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Archive for September, 2010

September 26th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Recently I regained some interest in electronics. I used to play around a lot with breadboards and all kinds of experiments before I started to get into the whole computer business. But when I moved from one country to another, I had to leave most of my stuff behind because of space restrictions. But a [...]

September 23rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Introduction
I have set up Snort a few times on a network to check for possible intrusion attempts. It is a very powerful tool to discover these attempts, based on rules that are frequently updated. Snort is a so-called "Intrusion Detection System" (=IDS), that can also be setup as a "Intrusion Prevention System".
Recently I needed Snort [...]

September 19th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Snort is an "Intrusion Detection and Prevention System", or - in other words - a program that can detect attempts to attack your network and prevent them. It does this through a series of "rules" that try to detect if the traffic arriving / passing through is legitimate or suspicious.
These rules are regularly updated (as [...]

September 18th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

This week a new version of Freeciv was released, 2.2.3.
It contains several improvements and bug fixes and also some updated translations.
A summary of all the changes can be found on the "NEWS" page.
As always, I submitted the new SlackBuild and uploaded the new versions for Slackware and Slackware64 to my site.

September 17th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The developers of Cacti released two new patches for version 0.8.7g recently, one to fix an issue with the ping library, another to fix an issue with 1-minute polling intervals.
This brings the total number of patches for this version to seven.
I submitted the updated SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org and uploaded the new package to my [...]

September 11th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Some months ago I created a Slackware package for XSpacewarp, a game originally from 1977.
A fellow Slackware enthusiast wrote a man-page for this little game and found an "app-defaults" file on the internet, so that many settings in the game can now be customized.
I played a bit with the settings and now my spaceship is [...]

September 7th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , , |

The distributed build system has been working fine for the last few days / nights, so I managed to build several packages for ARMedslack.
These are now available for download on my site:

viewvc + Pygments (browser interface for cvs and svn)
xspacewarp (Time-Trek like game for X-Windows)
inadyn (Dynamic DNS updater)
nagios + nagios-plugins (IT monitoring system)
ntop + GeoIP [...]

September 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , |

No, I did not abandon ARMedslack, the official port of Slackware to the ARM architecture… It was simply a matter of lack of time (or a question of priorities, depending of your point of view).
But this weekend I finally found some time to setup a clean build environment based on the stable ARMedslack 13.1 version.
The [...]

September 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

A few days ago, while working on the update of my SlackBuild for Zarafa version 6.40.1, version 6.40.2 was released. At first I thought of submitting the script using the newest version, but soon found out that it was not that simple… The newest release simply would not build on Slackware… Since I had already [...]

September 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Nagios released version 3.2.2 of Nagios Core this week.
It contains several fixes and a new configuration interface (although I don't use it, I do all my configuration with Vim ) A detailed ChangeLog can be found here.
As a happy and satisfied user of Nagios, I updated my SlackBuild script immediately and after a [...]