Maemo PhoneLink and Nokia E61

This is to report that finally Maemo PhoneLink 1.4.3 works fine with Nokia E61 Mobile Phones. the tricks to have this to work as follows
1) install Gnokii-Gconf
1.1) Make sure that you are able to detect your phone using Gnokii-Gconf "launched from Control Panel", if it did not work change the "cfcomm" my mobile worked with "rfcomm =2"

2) Now your Phone Link should work with your Nokia E61 , I test calling and Sending SMS and both works just fine

Women International Network Call for Application

Women Making Airwaves for Peace is a joint project of Min-WoW and Isis International - Manila to promote engendered peace journalism and women's critical role in conflict transformation and peace building. The project consists os Training Workshops and Training Modules.

Isis International in partnership with AMARC Asia Pacific Women's International Network are inviting to the seminar "Women Making Airwaves of Peace" on 3 - 7 October in Bangalore, India.

Please see the attached call for applications and the application form.

You also find the call of application and the application form on the Isis International website under Women Making Airwaves for Peace.
Deadline for applications is July 12, 2009
http://www.isiswomen.org/downloads/wmap/WMAP_Call4Applications.pdf
http://www.isiswomen.org/downloads/wmap/WMAP_ApplicationForm.doc

With best regards
Bianca Miglioretto
Community Radio Officer
Isis International

VirtualBox Beta 3.0 Released

The Sun-sponsored project "VirtualBox" has released a beta 3.0 version of its x86-oriented virtualization software. The Linux-compatible xVM VirtualBox 3.0 adds support for guest Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with up to 32 virtual CPUs, as well as support for version 2.0 of the OpenGL graphics acceleration standard.Targeted at server, desktop, and embedded platforms based on x86, VirtualBox lets users run their favorite software, Sun says, while enabling developers convenience when building, testing, and running "cross-platform, multi-tier applications." It does this by enabling development and target systems to share a single physical host. Supported target "platforms" include Linux, OpenSolaris, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X.

The Beta 1 release of version 3.0 is bleeding edge, caution the project leaders. New features are said to include:

• Guest SMP support for up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
• Ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications and games (Windows guests only; experimental)
• Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guests
• New USB support for high-speed isochronous endpoints, as well as read-ahead buffering for input endpoints, enabling additional devices like webcams (currently Linux hosts only)
• Kernel module compile fixes on Linux hosts
• Multiple fixes and minor additions related to VMM, GUI, VHD, among others

Official Announcement on VirtualBox is could be found h3r3

Download Link of VirtualBox beta 3.0 is h3r3

Open Source Screen Recording Software

CamStudio.org is an Open Source Screen Recording Software runs on Microsoft Windows Operating System. Which allows you to record what is displayed on your screen , for example a running Presentation and then you save it as AVI file. Still you can include Audio to the output AVI file and convert it to SWF using it's builtin SWF/Flash Producer. In other words this software is useful to convert your Presentation to AVI or SWF.

Quoted from CamStudio Site "

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

• You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
• Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
• You can create video tutorials for school or college class
• You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
• You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
• You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them"

Link is h3r3

Attach USB LCD to your PC

Yes, you read it right! Attach an USB LCD to your PC.

It’s the Mimo Mini 7 inch LCD monitor that attaches to your computer via USB. The max resolution is 800 x 480 and it can even rotate. It can be used as a separate display for your IM client, widgets, etc., or my attach it to your Car Computer Carputer The price tag is $129.99. It’s available at ThinkGeek.

