What Have You Done with Linux Lately?

Not quite as impressive as some of the previous examples mentionned here, but...

I needed to scan a document. My main computer is Vista64 so obviously a problem there, and I couldn't be bothered to find the correct drivers for my XP install, so i just plugged the scanner in to Ubuntu and hey presto Xsane worked straight away!
 
Might not sound impressive, but the simple fact that yet another device worked perfectly straight away is impressive enough.
 
Una said:
What have you done to maintain the integrity of the tripwire hash (database?). Whats to stop the attacker modifying that, replacing it with the original values? :p
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trash tripwire and stuff; install 'git' and create a repository of your sensitive files (/etc etc). You can then checkin the system updates, with history, branches etc... and as a bonus you can check for corruption (or tampering) because the repository is self-checking and every object is SHA1 hashed.

I got 'git' repositories for at least /etc on everyone of my servers, it's a fantastic tool -- not even mentioning for source code...
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BTW I use linux for my work, full time. I do ARM7, 9 and AVR development, and Xilinx FPGA synthesis and simulation with modelsim all day long.
I use KDE3 (not 4, yuck) on a Dell 390 (yuck) upgraded with a 6600 with 8GB RAM -- and 2 * 24" DELL TFTs via a fDVI DVD-D->DVI splitter cable.

The last hack I did was to replace an old hardware box running RedHat 7.1 (locked with Montavista install) by running it in 'kvm' -- it's fantastic; runs several time faster than the original hardware now.
 
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BusError said:
trash tripwire and stuff; install 'git' and create a repository of your sensitive files (/etc etc). You can then checkin the system updates, with history, branches etc... and as a bonus you can check for corruption (or tampering) because the repository is self-checking and every object is SHA1 hashed.

I got 'git' repositories for at least /etc on everyone of my servers, it's a fantastic tool -- not even mentioning for source code...
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BTW I use linux for my work, full time. I do ARM7, 9 and AVR development, and Xilinx FPGA synthesis and simulation with modelsim all day long.
I use KDE3 (not 4, yuck) on a Dell 390 (yuck) upgraded with a 6600 with 8GB RAM -- and 2 * 24" DELL TFTs via a fDVI DVD-D->DVI splitter cable.

The last hack I did was to replace an old hardware box running RedHat 7.1 (locked with Montavista install) by running it in 'kvm' -- it's fantastic; runs several time faster than the original hardware now.
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Aye, I switched from SVN to git a while back as well. Using it for version control on all my configs / code now.
 
skiba said:
Don't mean to be a party pooper and what you did was a good way to learn but you could have just done this:

find /cdrom/ -name "*.zip" -exec cp {} /your/location

The find manpage should explain it all.
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shouldn't that be;

find /cdrom/ -name "*.zip" -exec cp {} /your/location \;

The \; denoting the end of the -exec clause.

Scripting I do is mainly on Solaris 8 and as Linux has strayed from the 'path of purity' with all its 'user friendly features' (UNIX was never meant to be user friendly else how could us techie bods keep the jobs) so it may be that the \; is no longer needed in Linux.

Anyways, back on track.

I use mine for torrentz whilsh saving the environment.......... it is running on my NAS (D-Link 323 - Transmission and Clutch) so allows me to turn off my P.C. overnight.

I am also looking at building uShare so I can stream vid / mp3 / pics to my XBox 360.

RB
 
RimBlock said:
Scripting I do is mainly on Solaris 8 and as Linux has strayed from the 'path of purity' with all its 'user friendly features' (UNIX was never meant to be user friendly else how could us techie bods keep the jobs)
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An archaic attitude im glad no longer exists. You must really hate Solaris 10+ with its user friendly 1 liners for ZFS etc
 
rick827 said:
An archaic attitude im glad no longer exists. You must really hate Solaris 10+ with its user friendly 1 liners for ZFS etc
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Absolutely. Missed the :D off the end indicating the sarcasam ;).

Honestly though, trying to get the various libraries and utils compiled that are needed to compile other utils that are needed to compile the app I want to compile is a bit of a nightmare. Added to that the fact that some of the utils required do not have any forums (only mailing lists - pkg-config, libdlna, ffmpeg, mplayer) for community type support with installs and a lot of the installation docs are very poor (libdlna INSTALL file is a good case in point). It is getting a bit like a spiders web.

