All articles from: August, 2009

How to bypass SMTP-Authentication on Postfix

SMTP Authentication is a scheme which was introduced in 1999 by J. Myers of Netscape Communications and finally released as RFC 2554 (“SMTP Service Extension for Authentication”). It is partly based on the SMTP Service Extensions as defined in RFC 1869.

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How to upgrade Clam Anti-virus (Clamav) on Centos

My email server is using Postfix as the MTA and Clamav as the anti-virus software running on Centos 5. Today I check the version of Clamav installed on it and it is already out-dated so I need to upgrade to the latest stable version. The installed version of clamav is ClamAV 0.94 whereas the latest stable version is ClamAV 0.95.2.

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How to solve error slapt-get incomplete download

The ‘slapt-get -u’ for updating the list of available upgraded softwares is fine but while executing the ‘slapt-get –upgrade’ to upgrade the available softwares was failed with an error message “Failed to download: Incomplete download”. Retrying the same way three times still got the same result.

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Facebook to face off with new Web rivals

Facebook’s vision of becoming a utility that offers activities to keep people online for hours could set it on a collision course with the Web’s giants.

In recent days, the No.1 social networking company revamped its search engine and bought a start-up that some call a rival to hot micro-blogging service Twitter. It is also testing a stripped-down version of its service to boost growth overseas and is developing an electronic payments system.

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Android OS Screenshots installed on Virtualbox Opensolaris 2009.06

Android OS is an operating system developed by Google based on Linux kernel. Firstly this OS is for mobile phones in respond of Apple’s iPhone but now it can be installed on netbooks also. Here are some screenshots to take a look

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Test IPv6 Implementation on Solaris (OpenSolaris) and Linux (Slackware)

This tutorial will try to implement IP Address version 6 on Opensolaris 2009.06 and Linux (Slackware 12.2). Both OS are already support IPv6 by default so we just enable/activate it.
The schenario of this test is using direct connection between the two OSes and using existing private IP addresses. IPv6 makes it very easy to assign existing addresses.

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Microsoft patches 19 bugs in sweeping security update

Microsoft today delivered nine security updates that patched 19 vulnerabilities in several crucial components of Windows, as well as in Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, IIS (Internet Information Server), Office and several other products.

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Quick Install MySQL from source distribution

This tutorial will show you how to install MySQL server from source distribution. I use Linux for this tutorial but it should be application in other UNIXs operating system.

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