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LINUX For You
August 2010 Issue
Vol. 8 No. 6
Open Gurus
Securing Apache, Part 1
Targeted at readers with Web security concerns, information security experts, systems administrators and all those who want to jump-start their careers in Web security, this series of articles intends to cover the strengthening of Web applications and the Apache Web server framework, as well as any possible attacks against both.
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Admin
Visiting Netfilter
Let’s create a small packet-filter firewall using the Netfilter packet filtering library available in Linux. The aim is to help network programming newbies understand socket buffers and Netfilter better.
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Admin
Learning About Nmap
Nmap, the network mapping tool, is the starting point when analysing any network. It is an exciting tool—compact and power-packed. This article looks at the range of functions and options it supports.
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Admin
Build an HA Stateful Fail-over Firewall Cluster on Linux
This article shows you how to configure a highly available (HA) stateful firewall cluster that will meet all your needs for a modern firewall infrastructure. The components of the cluster are the Linux OS, iptables, conntrackd, keepalived, and fwbuilder to manage the policies. All the components used here are open source, which means you don’t have to pay a single penny to build your stateful firewall cluster
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Developers
Thinking Beyond Unit Testing
This article is intended for those who want to verify and improve code quality, and to delve into unit testing.
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For U & Me
Let's Play with Emacs CLI
Text editors are very important tools for developers. In this article, I am going to discuss the basics of the Emacs text editor, which I have found very powerful.
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For U & Me
Hey, Researcher! Here Are Some Open Source Tools For You!
In this article, I will take a look at getting going with LaTeX, Gnuplot, GNU Octave, Python scientific libraries, Beamer, and some other tools and libraries. On Linux, you can focus on the real job instead of bothering about setting up your tools. This article is therefore an unabashed claim about how cool it is to work with these tools while you focus on your research.
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For U & Me
Blender for Novices The User Interface, Part—1
Blender is a free, powerful and open source 3D graphics program, but it can be daunting for a beginner. Fear not! In this series, we will explore this wonderful tool, starting with the essential facts about Blender’s user interface.
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Developers
Exploring the Dynamics of Pipelining
Pipelining is a technique used in the design of computers and other digital electronic devices to increase the instruction throughput. In this article, we will look at the concept behind pipelining.
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Open Gurus
Programming Using Glade and Perl,Part 1
This article is the first in a series that covers the use of Glade, the GTK User Interface designer tool, to craft GTK UIs programmed in Perl.
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Open Gurus
Using Likewise to Integrate Linux with MS Active Directory
In this article, the author recounts his experience with Likewise, which was used to integrate Linux systems with Microsoft Active Directory, and also adds usage tips.
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Admin
OpenLDAP for User Authentication, Part 5
In the last article, we created an openLDAP-based address book with basic data. In this article, we will focus on Centralised Network Authentication—a basic requirement of the networked world. Modern-day users centrally authenticate to a plethora of services that range from Web e-mail service providers and office desktop passwords to ticket-booking sites for travel, entertainment, etc. Most of these sites and office servers save at least the username/password attributes in a centralised directory. In this article, we will configure Linux clients for authentication through a centralised directory.
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Players
Sakshay Web Technologies Go Global With Open Source!
Noida-based Sakshay Web Technologies uses open source to overcome tough business challenges.
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Column
FreedomYug: For Your MP3-Ears Only
Can see me through the knight-in-shining-armour
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Column
Exploring Software: Free Shared Libraries!
It is time that package-management applications free shared libraries from artificial shackles, and create a more dynamic and versatile distribution.
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Column
CodeSport
Welcome to this month’s CodeSport, where we will continue our discussion on algorithms to support mutual exclusion, a fundamental necessity in concurrent programming.
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Column
The Joy of Programming: Understanding Constants and Pointers
Using const qualifiers with pointers is a common source of confusion for most programmers learning C. In this column, we’ll discuss the difference between a constant pointer, a pointer to const and a pointer constant.
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Column: A Voyage to the Kernel
Part 5
Segment: 4.5, Day 24
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Column: BraveGNUWorld
Changing Layouts
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LFY: DVD
Open SUSE 11.3 Installation DVD
A Linux-based complete operating system that can be used across a range of desktops and servers. It comes updated with Linux 2.6.34, GNOME 2.30.1, KDE SC 4.4.4, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6 and Thunderbird 3.0.5.
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LFY: CD
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
NetBeans IDE 6.9
An IDE for software developers to create professional desktop, enterprise, Web, and mobile applications
Eclipse Classic 3.6.0
A multi-language software development environment
Lazarus IDE
A stable and feature-rich visual programming environment for the FreePascal
Code::Blocks
A cross-platform IDE for C/C++
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