Problem Browsing Linkedin.com with computers running Linux and or Firefox

If you have a computer running Linux and Firefox browser and you are facing problems surfing www.linkedin.com , or you are using the unlucky combination of
1) Dlink ADSL Router OR
2) Dlink ADSL Router and Wireless Access Point AND
3) Computer Running Linux AND
4) Firefox Browser
you may be unable to surf www.linkedin.com and there is already a bug tracking on launchpad referencing this problem "Bug 314713 "
All what you need to do to solve this problem is to change your Network Card MTU value, the value that I tried and works is 1360.
Necessary command to change MTU of Network interface on linux is "sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1360"
Hope that help and happy Surfing

Multi Touch now Supported by Linux Kernel

A development group at ENAC in Toulouse, France, reports that it has developed a proof of concept for adding iPhone-like multi-touch support to the Linux kernel. The group has released a video showing multi-touch effects such as resizing and rotating using Linux 2.6.30.
In an email, Boulabiar stressed that the code is different than the Multi-Pointer X (MPX) technology being integrated into version 7.5 of the mainline X.Org server. Whereas MPX is a modification to X Window that provides multiple independent pointers (mouse cursors) at the windowing system level for multi-pointer capability, the ENAC code offers true native multi-touch capability, says Boulabiar.

"The video shows multitouch effects that are being supported natively to send ABS_MT_* events from the kernel," wrote Boulabiar. "When making the demos, I have chosen to use general libraries not related to a WM, to be able to run demos on any Linux platform." Boulabiar added that he expects the technology to be incorporated into the Google-sponsored Android stack.


According to the project site, the demo code reads input directly from the device file ("/dev/input/eventX"), without "X server involvement in input handling at this stage." The demo performs simple gesture recognition and then sends D-Bus messages to the Compiz Fusion 3D window manager, to produce special effects. It requires the new Linux 2.6.30 kernel, among other requirements, which are detailed in the download page linked to below.

Linux kernel 2.6.30 Released with New File Systems Support

Linus Torvalds announced Linux kernel 2.6.30, adding several new filesystems, including the NILFS2 log-structured filesystem. Linux 2.6.30 enhancements include a local caching layer for NFS data, the RDS server cluster communications protocol, the Tomoyo security module, and support for LZMA and BZIP2 compression algorithms.
The new NILFS2 treats the whole disk as a consecutive list of blocks (or "log"), and never rewrites blocks. As a result, all modifications and creations are converted into sequential operations, which are said to be faster. Other NILFS2 improvements are said to include the ability to offer a more coherent historical view of operations, called "continuus snapshotting," enabling users to restore files that have been mistakenly destroyed only a few seconds previously.
In addition to the NILFS2 system, Linux 2.6.30 adds an EXOFS filesystem designed for object-based storage, and a POHMELFS distributed networking filesystem. Other filesystem enhancements include improved data security with the controversial new ext4 filesystem, as well as automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4, and Btrfs.
Major new features of Linux 2.6.30 are said to include:

• NILFS2 -- This log-structured filesystem offers "continuous snapshotting" restore feature (see above).
  
  
• POHMELFS and DST -- POHMELFS (Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System) is a network distributed filesystem which is said to offer faster I/O operation compared to NFS. DST (Distributed network Storage) is said to streamline the creation of high-performance storage networks.
  
  
• Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol support -- RDS provides a high bandwidth, low-latency, inter-process communication protocol and transport system between the servers in a cluster.
  
  
• Fastboot -- Intel's quick-booting technology performs storage scanning asynchronously, enabling the kernel to keep booting while storage devices are scanned in parallel.
  
  
• IEEE 802.11w -- A preliminary implementation of a proposed WiFi amendment that increases the security of 802.11's management frames, IEEE 802.11w is said to offer "wireless management frame protection support."
  
  
• Preadv()/pwritev() system calls -- These Red Hat contributed syscalls, which are also used in BSD, are "a pretty straightforward combination of pread/pwrite and readv/pwrite," says the kernel project.
  
  
• EXOFS -- This filesystem supports a new generation of experimental, object-based storage devices that offload work from the host, and offer a higher-level interface via an array of objects.
  
  
• NFS 4.1 -- A preliminary version of the IETF's NFS 4.1, the Linux implementation adds the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions. Other features, including Parallel NFS, will be added in later releases.
  
  
• FS-Cache -- This caching filesystem caches data from networked filesystems disk, speeding up operations, similar to the CacheFS of other Unix OSes.
  
