Quick tip to help you to manage packages on a Debian distribution: How to perform an upgrade (apt-get upgrade) without upgrading one or more critical packages? I’m running a Debian server with a Groundwork monitoring tool. Groundwork requires specific MySQL packages that cannot be upgraded. # cat <<END | dpkg
Category: Software
3D GPS Demo
A new generation of GPS devices is on the way. They integrate now three dimensional maps. The next one should be linked to Google Maps!
Be Up to Date with Secunia!
Everybody agree on the fact that security is a day to day fight. New security flaws are discovered everyday and keeping your devices (*) is really a pain. There is nothing more boring that patching a system! Secunia proposes a tool to help you to keep your computers up to
WordPress critical upgrade!
Happy New Year and happy patching! WordPress 2.3.2 is out!
Nmap 1997-2007
Happy Birthday to nmap! Version 4.50 is out.
Mobile Surfing
Today, I read the an article about the most used browsers on the Internet. Here is a resume: Windows XP 78.37% Windows Vista 9.19% MacIntel 3.59% Mac OS 3.22% Windows 2000 2.97% Windows 98 0.76% Windows NT 0.63% Linux 0.57% Windows ME 0.43% iPhone 0.09% Windows CE 0.06% Hiptop 0.02%
HoSProxy
When a security policy is in place, users will always try to bypass rules! When access to specific resources are denied, they will try to find alternative ways to access them (don’t ask why, it’s in the human behaviour!) Even worse with network resources! Some protocols might be denied by
Iperf
Today, a customer requested some benchmarks regarding a new 100Mbits circuit which will be used in prodution on Saturday. How to quickly perform benchmarking with the minimum time and effort? The answer can be Iperf. Iperf is a network performance tool which can perform lot of tests and report bandwidth,
wget.exe
Today, I had to mirror a big part of a website to a local disk. For such operation, my favorite tool is wget. Unfortunately in this case, I had no way to use a UNIX host. Not a problem, let’s ask Google if there exists some port to the Windows
Tadaaaaaa!
All of us ear them more then one time per day. (to our despair!)