In Ubuntu
$sudo apt-get install screen screen-profiles screen-profiles-extras

$select-screen-profile

and choose favorite profile

to be continued..

As a Windows 7 Ultimate user, I can say that Microsoft has improved a lot since their previous ‘failed’ version of OS which is Windows Vista. for me, I can say Win 7 is the combination of Win XP fast loading process + Win Vista nice GUI. To make it short:

Win XP + Win Vista = Win 7

Here I want to share some of the Win 7 desktop gadgets that i use:

and my favorite for network gadget is using Xirrus,

I know this alert has been out for about a month.. but i’m pretty sure MANY of the windows user out there are not aware of this. This is still ‘panas’ as many of those who knew this will try on the local network to see the results.

If you think you are not affected, think again. List of windows operating systems that are vulnerable:
* Windows Vista Service Pack 0, Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
* Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 0, Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 0 and Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems, Service Pack 0 and Service Pack 2
* Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based, Service Pack 0 and Service Pack 2

this probably including the Windows 7 versions. Users are advice to follow steps here

or install the fix by microsoft here

as shown here, my friends link on the exploit been done.. you’ve been warned

The Veil by Dawud Wharnsby Ali

They say, “Oh, poor girl, you’re so beautiful you know
It’s a shame that you cover up your beauty so.”
She just smiles and graciously responds reassuringly,
“This beauty that I have is just one simple part of me.
This body that I have, no stranger has the right to see.
These long clothes, this shawl I wear, ensure my modesty.
Faith is more essential than fashion, wouldn’t you agree?” This hijab,
This mark of piety,
Is an act of faith, a symbol,
For all the world to see.
A simple cloth, to preserve her dignity.
So lift the veil from your heart to see the heart of purity.

They tell her, “Girl, don’t you know this is the West and you are free?
You don’t need to be oppressed, ashamed of your femininity.”
She just shakes her head and she speaks so assuredly,
“See the bill-boards and the magazines that line the check-out isles,
with their phony painted faces and their air-brushed smiles?
Well their sheer clothes and low cut gowns they are really not for me.
You call it freedom, I call it anarchy.”

This hijab,
This mark of piety,
Is an act of faith, a symbol,
For all the world to see.
A simple cloth, to preserve her dignity.
So lift the veil from your heart to see the heart of purity.
Lift the veil from your heart and seek the heart of purity.

In VmWare ESXi 4, VMWare Inc has apparently restricted Remote Command Line Interface (RCLI) administration of the free version of ESXi. The write permission are not possible since we need to upgrade it to full licensed one. This simple tuto is to enable the snmp via rcli

The VSphere Client 4.0 cannot enable/configure snmp on the VmWare ESXi 4. I’ve found that we can enable/configure snmp on Vmware ESXi 4 through the RCLI (remote command line) that are available on Windows and Linux.

Download the RCLI application from the vmware site and install it.

After that, open the Vmware Vsphere CLI.
To start configure, type in the console(in this example, my ESXi IP is 192.168.117.116, destination is 192.168.117.115:

vicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.117.116 -c public -t 192.168.117.115@162/public

insert the esxi username and password.

To enable it type:

vicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.117.116 -E

To show config:

vicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.117.116 -s

To test configuration:

vicfg-snmp –server 192.168.117.116 -T

I have encountered issue with free licensed esxi since it gaves me this error in the first attempt. This is because the write permission has been disabled on the free version:

“Failed : fault.RestrictedVersion.summary”

But, there is a trick where we can write the configuration file:

Go to VMWare Vsphere Client -> Configuration -> Licensed Features -> Edit-> Change to evaluation mode, No License key (if u have not registered/no license, this shouldnt be a problem).

When you have change it, go back to RCLI and try again the first command. This should settle the read/write permission and you can set/configure snmp on Vmware esxi4.

p/s: if error still occur, try rebooting the hosts.