  
• Tomoyo -- The Tomoyo Mandatory Access Control (MAC) is an alternative to the Selinux and Smack security subsystems, and offers pathname-based access control.
  
  
• Filesystems performance improvements -- To improve disk I/O on fsync calls, changes have been to create an implicit internal fsync of a file after a rename or truncate in ext3, ext4, and Btrfs filesystems.
  
  
• LZMA/BZIP2 kernel image compression -- LZMA or BZIP2 can now be used for compression. The kernel size is said to be about 10 percent smaller with BZIP2 in comparison to the pre-existing GZIP, and about 33 percent smaller with LZMA.
  
  
• Microblaze support -- The new release supports the Xilinx MMU-less Microblaze CPU architecture.

• Integrity Management Architecture -- The Trusted Computing Group (TCG)'s runtime Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) improves security, especially on systems with TPM chips.

• Tux returns -- The official codename of Linux 2.6.30 may be "Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity", but it might also be called "The Return of the Tux." The previous kernel release sent Tux (pictured, as always on the LinuxDevices masthead) on vacation as official mascot in order to showcase a Tasmanian devil called "Tuz" (pictured). Now that the Linux world is aware of the Australian species' endangered status, however, the penguin is back.

Release notes can be found h3r3.

Open Source Cloud computing Amazon EC Alternative

Eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon's EC2, S3, and EBS interfaces, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.

Originating in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a research project, the software is now maintained by Eucalyptus Systems -- a company founded by the original authors of the software to continue to the effort.

• Read our publications & presentation slides
• Consult the documentation, including download and installation instructions
• Test-drive the Eucalyptus Public Cloud
• Share impressions and vent frustrations in our discussion forum
• Subscribe to mailing list here.

I see this project as an Open Source of the Amazon EC(Elastic Computing) commercial version but built all on Linux and Open Source components.

Limitations to the Trial Accounts are :

• VM instances are time-limited to 6 hours (they will be terminated without any warning!).
• No more than 4 VM instances from one user are allowed at a time.
• VM instances are assigned public IP addresses, but only incoming network connections and inter-instance network connections are allowed (with the exception of outgoing connections to Debian mirrors - so apt-get will work). This means that you can log in to your VMs from outside, communicate between VM instances, but are not allowed to initiate any connections from a VM instance.
• Users are not allowed to upload custom disk images, but limited to what EPC provides (a "toy" Linux image called ttylinux, which boots almost instantaneously, and a standard Debian image that takes longer).

