New Coffee and a Command Line screencast is released. This episode is “Linux Command Line Basics – combining files using cat and join”. Cat is a well know utility the has many uses, one of those being, combining the content of multiple files.

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Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and [...]

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So. In the last post I covered using IPCop as your router/firewall/IDS and web proxy. This time I’m going to touch on some of the available addons to the IPCop web GUI and also, some of the binary tools for the CLI.
Lets start out with the addons. Addons to IPCop are those which add functionality [...]

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My home network has always been important to me. It serves not only as a major artery of my home business but, also as a ‘lab’ environment for learning and testing purposes. This post was inspired by and is an accompanying post to Mr-Snicks post at isnick.net. My self being a little more geeky than [...]

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So what are you thoughts on Linux being bloated. This really needs to be broken down into two parts. Linux the kernel and Gnu/Linux the OS. The Linux kernel, which is really al that Linux is, had become larger by way of support for advancing technology. This is a good thing. Gnu/Linux has grown due [...]

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