a startable text-mode command interpreter environment separate from the Windows 2000 command prompt that allows the system administrator access to the hard disk of computer running Windows 2000 Professional, regardless of the file format used, for basic troubleshooting and system maintenance tasks. Since Windows 2000 does not need to be running to use Recovery Console, it is most useful when a Windows 2000 ? based computer does not start properly or cannot start at all.
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How to install NetBEUI on Windows XP
View products that this article applies to.
This article was previously published under Q301041
IN THIS TASK
INTRODUCTION
Install NetBEUI on Windows XP
Continua”How to install Netbui on windows XP”