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Martinus Ady H: How To Manage Hacker In Your Company

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:16 +0000

Kemarin waktu blogwalking, eh ga sengaja ketemu artikel yang bagus menurut saya Nah mungkin bisa jadi bahan bacaan di waktu senggang buat teman-teman Sedangkan postingan yang asli dari tulisan ini saya ambil dari The Hacker FAQ dan inilah tulisan yang saya maksud tersebut : If you find this information useful, [...]

Makassar-Slackers: Wireless Off setelah upgrade ke slackware current

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:48:09 +0000

Setelah sukses mengupgrade X dan kernel menggunakan paket slackware current, saya baru menyadari saat mencoba untuk menggunakan wireless di UNM.

Makassar-Slackers: Synaptics di Slackware Current

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:25:26 +0000

Synaptics, setidaknya menurut saya, sangat membantu dalam hal navigasi kursor menggunakan touchpad.

Makassar-Slackers: Xorg 1.7.5, kernel 2.6.33 di Slackware Current

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:58:05 +0000

Slackware current, versi development dari slackware yang akan dirilis selanjutnya, untuk sebagian orang, minimal saya, merupakan pengobat dari rasa keingintahuan akan bagaimana versi slackware selanju

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Emacs Rebuilt

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:09:00 +0000

I said that i will be out of town and i won't be updating this blog, but it seems that there has been a small update on the -Current tree. Emacs gets rebuilt since it was compiled using a wrong architecture (it was using x86_64 previously), so i will post about it before i'm leaving in the next two hours.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Out of Town

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:54:00 +0000

I will be out of town for few days, so i will not be able to post updates in Slackware-Current development nor any Slackware-related news. I will be back on Sunday and hopefully, there are plenty of updates which can be posted at that time.

As always, read the -Current Changelog for detailed information about what happened in -Current tree.

Hadi Sumarsono: Cara Mudah Bikin Live-CD ... Lagi

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:14:00 +0000

Bismillah.

Pada awalnya ana enggan membuat tulisan ini, karena sebenarnya artikel membuat LINUX live-cd ... sudah banyak tersedia di Internet, baik dalam bahasa Indonesia maupun bahasa "Londo" ... tinggal tanya aja sama "Lek" Google

Tetapi mengingat permintaan beberapa teman ana dan seterusnya, menimbang tentang perlunya update blog ini dan seterusnya, memperhatikan tentang sebaiknya membagi ilmu walau secuil (lha memang punya ilmunya secuil) dan seterusnya .... maka ditetapkan bahwa :

a).Ini-lah cara khas ana meracik LINUX Live-CD (dua tiga kura-kura, dulu belum bisa sekarang lupa, makanya ditulis).

b).Ana tidak bertanggung-jawab terhadap akibat apapun yg akan ditimbulkan oleh tata-cara ini (sebagaimana penyangkalan lainnya). Hanya saja, selama ini -menurut ana- ... aman, kecuali rasa penasaran yang membuat tak bisa tidur

c).Dalam tulisan ini pembaca dianggap sudah paham instalasi Sistem Operasi GNU/Linux, dan mampu menginstalnya ke partisi harddisk tertentu serta mampu melakukan kustomisasi yang diperlukan !

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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Emacs Upgraded

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:16:00 +0000

It has been requested by many people and now Pat decided it's time to put this request done by upgrading emacs to 23.1. Emacs, a popular text editor made by Richard Stallman itself is a very complete text editor. It can do more than just text editor. No wonder many people used this application as their favorite one.

Well, it's the only update for today, so if you don't use emacs (like i do), you won't find any interesting updates today, so your machine is safe for another day (hey, i'm not talking that -Current will break your machine , but it's a development tree, so anything can happen)

Widya Walesa: Trouble With The Glade

noreply@blogger.com (walesa) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:33:00 +0000

Current libglade built from slackware64-current has some minor issue that came from libglade build script or libglade.SlackBuild. I've notice it when i'm doing build for new evolution package...

[read more on http://wallinux.blogspot.com/]

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: XOrg 1.7.5 and Linux Kernel 2.6.33

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:38:00 +0000

Indonesian Slackware user, Arman Idris posted on Plurk that he is now running XOrg 1.7.5 with the latest -Current update. I was curious and asked him what did he do in order to make that combination works? I have tried to upgrade this before and the result was misserable. I couldn't start KDE. I have tried several ways, but ended with failure.

