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bbPress integration with WordPress

root — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:37:28 +0000

Michele wrote an interesting article about how to integrate bbPress data into a WordPress blog, it’s very useful for who admin blog and forum for one single project.

Nessus & Nmap Cheatsheet

root — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:04:45 +0000

Cheatsheets for famous security programs – Nessus and NMAP, comes handy during network security audits. Nmap is a free open source utility for network exploration, whereas Nessus helps in auditing network devices and applications.

grsecurity

root — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:47:02 +0000

grsecurity is an innovative approach to security utilizing a multi-layered detection, prevention, and containment model. It is licensed under the GPL.
It offers among many other features:

An intelligent and robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system that can generate least privilege policies for your entire system with no configuration
Change root (chroot) hardening
/tmp race prevention
Extensive auditing
Prevention of entire classes of exploits related to address space bugs (from the PaX project)
Additional randomness in the TCP/IP stack
A restriction that allows a user to only view his/her processes
Every security alert or audit contains the IP address of the person that caused the event

Visit it: http://www.grsecurity.org/

Setting up the Parallel Virtual Machine

root — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:13:35 +0000

Parallel Virtual Machine is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer.

OpenWengo

root — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:36:58 +0000

OpenWengo is an open source project, initiated by the French company Wengo, itself backed by neuf telecom. Our goal is to provide a standards-based VoIP platform – we are committed to providing unlimited free telephony and enhanced features to our users, while promoting innovative usage-driven services.

Visit it: http://www.openwengo.com/

FOAF Project

root — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:11:45 +0000

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

Visit it: http://www.foaf-project.org/

WiFiMaps.com

root — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:10:48 +0000

WiFiMaps.com – Wardriving Maps and Hotspot Locator
This is a web-based interactive map of wardriving data. Wardrivers upload their findings, and we draw the data atop detailed street-level maps.

Visit it: http://www.wifimaps.com/

JiWire

root — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:19:19 +0000

JiWire’s global hotspot directory makes it easy to find places to connect wherever you go.

Visit it: http://www.jiwire.com/

Blog Torrent

root — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:37:02 +0000

Blog Torrent is free, open-source software from Downhill Battle that provides an easy way to share large files on your website without large storage or bandwidth costs.

Visit it: http://www.blogtorrent.com/

Xen

root — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:21:51 +0000

Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation.

Visit it: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

NoMachine NX

root — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:13:12 +0000

NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and remote access solution based on a comprising set of enterprise class open source technologies. Thanks to the outstanding X-Window compression technology developed by NoMachine, NX makes it possible to run any graphical application on any operating system across any network connection at incredible speed.

Visit it: http://www.nomachine.com

Atlas of Cyberspaces

root — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:12:32 +0000

This is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces.

These maps of Cyberspaces – cybermaps – help us visualise and comprehend the new digital landscapes beyond our computer screen, in the wires of the global communications networks and vast online information resources. The cybermaps, like maps of the real-world, help us navigate the new information landscapes, as well being objects of aesthetic interest. They have been created by ‘cyber-explorers’ of many different disciplines, and from all corners of the world.

Visit it: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/

BitTorrent

root — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:41:01 +0000

BitTorrent is a free speech tool.
BitTorrent gives you the same freedom to publish previously enjoyed by only a select few with special equipment and lots of money. (“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one” — journalist A.J. Liebling.)

Visit it: http://www.bittorrent.com/

Bytemark

root — Thu, 26 May 2005 11:14:20 +0000

Bytemark are leading the way in Virtual Machine hosting, providing a range of Linux hosting products providing full root access from only £15 per month. All our products are backed by our fast network in Telehouse, London and dedicated support staff.

Visit it: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/

m0n0wall

root — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:38:44 +0000

m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).

Visit it: http://m0n0.ch/wall/

Wonder Shaper

root — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:01:23 +0000

Originally part of the Linux Advanced Routing & Shaping HOWTO
* Maintain low latency for interfactive traffic at all times
This means that downloading or uploading files should not disturb SSH or even telnet. These are the most important things, even 200ms latency is sluggish to work over.

Visit it: http://www.lartc.org/wondershaper/

Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls) Charter

root — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:19:35 +0000

The MPLS working group is responsible for standardizing a base
technology for using label switching and for the implementation of
label-switched paths over various packet based link-level
technologies, such as Packet-over-Sonet, Frame Relay, ATM, and
LAN technologies

Visit it: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-…

OpenWRT

root — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:48:56 +0000

OpenWrt is a linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G. Instead of trying to cram every possible feature into one firmware, OpenWrt provides only a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages. For users this means the ability to custom tune features, removing unwanted packages to make room for other packages and for developers this means being able to focus on packages without having to test and release an entire firmware

Visit it: http://www.openwrt.org/

Cacti: The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution

root — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:27:35 +0000

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

Visit it: http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/

NetMRG

root — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:41:39 +0000

NetMRG is a tool for network monitoring, reporting, and graphing. Based on RRDTOOL, the best of open source graphing systems, NetMRG is capable of creating graphs of any parameter of your network.

Visit it: http://www.netmrg.net