There are few places harder to get to in this world. But therearen't anywhere it's harder to live.The average temperature in Antarctica at the bottom of the Earth is a balmy 58 degrees below.That's when the sun is out.For millions of years they have made their home on the darkest,driest, windiest and coldest continent on Earth.The Penguins.Penguin is technically a bird. Although one that makes his home in the sea. Each year at around the same time he will leave the comfort of his ocean home and embark on a remarkable journey.He will travel a great distance and though he is a bird. he won't fly.Though he lives in the sea. he won't swim. Mostly, he will walk.But he won't walk alone.It is March ......
March of the Penguins ,The IceWalkerz!!


Sound Tracks of "March of the Penguins ", feature film by National Geographic Channel.
What is Linux ? You’d probably say, “Linux is an operating system.” Yes, but remember, however, that the strictest definition of Linux is only the kernel . The more relaxed definition would be an overall package called a distribution that is ready to install and use. There are well over 300 distributions of Linux, most of them containing commonly-needed applications—and even games! Linux was originally meant to be a UNIX clone. Here, by clone,we mean that it would look and behave like UNIX. But bear in mind that Linux does not contain a single line of UNIX code! The source code of the two is entirely different.Linux was officially introduced only in 1991 by its famed creator Linus Torvalds,who at the time was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Little did he know that his creation would grow in size and popularity to the extent it has today.Linux is what it is today because of the help of developers who worked on it not for money but for the kick of it. They were driven by passion and belief in a cause.Did you know that most servers today run on Linux? That means there’s a good chance there’s Linux somewhere behind all those Web pages you see. Linux is not just an OS you use at home instead of Windows; a whole range of enterprise suites are now based on the Linux platform. From network servers to Web servers, several places have Linux as the backbone.There are countless brains at work who pursue the technology—not for money, but out of sheer interest and passion.Linux boasts of some of the best online peer support today. Linux is standing today showing the IT world the innovation that can be achieved by sheer community work. And,Linux is free too. It appears, there is after all something like a free lunch! When the world around you is trying Linux, why would you want to be leaving behind the excitement?

Monday, January 5, 2009

Securing Ubuntu


ProShield is a system administration/security program for Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux. It helps insure that your system is secure and up-to-date by checking many different aspects of your system. Whether you are a Linux novice or a system administrator with a dozen servers, ProShield is designed to be usable by all. Its main goal is to help secure a newly installed computer, as well as maintain the security of an existing machine. It's part security and part security administration.

The main features of ProShield are:
* Helps you backup your system weekly.
* Checks for new software releases, in order to see if installed software is reasonably up to date. Smart-suggestion to upgrade if an important package is released.
* Disk-space check to find any partitions that are 70% full or more.
* Checks for extra root accounts.
* Checks account & password files for correct access control
* Makes sure a few security-hazardous packages are not installed.
* Checks to make sure a packet sniffer is not running.
* Removes unneeded packages from the local package archive.
* Checks to see if 'apt' is fetching unnecessary information when checking for software updates.
* Makes sure system time is accurate.
* Checks to make sure the user isn't logged into the system (GUI) as root.
* Checks the configuration of the ssh server ([sshd] if installed) for insecure settings.
* At runtime, ProShield will also check to see if there has been a new version released, and can download and install it at the user's preference.

When the program is done analyzing your system, it displays an "advisory report", and then (if necessary), guides you through a series of interactive questions to help you solve any problems it found.

ProShield is released as a Debian package, ready for easy installation. After installation, type "proshield" to start the program (you need to do this in a shell/terminal).

Download the latest version: ProShield v3.8.19

Easy Install:
If you don't know what a Debian package is, or you'd just like to install ProShield painlessly right now, you can paste this command into a shell/terminal: (you should also use this if you intend to install the ProShield package from the command line, as this method will resolve dependencies)

wget http://proshield.sf.net/ps-install
sudo sh ps-install
rm ps-install
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