He replied that he did nothing. It was a default configuration, which makes me more curious about it. So i looked the Changelog and i saw no major changes to XOrg except for Mesa which is rebuilt to remove --enable-gallium-intel and --enable-gallium-radeon configure parameter (which i think it's not related at all).

So i tried the upgrade on my workstation at my office which uses Intel VGA card. I installed the generic kernel and create initrd, upgrade all packages in x/ and re-ran lilo to update the lilo and reboot and YES, it worked like charm. It works automatically without any additional configuration. All you need is the latest -Current (March 12 and newer) and it should work.

Next, i tried this on my laptop which uses Intel + NVidia (yes, it's a hybrid laptop). Unfortunately, Linux is not ready for GPU switching yet (until 2.6.34), so basically it's Intel-based laptop. I upgraded all packages in x/ and installed the generic-smp kernels in -Current and reboot, but what did i get? a Lockup. It won't boot at all. It won't even pass the initial kernel dots.

So i decided to compile my own Linux 2.6.33 kernel using Pat's config file on generic-smp which i modified a little bit to make the EXT4 file system static (so i won't have to make initrd), change the processor type, and enable HIGHMEM64G in order for Slackware to detect my 4 GB of RAM (i'm still using 32 bit system FYI). After rebooting, voilaa.... it works

So, if you are using Slackware-Current and having problem with the latest XOrg 1.7.5, please make sure you are using Linux kernel 2.6.33 or newer. If the default kernel packages in Slackware-Current doesn't work out for you, i would recommend you to compile your own kernel based on Slackware's config (just to be safe, but you can always make your own config).

Right now i'm compiling Linux 2.6.33 in my desktop. This is my third attempt to upgrade all of my machines and i'm hoping it will work also

Widya Walesa: Using KDE SC 4.4.1 (Alien Bob Built)

noreply@blogger.com (walesa) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:14:39 +0000

Yap, I have downloaded and installed almost all recent updates available from Slackware64-Current tree. And also I have downloaded all Alien Bob's KDE SC 4.4.1 packages and already updated my KDE SC...

[read more on http://wallinux.blogspot.com/]

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: More Minor Changes

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:53:00 +0000

There are a lot of trivial changes happened this day after a massive big one in early March and this batch of update is not an exception. Basically it upgrades several packages while rebuilding other packages.

One security update is also released, which is Samba. Samba now uses 3.5.x instead of sticking with 3.4.x, which is a good measurement to make sure it has the most secure application at the moment.

Here are the changes in the latest -Current changelog:

Sat Mar 13 02:08:44 UTC 2010
a/lvm2-2.02.62-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

a/ntfs-3g-2010.3.6-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

ap/lsof-4.83-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

ap/sqlite-3.6.23-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

d/git-1.7.0.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/hal-0.5.14-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.

l/parted-2.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

n/dhcp-4.1.1-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Add PATH setting to /sbin/dhclient-script.

n/dhcpcd-5.2.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

n/iproute2-2.6.33-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

n/iptables-1.4.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

n/samba-3.5.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
This fixes a security flaw present in Samba 3.3.11, 3.4.6, and 3.5.0 that allows nmbd processes filesystem access when permissions should have denied it. For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0728
(* Security fix *)

xap/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.5-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

Widya Walesa: Slackware 13.0 Security Update - Tue Mar 9 21:31:21 UTC 2010

noreply@blogger.com (walesa) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:35:07 +0000

Here comes again a security fix from openssl package. If you have some encrypted files using older openssl library, maybe you need to upgrade your openssl library using this...

[read more on http://wallinux.blogspot.com/]

Widya Walesa: Slackware 13.0 Security Update - Mon Mar 8 20:49:02 UTC 2010

noreply@blogger.com (walesa) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:33:27 +0000

This is a critical update for Apache HTTPD Server package. Please update your installed httpd package as soon as possible using the provided package. Slackware...

[read more on http://wallinux.blogspot.com/]

Widya Walesa: Slackware 13.0 Security Update - Mon Mar 1 05:02:21 UTC 2010

noreply@blogger.com (walesa) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:30:51 +0000

Slackware team has released several security updates for slackware version 13.0. Those updates are for: openssl, include openssl-solibs proftpd seamonkey, include seamonkey-solibs For complete...

