Thursday, May 26, 2011

Install w3af 1.0 in Fedora - Python-svn Dependancy Solving


Famous web application testing tool kit 'w3af' released a stable version on 25th May 2011. How ever when I run w3af-gui, it tells it needs 'python-svn' and suggest to run apt-get install python-svn.
In a fedora based system 'yum install python svn' will not work since package comes with a different package name. Therefore to install python svn, 'yum install pysvn' should be issued.

Monday, May 16, 2011

How to install Clementine Music Player for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid


Clementine is a multi-platform juke box type music player which is inspired by Amarok 1.4. But to install it to Lucid Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) small procedure has to be follow.

The 'apt-get install clementine' will not work because clementine repository is not default available in Lucid Linux.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Installing Broadcom 43xx Wireless Drivers after Kernel Update in fedora

Broadcom Logo

After a kernel update in Toshiba Satellite laptops which are running on fedora may lose the wireless network capability which is based on Broadcom chips. Even drivers are available from RPMFusion repo, it will take couple of days to update drivers with newly released kernel. Best option is compling the driver as following steps which gives wireless capability instantly.

Step 1:
Run 'lspci | grep -i broadcom' in terminal to make sure wireless hardware is there.
[kasun@katalyst ~]$ lspci | grep -i broadcom
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
[kasun@katalyst ~]$

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Open DNS Phishing Protection

Open DNS Logo

As a Linux user, since there is not reputed Virus Guard (Even troublesome SELinux is there) or URL filtering is not done, there is a more chance you deal with phishing URL. In windows many AVs prevent phishing and scam URL. In this case best option is using a DNS level filtering. In most cases ISP's DNS will not offer this sort of protection. Therefore best option is switch to Open DNS.
Open DNS name servers are
  • 208.67.222.222
  • 208.67.220.220

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

How to fix Oracle VirtualBox Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Hardware Requirement Issue

Oracle VirtualBox VM boot Screen

Unity is the new desktop package which is included in Ubuntu 11.04. How ever this makes small problem to VirtualBox testers for Ubuntu. It gives small error contains hardware is not support and Unity is kept disabled.