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Welcome, readers, to the Linux Newsletter, a specifically-named
weekly mailing on the broad topics of open source administration,
development, and uses. Here are this week's related articles
from the O'Reilly Network:
Noel Davis started the week with another Security Alerts
column. This week, he reported on potential remote vulnerabilities
in Apache's mod_ssl, mpg123, Cyrus SASL, MySQL, ProFTPD, and
Squid. Please check with your vendor for more information.
(Oh, and Red Hat and Fedora users, please don't fall for the
"RedHat" vulnerability warning. It's two words.)
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/10/19/security_alerts.html>
"Registration required" isn't always bad. There are several
useful web application possibilities where you can generate
custom data on the server for specific users to download
later. The trick is in allowing them to make the downloads
later. Fortunately, Robert Bernier's "Allowing Registration-
Required Binary Downloads" has a solution:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/10/21/binary_downloads.html>
If you've taken the wireless plunge (sounds scary phrased that
way), you may find the idea of your precious packets skipping
relatively unprotected through the ether somewhat alarming.
WEP and MAC address filtering help, but they're not the end
of all security. Dan Langille has a better, if more complicated,
option in "Secure Your Wireless with IPsec":
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/21/wifi_ipsec.html>
Speaking of protecting your precious packets, even the wired
internet at large can be a frightening place. In a recent
article, Scott Brumbaugh explained the cryptographic foundations
of Virtual Private Networks. True to form, we didn't stop
there. This week, his "Deploying a VPN with PKI" demonstrates
how to set up your own VPN to make sure that your secrets stay
secrets even out in public:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/security/2004/10/21/vpns_and_pki.html>
This week's book excerpt comes from the upcoming Gaming Hacks
(which should be in stores tomorrow). "Gaming Hacks for Geeks,
Part I" walks through the process of creating macros for Star
Wars Galaxies and Final Fantasy XI:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/gmhks_1004/>
In this week's weblogs, Niel M. Bornstein points out some
cool Mono apps:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5760>
Chris Adamson wonders about there being no new PowerBook for
Christmas:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5768>
Rael Dornfest declares that Firefox has won the browser handover:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5769>
Nitesh Dhanjani finds real internet access through ssh tunnels
in the sky:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5780>
Jose Mojica laments the death of easy-to-program VB:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5781>
Chris Shifless gladly points to a Firefox extension for del.icio.us:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5787>
Matthew Gast loves remote TiVo scheduling:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5792>
Scot Hacker wonders if there's a Movable Type equivalent for wikis:
<http://weblogs.oreilly.com/pub/wlg/5794>
This week's Open Source Project of the Week is Mambo, a highly
popular content management system with a vibrant user community:
<http://osdir.com/Downloads+index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-744-ttitle-Mambo.phtml>
That's all for now. Next week we'll talk about OpenBSD 3.6.
Until then,
chromatic
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O'Reilly Network
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. PC Hacks for Linux
PC Hacks author Jim Aspinwall handpicks two Linux-specific
hacks to share from his new book. Whether Linux just won't
boot or it isn't as zippy as you'd expect, help is merely a
hack away. Jim will teach you how to recover your system's
boot-ability as well as how to test and optimize Linux's settings
for the best hard drive performance.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/excerpt/pchacks_50_67/>
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2. Secure Your Wireless with IPsec
Wireless can make your life much, much easier, but those pesky
radio waves won't stay put. Sometimes this is good, but sometimes
you want to lock down your network. WEP and MAC address filtering
aren't secure enough. IPsec, the same approach used to secure
VPNs, is much better. Dan Langille explains how to configure
Wifi with IPsec.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/21/wifi_ipsec.html>
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3. Speeding up Linux Using hdparm
Instantly double the I/O performance of your disks or, in
some cases, show 6 to 10 times your existing throughput!
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html>
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4. Storming the Microsoft Edifice
In the battle for open source and open standards on user
desktops, applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla
Firefox are stealthily winning small skirmishes. Sam Hiser
describes the situation in terms of Monty Python's "Trojan
rabbit."
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/10/14/storming_microsoft_edifice.html>
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5. mod_ssl Problems
Noel Davis looks at problems in mod_ssl, LibTIFF, mpg123,
LessTif, the Cyrus SASL library, MySQL, CUPS, ProFTPD, and
the Squid web proxy cache.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/10/19/security_alerts.html>
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