Example below are the configuration:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>vicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.117.116 -s
Enter username: root
Enter password:********
Current SNMP agent settings:
Enabled : 1
UDP port : 161

Communities :
public

Notification targets :
192.168.117.115@162/public
——————————————————————
then, try to snmpwalk from another host:

$snmpwalk -v1 -c public 192.168.117.116
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-181792 VMware, Inc. x86_ 64
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.6876.4.1
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (15501613) 1 day, 19:03:36.13
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: not set
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: VMserver.localdomain
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: not set
SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 72
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORLastChange.0 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00
————-more————-

After we have finished setting up the snmp, we can insert back in the VMware VSphere Client our licensed that have been registered with the VMWare ESXi 4.

done.

This example is on spam detection on one of emails detected:

Return-path:
Envelope-to: xxx@xxxx.com
Delivery-date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:16:49 +0800
Received: from svarog.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.55])
by server24.mynehosting.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from )
id 1Mzs6M-0004qk-CW
for xxx@xxxx.com; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:16:48 +0800
Received: from User (173-15-205-100-BusName-Richmond.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.15.205.100])
(authenticated bits=0)
by svarog.email.starband.net (8.13.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9JDGNB3026788;
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:16:28 -0400
Message-Id: <200910191316.n9JDGNB3026788@svarog.email.starband.net>
Reply-To:
From: “Mr. Thomas Lang”
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:16:17 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=”Windows-1251″
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/9909/Sun Oct 18 18:55:53 2009 on svarog.email.starband.net
X-Virus-Status: Clean
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by svarog.email.starband.net id n9JDGNB3026788
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=13.4
X-Spam-Score: 134
X-Spam-Bar: +++++++++++++
X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system “server24.mynehosting.net”, has
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn’t spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
the administrator of that system for details.
Content preview: Dear Friend, My name is Mr. Thomas Lang the owner and Ceo
of TLANG GROUP OF COMPANY LTD in China. I sell my products( Polymeric Polyol
and other products for world trade) to my customers in U.S.A,Canada and Uk
which i find it very difficult in receiving my payments from them in the
past as they have requested to pay through a direct wire transfer into a home
equity line of credit account. I have had a lot of experiences in the past
when they were paying through checks and money orders. [...]
Content analysis details: (13.4 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
—- ———————- ————————————————–
1.6 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header
2.7 DEAR_FRIEND BODY: Dear Friend? That’s not very dear!
0.7 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
2.0 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
2.2 FAKE_REPLY_C FAKE_REPLY_C
4.2 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
X-Spam-Flag: YES
Subject: ***SPAM*** Re: Be my company representative in USA for mutual benefit!!

Notice that the email that have been sent to receiver violating the rules (bold one), Spam Assassin will notify us in the email that this email is a possible spam. Change configuration in CPanel either you want to automatically delete the spam or create your own rules.

http://www.barracudacentral.org/

Setting your timezone

The timezone under Linux is set by a symbolic link from /etc/localtime to a file in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory that corresponds with what timezone you are in. For example, since I’m in Kuala Lumpur, /etc/localtime is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kuala_Lumpur. To set this link, type:

ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/your/zone /etc/localtime

Replace your/zone with something like Asia/Kuala_Lumpur or Asia/Pontianak etc etc. Have a look in the directories under /usr/share/zoneinfo to see what timezones are available.

p/s: if u dont have any issue with timezone juzt type:

$sudo ntpdate ntp.jaring.my
19 Oct 12:12:58 ntpdate[6505]: adjust time server 61.6.32.61 offset 0.027651 sec

$date

Mon Oct 19 12:13:42 MYT 2009

..if correct, its done

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For OpenBSD :

What follows is setting up ntpd as a client

• step 1 – Create the file /etc/rc.conf.local if it doesn’t exist
• step 2 – Edit rc.conf.local so ntpd will run at boot-up
• step 3 – Setting the NTP server that will be used to check time

$ touch /etc/rc.conf.local

$ echo ntpd_flags=\”-s\” >> /etc/rc.conf.local

                         (so ntpd runs at startup)

Edit the /etc/ntpd.conf file, adding the time server to be used

$ sudo nano /etc/ntpd.conf

in configuration file, edit/add ntp server, comment out others unnecessary

# sync to a single server
server ntp.jaring.my

after that, check

$ grep ntpd /var/log/daemon

if nothing happens, try restarting service/host. done