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Shell Script for running Wireshark to capture 802.11 traffic on a specific channel

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:34:29 -0700

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

Microsoft's New Patent

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:31:09 -0700

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.

Latest version of Amanda available for Fedora 7

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:53:44 -0700

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 boot loader

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:29:18 -0700

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

Is The Open Source Movement Hurting?

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:05:53 -0700

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.

Fedora in Gran Buenos Aires Schools

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:12:08 -0700

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.

Very quick install nVidia drivers on Fedora (any)

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:54:06 -0700

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.

FudCon Linuxtag 2007 (Update)

Thu, 31 May 2007 01:07:39 -0700

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 ;-)

Linuxtag 2007 - Thuesday

Tue, 29 May 2007 23:45:35 -0700

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.

Linuxtag 2007 - The Travel - a car full Fedora

Mon, 28 May 2007 06:45:01 -0700

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.

Kudos Red Hat

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:08:05 -0700

Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice president of engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com.

"Interoperability done on closed APIs isn't interoperability,' Cormier said. 'We'll never do interoperability based on closed APIs.

My sentiments exactly.

Microsoft vs Opensource

Tue, 15 May 2007 10:37:57 -0700

Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told Fortune that open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents, it sent tremors through the tech industry.

It's ironic that Microsoft is making these statements, considering how they benefited from a ruling by the Supreme Court last week that stated U.S. companies could not sue other U.S. companies in U.S. courts for patents infringed upon in other countries. Is Microsoft really going to seek royalties from every company in the world that is using some version of Linux?

Congrats on RedHat Global Desktop

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:36:23 -0700

Congratulations on Redhat Global Desktop announcement.

Exciting times indeed!!

I also like what Mr. Szulik had to say:

http://www.crn.com/software/199500294

nice to see a CEO these days not be from marketing.

two quotes I think are great.

"In a press conference at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego, Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik said customers have been asking for better interoperability for 14 years and have received nothing from Microsoft. True interoperability, he said, will be achieved by supporting open standards at the middleware layer in a service-oriented environment, not through private corporate partnerships."

Fedora Activities in Argentina

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:59:06 -0700

As Leader of the CoreTeam of Proyecto Fedora Argentina, the activities day by day are pretty hard. Dedicated almost 4 hours per day to talk to Universities (the main target of the local project) creating contents for the websites, strategic agreements with non profit organizations and thigns like that, takes our work to the limit. But this limit is the deepest sensation of "make the difference" .

Fedora and the PS3.

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:23:35 -0700

So we have heard so much about IBM Cell BE.

How about Fedora on the PS3, people have been getting FC5 PPC to run on it but this is just a general build and has not been optimized for 'Cell' and thus run like a G4.

No big deal running a PPC build but how about a Cell build ?

If we could optimized the core parts of Fedora for Cell then we could have massive (20-30)% increases in speed; What i mean by 'core parts' is the Kernel, Xorg, Init ect...