So I upgraded to Fedora 10 and my VMWare stoped working as expected and comented on my last post.
After testing, playing and surfing for I while I found this post which gave me some ideas. This his how I got it working:
TERM=dumb /usr/bin/vmware-modconfig –console –install-all –icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/vmware-workstation.png –appname=”VMware Workstation”
So have fun
Well it’s official I’m a published writer!
About a week ago I finally got my copy from the editor of Hacking Linux Exposed 3rd Edition. This was a really interesting project I worked on last year. The book was writen in collaboraton, and organized by ISECOM, so I got a chance to work with a lot of top notch guys and gals in the security / Linux area.
It’s a shame I couldn’t have some face time with them, but I hope we’ll meet somewhere along the line to match a face with the name.
I started out helping as a technical reviewer on the book, basically I got the chance to read the book in advance and give some feedback. After some time major changes had to be made on some chapters, complete rewrites in some cases. Pete Herzog asked me if I could help out with one of the chapters.
So to make a long story short, if your read chapter 14: Mail Services; that will be me.
I haven’t had time to read the published edition, but all the chapters I got to review were just great.
I can’t agree more with Pete Herzog when I wrote:
The book will help people focus on securing their Linux systems no matter what they do with it– desktop, services, coding workbench, wireless node, PBX, VOIP, etc. by hacking them, it just doesn’t waste your time with old exploits.
Have fun and get ready for a hell of a ride!
I’ve been looking actively for an open source replacement for Visio, the programs work but the main weakness is the lack of the “stencils” or figures to make the diagrams. The artwork that I found is really lacking the help of a designer.
I checked out Dia 0.96.1 which I had used before and it works really good but as I stated before it lacks the artwork. The good thing is that there is hope, as stated in it’s web site: “It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.”
Open Office Draw 2.4.1 is also suitable for the job. I personally it is a little more limited than Dia for the job, but maybe it’s just my impression. As a drawing tool it is more complex and give you more for your Money effort like object rotation, and other effect.
Kvio 1.6.3 is also a nice tool. I have to say that it works really well. It’s light and has good handling of stencils, they get extra points because it automatically finds and uses the Dia stencils. The only thing I really don’t handle well yet is that all objects when placed on the sheet a TOO BIG.
Is there a chance that someone with good graphic skills opens an Open Source project to make some standard shapes or stencils that can be used by all 3 tools or any other tools that wants to use them. If a momentum is created it is also possible to make the Vendors want to publish their shapes in this standard format.
After a lot of fighting I finally got my UMTS card working with Fedora 9.
I have a T-Mobile Web’n’Walk II card which turns out to be a Option GEO201 by Qualcomm. The main problem with this card is that someone had the wonderful idea of integrating a usb flash drive (so you don’t ever loose the drivers) with a usb gsm modem.
The main trick is to use a small program called usb_modeswitch which disables the flash drive and loads the modem’s driver. So lets cut the chat and get it done:
$ mkdir ~/tmp
$ cd ~/tmp
$ tar jxvf ~/Download/usb_modeswitch-0.9.4.tar.bz2 # or a newer version
$ cd ~/tmp/usb_modeswitch-0.9.4
$ ./compile.sh
$ sudo install -m755 -o root usb_modeswitch /usr/sbin
$ sudo install -m744 -o root usb_modeswitch.conf /etc/
$ /bin/su –
# vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
#### => Insert the following text:#Globetrotter HSDPA Modem T-Mobile Web’n’Walk Express II
#Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0af0:6701 Option
#idVendor=05c6, idProduct=1000 are the infos of the flash drive
#idVendor=0af0, idProduct=6701 are the infos of the HSDPA ModemSUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ATTR{idProduct}==”1000″, ATTR{idVendor}==”05c6″, RUN+=”/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch”
Note: The values I used for the udev script I got from running: # lsusb -v
Well hope that sets you up to go. This should work with other Linux distributions as well
Thanks Per Lasse for the comments and corrections 😀
Updates:
11.12.2007: I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 and it works flawless
Tested it in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 8.10
It’s no secret that I’m a Fedora User and advocate. I’ve been using Red Hat Linux since ’97 and Fedora since the change. So I just found a js with a counter for the release of Fedora 9 and set it up. There have been many changes over time, some versions I really didn’t like: Red Hat 9 or Fedora 4. I’m not sure of the details of why I just remember upgrading and downgrading a week later. I really have my hopes up for Fedora 9, the actual stable release (8) isn’t one of my favorite upgrades: it fixed some things and broke others. We’ll see what Fedora has in store for us. I’ll be posting a small review once I upgrade and the workarounds I use to get my box working just how I like it.
