Archive for

July, 2008

...

Personal Fedora 9 Installation Guide

no comments

Here’s a repeat of a previous entry on Fedora installation, this time for version 9:

“Personal Fedora 9 Installation Guide” by Mauriat Miranda
(http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html)

For the quick version:

yum -y update

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

yum -y install thunderbird gqview glipper gstreamer-plugins-ugly vcdimager dvdauthor mjpegtools mencoder gnome-mplayer mplayer-fonts kino xine libdvdcss amarok xmms-mp3 kdemultimedia-extras k3b-extras-nonfree kover libcddb azureus bittorrent-gui mozplugger gtkpod hugin digikam enblend easytag pidgin-otr bash-completion obexfs flash-plugin AdobeReader_enu amarok-extras-nonfree vlc gnome-volume-manager qt4-x11 emacs kdiff3 kdegraphics gnucash

wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc7
rpm -ivh /tmp/skype-2.0.0.43-fc5.i586.rpm

wget -O /tmp/all-20071007.tar.bz2 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
tar -jxvf /tmp/all-20071007.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/

This should take care of most media players, flash and pdf plugins, Skype, and iPod support through gtkpod, and other useful programs.

Windows infected in five minutes

no comments

Slashdot is reporting on a study from SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center which shows that an unpatched Windows XP box will be infected after about five minutes on the Internet. German researchers found that it took slightly longer, however the conclusion still holds:

“While the survival time varies quite a bit across methods used, pretty much all agree that placing an unpatched Windows computer directly onto the Internet in the hope that it downloads the patches faster than it gets exploited are odds that you wouldn’t bet on in Vegas.”

Flight photos over Sarpsborg

no comments

During my last trip to Norway, I used the new Moss/Rygge airport and flew via Copenhagen. During both flights we crossed right over Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad and Sandbakken, and I also had a beautiful view of Svinesund and Koster. I’ve updated the picture section we some flight photos:

http://hblok.net/pictures/public/misc/flights


Bad Behavior has blocked 114 access attempts in the last 7 days.