[read more on http://wallinux.blogspot.com/]

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: New Changes

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:59:00 +0000

There are some new changes in the latest -Current batch of updates. Two new tools are introduced while one package is being removed (replaced exactly). The first new package is cpufrequtils, which is used to control how your CPU manage their frequencies. The second package is geeqie which replaced gqview. This package is brought into -Current because gqview is no longer maintained by the developers. I still prefer gwenview which is integrated with KDE for my personal image viewer

Some packages gets rebuilt to fix some problems, such as Mesa, xdm and bash-completion. Now bash-completion works with txz packages, so you no longer have to use * wildcard when working with txz formats. Other packages gets a lift up, such as libraries.

Here are the latest -Current changelog:

Fri Mar 12 05:57:50 UTC 2010
a/cpufrequtils-007-i486-1.txz: Added.

ap/vim-7.2.394-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
Also updated the runtime syntax files.

l/freetype-2.3.12-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/gst-plugins-good-0.10.21-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/gst-plugins-base-0.10.28-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/gstreamer-0.10.28-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

n/mcabber-0.9.10-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

x/mesa-7.7-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Removed --enable-gallium-intel and --enable-gallium-radeon from ./configure.

x/xdm-1.1.9-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added missing /var/lib/xdm directory.

xap/geeqie-1.0-i486-1.txz: Added.
This fork of GQview is actively maintained, and seems improved.

xap/gqview-2.1.5-i486-2.txz: Removed.

xap/vim-gvim-7.2.394-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

extra/bash-completion/bash-completion-1.1-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed txz completion for pkgtools.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Security Update: Pidgin

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:44:00 +0000

Pidgin is finally upgraded on the last update and this time, it is considered a security fix as it fixed several critical vulnerabilities, as described in the Changelog of Pidgin Project.

Ok guys, grab it while it's hot

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: OpenSSL Patched and Rebuilt

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:54:00 +0000

OpenSSL packages has been rebuilt to include a patch which revert some a change that broke decrypting some files encrypted with previous versions of OpenSSL. It's an official patch, so Pat decided to rebuilt the package for public use.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Running Rsync Via Proxy

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:02:00 +0000

One way to get the latest Slackware updates is by running rsync to syncronize your local repository and the main repository that hold the Slackware packages. Eric Hameleers has provided a great script called rsync_current.sh and how i modified this tool has been discussed on my previous post. In general, it works, except for one problem, when your computer is connecting to the Internet through a proxy.

My workstation at my office is connected to the Internet through a proxy, so i can't use normal rsync to work normally. I browsed the web and i found this site which tells us about how we should modify our squid configuration to allow rsync connection from any computer from our local networks. I asked my sysadmin to try this script. He agreed and he updated the squid configuration on the proxy.

Next, i need to update my environment variable RSYNC_PROXY to the host of the proxy and also the port. Let's say you are running a proxy on 192.168.1.1 and port 8080, then you need to run export RSYNC_PROXY="192.168.1.1:8080 and then you can start running your rsync command (or script in my case).

Remember that this change is not permanent. It will last until you close your terminal, so the solution is to add this line into your ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile if you want it to be globaly available to all of your users.

If you want to run the script periodically, you can use cronjobs to do it for you. I set to download the update from Slackware mirrors at around 11 PM at night when the bandwidth is not utilized.

Hope this small article helps you out to work with rsync when you are behind a proxy

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo: Security Update: HTTPD

noreply@blogger.com (Willy Sudiarto Raharjo) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:05:00 +0000

Apache has just released a security update for httpd package and Slackware-Current has included the fix on the latest batch. It fixed three problems described on the Changelog.

Other news is that cupsddk is now being part of the main CUPS package, so we don't need separate package, thus cupsddk package is now removed. OpenSSH is also upgraded to the latest version, which is a major upgrade.

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Mon Mar 8 20:49:02 UTC 2010
ap/cupsddk-1.2.3-i486-2.txz: Removed.
The CUPS Driver Development Kit (DDK) is part of the main CUPS package now.

ap/hplip-3.10.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

n/httpd-2.2.15-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update addresses a few security issues.
mod_ssl: A partial fix for the TLS renegotiation prefix injection attack by rejecting any client-initiated renegotiations.
mod_proxy_ajp: Respond with HTTP_BAD_REQUEST when the body is not sent when request headers indicate a request body is incoming; not a case of HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.
mod_isapi: Do not unload an isapi .dll module until the request processing is completed, avoiding orphaned callback pointers.
[This is the most serious flaw, but does not affect Linux systems]
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3555
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0408
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0425
(* Security fix *)

n/openssh-5.4p1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.