Skipfish is a new security scanning tool from Google that tries to find vulnerabilities in your webserver.
It can be installed either locally or on your webserver.
The easiest place to install Skipfish is on Linux, so I’ll go over installing it on Ubuntu.
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As I mentioned in a article on Ubuntu Boot CD images, there’s a new boot CD image every day because the new version is being tested out. When the new version is finally released, work starts on version next, and daily builds start to come out again.
The problem is downloading a new 700MB file daily seems wasteful, and that’s 21GB of download per month, which your ISP may or may not like.
The solution is zsync, a binary file sychronization program. Read on to find out how it works.
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Ubuntu’s getting ready to release the next version of it’s open-source operating system. The current version is Karmic Koala (9.10, released October 2009), and the next version will be Lucid Lynx (version 10.04, to be released April 2010).
Here’s how to create a boot CD.
This’ll let you try the OS just by rebooting and without installing anything on your computer.
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Chromium is the open-source version of the Google Chrome web browser. It excludes some of the URL-tracking stuff in Chrome.
Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu.
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The Ubuntu Panel is a system panel that appears at the top of the screen in Ubuntu. Unlike Windows, Ubuntu has two panels: one on top, and one on the bottom.
I have the top panel set to auto-hide. But, the other day, it hung for some reason. Here’s how to fix it.
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Mads Rosendahl created a great little video explaing the Ubuntu release schedule in very simple terms.
Ubuntu Release Schedule
One thing I didn’t know was that, according to the video, if an Ubuntu release is delayed, it’s year-month version (like 9.10 for Ubuntu Karmic released in October 2009), is also changed. I had been under the impression [...]
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Some reasons you might want to lowercase your filenames include:
1. Most webservers are case-sensitive. Because of this, most websites stick to the rule of having all files in a single case, namely lower.
2. If you’re using the command line to manipulate files, it’s easier when all the files are lower case. It’s a lot faster [...]
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The Ubuntu Linux distribution is dropping the GIMP graphics program from its installation CD. While it won’t be installed on fresh installations, the program will be able to be installed via Ubuntu Software Center. Users who have the GIMP installed will continue to have it installed after future Ubuntu upgrades.
This move had generated quite a [...]
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KDE is undergoing a marketing exercise in renaming itself and its various products:
The phrase “K Desktop Environment” won’t be used
KDE means the community and an overarching brand
Various KDE products’ new names:
KDE Plasma Desktop and KDE Plasma Netbook
KDE technologies become the KDE Platform
The KDE Applications remain the same
KDE 4.3 will be called “KDE Software Compilation 4.4″ [...]
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The latest release of Ubuntu, the easy-to-use Linux distribution, is out. With a version number of 9.10 (which stands for October, 2009), it’s code-named Karmic Koala.
Some features of the new release include:
The Ubuntu Software Center. This is an application that replaces the old Application Add/Remove. It’s nice for browsing available software, and you can install [...]
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