I learned about the MPAA University Toolkit at Brian Krebs' always-excellent SecurityFix blog. If you want to know more about the user experience, please check out that post. Here I take a look at the monitoring software, focusing on Snort, operating on this application.
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Quanta - a web development IDE for KDE
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Quanta is a web development IDE for KDE which comes as part of the kdewebdev package.
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emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop: Announcing Emacspeak 27.0 AKA FastDog
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"...Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak-27 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data and service-oriented semantic Web..."
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Why Ruby on Rails Has Become a Popular
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"In a very short time Ruby on Rails has gained popularity in the enterprise development community among both programmers and system managers.
Read more »Intrusion Detection: Snort, Base, MySQL, and Apache2 On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
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In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort (an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats.
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ATI HD 2900XT With Open-Source Radeon Driver
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Back in September when the RadeonHD Linux driver was finally introduced, it offered support for both the R500 and R600 series. On the first day of the driver's availability, we couldn't help but to use the RadeonHD with the 2900XT, which has been ATI's flagship graphics card.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora 8)
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This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
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In search of a quality kernel
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Linux developers wonder if the kernel's famous code quality is in danger. If it is, they might not know until it's too late.
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Tiny Tin Can Linux
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Tin Can Tools has announced a new fully functional embedded Linux platform in the shape of a 40-pin DIP package.
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Perl trumps Ruby and Erlang in the Wide Finder Project
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"Tim Bunce points me to this post about Perl being faster than Ruby in Tim Bray's Wide Finder code competition..."
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Developing a grid application with open source tools
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Using open source tools for developing grid applications opens up a wealth of possibilities. The first is a very rapid development process, especially if you take advantage of script languages like Perl or Python and deployment environments like Apache. There is also a wealth of examples available that can help you.
Read more »Emacs: GdbMode
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"This mode acts as a graphical user interface to GDB and is part of the recently released Emacs 22 ..."
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Parrot 0.5.0 "Caulked Snack" Released
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"On behalf of the Parrot team, I’m proud to announce Parrot 0.5.0 "Caulked Snack." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."
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My Own Linux Distro: The Choices
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After my first post about creating my own Linux distribution as a learning project, I received a lot of extremely positive letters from readers, many of whom had suggestions about particular distributions to use as the core for the project. Here's some of what they had to say.
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Supercharging package management with yum plugins and utilities
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Fedora's Pirut is a useful tool for basic software installation and package searches. However, if you really want to take control of package management, you need to get back to basics with yum. Just as, on Debian systems, dpkg is the back end underlying apt-get and graphical tools such as Synaptic, so on RPM systems, yum is the hidden power behind Pirut and the Pup updater.
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