Installing VMware Server is pretty straight-forward on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Make sure you have the build-essential package and the correct linux-headers for your kernel.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Download VMware and extract the contents to vmware-server-distrib. Run the installation script and read through it all. I ended up just saying ‘yes’ throughout the […]

To get Kismet to run under the ipw2200 driver, simply edit /etc/kismet/kismet.conf. Here is the diff -u output:
— kismet.conf.orig 2007-04-03 13:51:29.000000000 -0700
+++ kismet.conf 2007-04-03 13:53:55.000000000 -0700
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
version=2005.06.R1
# Name of server (Purely for organizational purposes)
-servername=Kismet
+servername=thinker
# User to setid to (should be your normal user)
-#suiduser=your_user_here
+suiduser=marcin
# Sources are defined as:
# source=sourcetype,interface,name[,initialchannel]
@@ -19,7 +19,7 […]

While at ShmooCon, I saw a fair share of rogue ap’s pretending to be shmoocon ap’s. We worked to pull down these access points, but you can never be sure. To help keep yourself from getting pwned, disable wireless upon startup by commenting out your wireless interface. This will prevent anybody from hacking your laptop […]

Thanks to the amount of feedback on Ideastorm, Dell is seriously considering pre-installing Linux on desktop systems. Having had the chance to play with the Core 2 Duo systems Dell puts out, I can definitely say they are pimpin’. I want one, but my main concern is Linux hardware compatibility. I would like a stable […]

I’ve been reading Richard Bejtlich’s Tao of Network Security Monitoring for one of my classes at school. I came across the date -r command Richard was using to translate UNIX epoch times to a readable time format. The date command that shipped with my distribution of Linux does not support the -r flag, so I […]