Damn Vulnerable Linux

If you need an all-in-one great penetration testing kit, look at Backtrack. If you need a test bed to try out your penetration testing skills, look at Damn Vulnerable Linux. Yes. There actually is something with that snazzy name. It is a small Linux distribution, based on Damn Small Linux, which provides a vulnerable platform [...]

Space tabs are evil.

I take back what I said earlier.
Tabulators are the way to go. Spaces in place of tabs really suck. I learned it the hard way. If you go ahead and re-indent a piece of code that is space tabulated, you will know how quickly the spaces leap out to bite you (and also how nastily [...]

Hats off to Fedora Core 6 (all the pun that can be intended intended)

I think there is a pun somewhere there in the topic.

BBBart threw my attention to Eric Steve Raymond’s rant-cum-open-letter in which he vents out his frustrations on Fedora Core and Red Hat, in general, and Fedora Core 6, in particular. I can’t say whether he did the right thing coming out like that, but I [...]

Fedora Core 6: A few quirks you need to watch out for.

Trying Fedora Core 6 out, I had a horrifying experience. The last Red Hat-like distribution I had installed was Red Hat-9.0 (codenamed Shrike, if I remember correctly), and that must have been years ago. I discovered Slackware (years ago) and migrated to it. Ever since (years ago), I’ve stuck with Slackware (and quite contentedly so). [...]

syslog-ng: the neXGen syslog

syslog-ng is a flexible, scalable, easy-to-use logging system that works on Unix and Linux platforms. syslog-ng does what the stock syslog does and much much more. It is syslog enhanced in terms of functionality (I don’t know if it works on the codebase of syslog). I wouldn’t do justice to it if I described it [...]