Open Source Security Assessment Tools

100 Open Source Security Assessment, Vulnerability Auditing, & Security Tools

1	Stockade	Virtual Appliance with Snort, BASE, Inprotect, CACTI, NTOP & Others
2	Nessus	Open source vulnerability assessment tool
3	Snort	Intrusion Detection (IDS) tool
4	Wireshark	TCP/IP Sniffer- AKA Ethereal
5	WebScarab	Analyze applications that communicate using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols
6	Wikto	Web server assessment tool
7	BackTrack	Penetration Testing live Linux distribution
8	Netcat	The network Swiss army knife
9	Metasploit Framework	Comprehensive hacking framework
10	Sysinternals	Collection of windows utilities
11	Paros proxy	Web application proxy
12	Enum	Enumerate Windows information
13	P0F v2	Passive OS identification tool
14	IPPersonality	Masquerade IP Stack
15	SLAN	Freeware VPN utility
16	IKE Crack	IKE/IPSEC cracking utility
17	ASLEAP	LEAP cracking tool
18	Karma	Wireless client assessment tool- dangerous
19	WEPCrack	WEP cracking tool
20	Wellenreiter	Wireless scanning application
21	SiteDigger	Great Google hacking tool
22	Several DDOS Tools	Distributed Denial of Service(DDOS) tools
23	Achilles	Web Proxy Tool
24	Firefox Web Developer Tool	Manual web assessment
25	Scoopy	Virtual Machine Identification tool
26	WebGoat	Learning tool for web application pentests
27	FlawFinder	Source code security analyzer
28	ITS4	Source code security analyzer
29	Slint	Source code security analyzer
30	PwDump3	Dumps Windows 2000 & NT passwords
31	Loki	ICMP covert channel tool
32	Zodiac	DNS testing tool
33	Hunt	TCP hijacking tool
34	SniffIT	Curses-Based sniffing tool
35	CactiEZ	Network traffic analysis ISO
36	Inprotect	Web-based Nessus administration tool
37	OSSIM	Security Information Management (SIM)
38	Nemesis	Command-Line network packet manipulation tool
39	NetDude	TCPDump manipulation tool
40	TTY Watcher	Terminal session hijacking
41	Stegdetect	Detects stego-hidden data
42	Hydan	Embeds data within x86 applications
43	S-Tools	Embeds data within a BMP, GIF, & WAV Files
44	Nushu	Passive covert channel tool
45	Ptunnel	Transmit data across ICMP
46	Covert_TCP	Transmit data over IP Header fields
47	THC-PBX Hacker	PBX Hacking/Auditing Utility
48	THC-Scan	Wardialer
49	Syslog-NG	MySQL Syslog Service
50	WinZapper	Edit WinNT 4 & Win2000 log files
51	Rootkit Detective	Rootkit identification tool
52	Rootkit Releaver	Rootkit identification tool
53	RootKit Hunter	Rootkit identification tool
54	Chkrootkit	Rootkit identification tool
55	LKM	Linux Kernal Rootkit
56	TCPView	Network traffic monitoring tool
57	NMAP	Network mapping tool
58	Ollydbg	Windows unpacker
59	UPX	Windows packing application
60	Burneye	Linux ELF encryption tool
61	SilkRpoe 2000	GUI-Based packer/wrapper
62	EliteWrap	Backdoor wrapper tool
63	SubSeven	Remote-Control backdoor tool
64	MegaSecurity	Site stores thousands of trojan horse backdoors
65	Netbus	Backdoor for Windows
66	Back Orfice 2000	Windows network administration tool
67	Tini	Backdoor listener similar to Netcat
68	MBSA	Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
69	OpenVPN	SSL VPN solution
70	Sguil	An Analyst Console for network security/log Monitoring
71	Honeyd	Create your own honeypot
72	Brutus	Brute-force authentication cracker
73	cheops / cheops-ng	Maps local or remote networks and identifies OS of machines
74	ClamAV	A GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX
75	Fragroute/Fragrouter	Intrusion detection evasion toolkit
76	Arpwatch	Monitor ethernet/IP address pairings and can detect ARP Spoofing
77	Angry IP Scanner	Windows port scanner
78	Firewalk	Advanced traceroute
79	RainbowCrack	Password Hash Cracker
80	EtherApe	EtherApe is a graphical network monitor for Unix
81	WebInspect	Web application scanner
82	Tripwire	File integrity checker
83	Ntop	Network traffic usage monitor
84	Sam Spade	Windows network query tool
85	Scapy	Interactive packet manipulation tool
86	Superscan	A Windows-only port scanner
87	Airsnort	802.11 WEP Encryption Cracking Tool
88	Aircrack	WEP/WPA cracking tool
89	NetStumbler	Windows 802.11 Sniffer
90	Dsniff	A suite of powerful network auditing and penetration-testing tools
91	John the Ripper	Multi-platform password hash cracker
92	BASE	The Basic Analysis and Security Engine- used to manage IDS data
93	Kismet	Wireless sniffing tool
94	THC Hydra	Network authentication cracker
95	Nikto	Web scanner
96	Tcpdump	TCP/IP analysis tool
97	L0phtcrack	Windows password auditing and recovery application
98	Reverse WWW Shell	Shell access across port 80
99	THC-SecureDelete	Ensure deleted files are unrecoverable
100	THC-AMAP	Application mapping tool