Monthly Archives: April 2011
Nessus with Metasploit — Track and Hack
Networks play an important role in a sysadmin's life. But have you ever wondered about the security of your network, or tried to find...
Confidently Deploy .NET Applications on Linux+Mono with Delphi Prism
This article aims to address the main problems that developers currently endure in developing and deploying cross-platform .NET enterprise applications to the Linux platform.
Since...
Layer 7 Load Balancers
Linux has proven itself as a rock-solid operating system platform for industry-leading software appliances and applications, one of which is for load-balancing. As global...
Advanced Nmap: NMap Script Scanning
In previous articles, we have studied NMap in great detail, including live scanning a firewall and verifying the recommendations. Now, it's time to study...
Saving Private GRUB: Remotely Restoring MBR on an Enterprise Server
Corporate hardware systems differ from their conventional desktop counterparts primarily because they have a number of interesting features. For example, they provide an ability...
Get that Search Button Working with Apache Solr!
Search is probably the most important component of an application when it comes to finding valuable data, and that is precisely what Solr has...
Understanding Middleware with Apache ActiveMQ
Even though "middleware" might seem like a close cousin of Tolkien's Middle Earth, it's a fairly modern term in computer software and services, and...
Digital Forensic Analysis Using BackTrack, Part 2
In Part 1, we saw the digital forensics capabilities of the BackTrack Live Linux distribution, and focused on the first phase of digital forensic...
FreedomYUG: Don’t Sell Your Love Cheap
How to Successfully Earn a Living with FOSS -- Part 3
Don't take it -- a job that allows you to do what you love.
For...
Joy of Programming: Abort, Retry, Fail?
Exception handling is tricky to get right. In this column, I present some guidelines for writing good exception handling code, by giving real-world (counter)...