Anyway, progress is being made and it is all a good learning experience (or relearning in my case as I used to do this to rebuild the Slackware 3 kernel).

RB
 
sablabra said:
Tell me if you get that working. I managed to make shared files available on my xbox 360 with ushare, but streaming movies didn't work...
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I am compiling for the D-Link DNS-323 NAS with firmware 1.5 and Fonz's Funplug 0.5 (ffp 0.5).

I had uShare working very well with ffp 0.4 and was able to view videos, display photos but never really tried music. The version of uShare I was using for ffp 0.4 was compiled by another kind soul over on the dns-323 hack forums here. I am also documenting my progress to get this build working there.

RB
 
RimBlock said:
I am compiling for the D-Link DNS-323 NAS with firmware 1.5 and Fonz's Funplug 0.5 (ffp 0.5).

I had uShare working very well with ffp 0.4 and was able to view videos, display photos but never really tried music. The version of uShare I was using for ffp 0.4 was compiled by another kind soul over on the dns-323 hack forums here. I am also documenting my progress to get this build working there.

RB
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Just like you I figured out I needed libavformat and libavcodec in order to stream my movies. Even though I thought I'd added them succesfully and compiled the package correctly, I still couldn't make it work. Dunno why, maybe I'll have a look at it at a later point.
 
sablabra said:
Just like you I figured out I needed libavformat and libavcodec in order to stream my movies. Even though I thought I'd added them succesfully and compiled the package correctly, I still couldn't make it work. Dunno why, maybe I'll have a look at it at a later point.
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Depends what you are streaming to. As I am just streaming to the XBox 360 the verion I managed to compile last night works fine without the ffmpeg libs. This version does not have the DLNA compatibility for the PS3 users though so I am still working on trying to get the ffmpeg libs compiled. Unfortunately the configure for ffmpeg hangs and the make for mplayer (which includes ffmpeg lib build) exits with an error after around 3 hours of compiling.....

While frustrated do
[head] +

Done

I need to find somewhere where I can get some help on compiling ffmpeg but the dev team do not have a forum :(.

RB
 
I haven't done any programming in a while due to time issues :(.

So recently? All I've done is simply enjoy using my computer, the way I want too.
 
Well, i have just installed open Suse11 i think it was.

I have managed to get GUI RDP to my vista box.
Set up file server, have 2x250GB hd in the linux box that i can now access from Vista, have moved across my films etc...

Set up the firewall & SSH.

Not bad for first go & only 2 nights work!

The rdp took 70% of the time, i couldnt for the life of me get the desktop. Could only get promt but then used vino instead of tightVNC. Worked first time!

Just need to get to grips with everything else now. Love the pwr of the konsole :)
 
The last "cool" thing I did was set up OSPF on a Debian box using Quagga.

I am currently installing Nagios on a CentOS VM to get to grips with a real NMS, should produce me some cool stats and if that all works out OK I'll probably install cacti and learn that.

There is also my 5 minute side-project of getting SubSonic working inside Tomcat, for that purpose I tried out JeOS but Ubuntu just irritates me now (and it was really, really slow inside a VM, which is odd considering what JeOS is). Moving back to CentOS for that I think.
 
Installed fedora9 on a computer under the stairs. Filled it with hard drives. Got VNC working, now working on samba but for the life of me can't work out why it was working and now won't! Bet it's IP address issues...
 
DRZ said:
The last "cool" thing I did was set up OSPF on a Debian box using Quagga.

I am currently installing Nagios on a CentOS VM to get to grips with a real NMS, should produce me some cool stats and if that all works out OK I'll probably install cacti and learn that.

There is also my 5 minute side-project of getting SubSonic working inside Tomcat, for that purpose I tried out JeOS but Ubuntu just irritates me now (and it was really, really slow inside a VM, which is odd considering what JeOS is). Moving back to CentOS for that I think.
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Will get round to Nagios this weekend. Just finished my email server, DNS server, web server and syslog-ng/splunk syslog server. Id love to play with OSPF but i've nothing to peer with :D

After Nagios im going to sort a central authentication server with LDAP as i now have about 10 physical/virtual hosts :( Oh, and get rid of my pfsense router and do my own from scratch :D
 
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