NetworkManager Firewall

 Posted on May 30, 2007  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  132 words  |  

Currently, there’s no simple framework in NetworkManager for Firewalling support. Here’s one way you can provide a simple and minimal firewall setup for your box controlled by NM. Create the following files: rrs@learner:~$ cat /etc/network/if-up.d/firewall #!/bin/bash if [ $IFACE == “lo” ]; then echo; else /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -m state –state NEW,INVALID -j DROP; fi rrs@learner:~$ cat /etc/network/if-down.d/firewall #!/bin/bash if [ $IFACE == “lo” ]; then echo; else [Read More]

NetworkManager Debian Network Interfaces

 Posted on May 30, 2007  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  366 words  |  

So many of you might be aware of NetworkManager. The big new tool from RedHat does simplify Network Configuration on your Linux box. But there lies a small problem with NetworkManager. It is very picky about what it is going to touch and what not. Here’s a paragraph from the README.Debian file: Configuration of wireless and ethernet interfaces Only devices that are *not* listed in /etc/network/interfaces or which have been configured "auto" and "dhcp" (with no other options) are managed by NM. [Read More]

K Addressbook LDAP Bug

 Posted on March 17, 2007  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  3 minutes  |  522 words  |  

For those who are stuck up with using Kontact with an Exchange server should have experiences of how difficult it is to get everything properly working. For instance, address book is an issue. Assuming that your exchange server holds more that 10,000 user records, it is going to be a challenging task to get your addressbook configurd to fetch those addresses. A friend of mine figured out that this was rather a bug with either ldap or exchange (in that case a feature) which restricted the query response to 1000 replies. [Read More]

FuseCompress

 Posted on March 9, 2007  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  185 words  |  

So recently I tried to look at what all projects I monitored using a RCS. The list I ended up with was: Open iSCSI Beryl Linux LVM Device Mapper KDE Wow!! That itself is huge. I then looked at the space consumption for these projects and that led to 4.1 GB. That’s too much of space taken away. Now, since most of the contentt is text in these projects, I thought why not find out a way to use them with compression beneath. [Read More]

luvcview debian package

 Posted on January 31, 2007  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  8 words  |  

Updated luvcview debian package. Version is 20070107.

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Using latest Beryl in Debian

 Posted on December 7, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  263 words  |  

Most GNU/Linux desktop users today are aware of the new 3D enhancements brought to the desktop. Namely Compiz and Beryl. Compiz is already present in Debian but Beryl isn’t and will not be included until Etch is released, which probably is expected to be released in another 3 months. Beryl looks to be primarily focused on Ubuntu which IMO is not good but I can’t comment much because I haven’t contributed to it. [Read More]

luvcview Debian Package

 Posted on November 22, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  23 words  |  

luvcview is a camera viewer for UVC driver based webcams

I’ve packaged a .deb for it which can be fetched from:

http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor- pkglist?action=details;package=luvcview

knetstats for Debian Etch/Sid

 Posted on November 12, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  193 words  |  

Debian is a great OS Distribution. It itself is a great community. But there are times when Debian is very frustrating also. Like many of the packages go on a very slow pace. Truly speaking, there isn’t much a person can ask the Debian community given the amount of contribution it makes. I was looking for knetstats package but couldn’t find much help. The ITP against knetstats is more than 100 days but still not entered into Debian. [Read More]

root-tail on KDE desktop

 Posted on November 12, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  137 words  |  

For many who don’t know, root-tail is a small utility which can write to your Desktop’s Screen (Often called the root window). It is mainly used to display critical system messages. I’ve been a root-tail fan for long. It like the idea of displaying syslog messages on my desktop. It almost fixes 50% of my problems. The problem with KDE is that it drwas its own Desktop image on top of the root window because of which you can’t see the messages drawn by root-tail. [Read More]