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I wrote the script to enable capturing 802.11 traffic on wireshark in monitor mode on a specific channel .
Written Tested on Fedora 7
Tested also on CentOS 5 and Ubuntu 7.04

Usage: ./capture.sh -i [interface] -c [channel number]

Raz

Last week the U.S. Patents Office issued a new patent to Microsoft, patent 7,269,853, it has to with the method for notifying people when a privacy policy has changed and locking them out of their data unless and until they agree to the change. Is this what the future may hold for individuals or companies who are considering buying into the “software as a service” model that so many companies are moving towards. Microsoft and Google and many other software companies want to stop selling software and instead charge you monthly rent.

Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com/) is one of the popular open source network backup and recovery software. It supports various versions of Linux, UNIX, MacOS X and Microsoft Windows.

Amanda 2.5.2p1, latest version of Amanda is available for downloads at Zmanda downloads page (http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php). RPMs for Fedora core 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are available.

New features in Amanda 2.5.2 release are documented in the Amanda wiki (http://wiki.zmanda.com).

Repair your corrupted bootloader(GRUB)

GRUB is 'located' in the MBR. There are situtations in which you overwrite your MBR,like reinstalling windows after a linux installation.This will corrupt your GRUB.

If you had a fedora installation and want to repair your GRUB,do the following

Boot from your linux rescue cd(or the first installation cd or DVD).
At the first prompt type
linux rescue

The open source is hurting to some degree, it's the same problem the mobile phone industry is having. People got accustomed to getting a free phone when they signed up for service, and the phone itself at least in the perception of the consumer had no real value (It was free after all.) when in reality the phone wasn't free, the consumer paid for it on the back end, in the form of a monthly service plan and if they discontinued service, an early disconnect fee. The open source community is having the same perception problem. They perceive free, and therefore the product has no true value.

As part of the continous program to spread Fedora around Argentina, we start to give some talks in technicall schoolls in "Gran Buenos Aires Distric" (This part o BA City includes some metropolis around the Federal City, including some important and strategic universities, including La Plata City.

In spite of give some interesting talks in UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) and the forthcoming UAI Talks, we are going to intermediate technical scholls (a mix between preparatory and University) where we will met almost 70 people in next talk. This will be in the Queen Mary Institute, located in Remedios de Escalada Town, Lanus City in the SouthSide of Gran Buenos Aires District. We will start to talk at 11:00AM Next July 2nd, and we will start a new FUG (Fedora User Group) in that school. The challenge is talk to young startes in Technology from 15 to 19 age. This will be very exciting for Ar Team, cause, we will begin to get more aundience, than never before.

Installation of nVidia drivers was described in http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2852 story. But I know faster method.

* Install Livna repo information

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm

* Install nVidia driver

yum -y install kmod-nvidia

That's all.

Hi Folks,
i sit here in the Fedora 7 opening Talk on Linuxtag 2007 and have a little time to post
Yesterday there was no way for me to post something.
Today we will held our FudCon and it will be a success, because there will be brilliant Speakers not at last Alan Cox.

Update Thursday:

I am back from the FudCon and in preparation for the social event.
Alan Cox, suddenly he appeared on our booth, he was relaxed and kind he signed some KernelPosters for us to sell and then he hanging around with us on the Fedora Booth. There where so much more people then yesterday on our Booth, much discussions about all and nothing ;-)

I arrived the Exhibition Messe Berlin - Linuxtag can start :-P
Gerold and the other Ambassadors are not on the booth at 12:00 for the build up as it was planned so i must wait - and wait - and wait!!!
02:30PM Yiippee they made it to our Booth, i can unload my car and the Team can build up the Fedora Booth.
Later we met Max and Mike in the hotel. Max was pleased to see some people from the Fosdem Crew and from FudCon Boston.

After the FOSDEM - CLT Rally in February and March, i was exhausted and i actually planned to enjoy the Linuxtag Berlin 2007 first as a visitor and second as a Ambassador.

But it has called me again and i will do my Job as Ambassador first ;-). I plan to write down some words here on a fedora blog about what's happening.

Due to the tremendous work of the other German Ambassadors and the Support of RedHat Germany - my Car is exploding with SWAG, FedoraStuff (BestQuality-Basecaps, T-Shirts, Wristbands, Poloshirts, Flyer, KernelPoster, FedoraPoster ...) and some Hardware.