http://internetmadness.blogspot.com/2007/06/getty-images-are-trying-to-getty-me.html

http://www.zyra.info/getstu.htm

Whether Getty is a scam or not remains a question to all. Their claims don't have legal basis and I don't think they have ever successfully sued anyone.

A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine

was found after searching the following locations:

/usr/lib/eclipse-3.4.1/jre/bin/java

java in your current PATH

A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machinewas found after searching the following locations:/usr/lib/eclipse-3.4.1/jre/bin/javajava in your current PATH

Of course, you will have to install JRE (or JDE) first. For this purpose simply use netpkg to install 'jre'. However, this will not help and you will have to add the following symlink:

# ln -s /usr/lib/java/ /usr/lib/eclipse-3.4.1/jre

After that Eclipse will be working perfectly fine on your Zenwalk

$ convert
convert: error while loading shared libraries: libfftw3.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

In order to fix this error simply install fftw (with netpkg presumably):

Successfully installed:
fftw-3.2.2-i686-62.1.txz

After that convert (one of Imagemagick binaries) will work perfectly fine:

$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.5.4-9 2009-08-09 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC

So after spending a few hours my Zenwalk rocks and everything works perfectly fine. I have had to install manually only the kernel module for the wireless (Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g). I've got the proprietary driver which gives me no problems. Wpa2, openvpn and everything else works perfect.

Even though the browser says Iceweasel 3.5.2, it is the new Firefox 3.5. Audacious also works quite smooth with just a few crashes. Right now Helloween plays Secret alibi I've even installed Chromium, thinking it is Google Chrome... It turned out to be a pretty cool game so I can't say I am disappointed

Chromium, Audacious, Iceweasel and stuff

The load keeps pretty low and everything is very fast:

root[terry]# uptime
21:04:25 up 35 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.30, 0.29, 0.25

So if you have problems with the latest Ubuntu 9.10, just switch to Zenwalk. It is Slackware based with all the commercial software support and really lightweight.

Followup: The next day I installed Google Chrome for just a few minutes following these instructions on Installing Google Chrome on Slackware.

Gadgets are available not only for graphical desktop environments. There are gadgets for web applications such as WordPress for example.

Still in this article I'll make a review of Google gadgets running on Linux. I have bought a new Lenovo last month and since then I have left my old LXDE in favour of the good old Gnome. Of course, this change has had to come with lots more graphical extras

So my next move was to install some gadgets and I can't even remember how I stumbled upon Google gadgets. The very first thing I liked is the big analogue clock. The most useful gadget is the one for checking Gmail. Here is how my Desktop looks like now:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom count=128 bs=1 2>&1 | md5sum | cut -b-10

This will generate a random string of 10 symbols. In order to change its length just change the last number from 10.

There are also some ready to use utilities such as makepasswd which are available on Ubuntu and other distributions. You can generate 10 characters with makepasswd as follows:

$ makepasswd --char=10

Under Linux (Ubuntu and its derivatives for sure) there is only one way to amend this. Go to .mozilla-thunderbird, find the directory for your profile (something like rv7dwavi.default) and open the file prefs.js.

Then search for the strings  network.protocol-handler.app.http and network.protocol-handler.app.https.

Usually these directives are missing so you can safely add them anew as follows:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "google-chrome");

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "google-chrome");

That's all and from now on Thunderbird will open all links in Google Chrome.

So if you think it is time to get rid of the old Firefox, the first thing to do is to make sure that it is set as your default browser. Of course, we assume you have installed it already

So, in terminal just type:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

(I have found an alternative spelling for config with a single slash '-' which does not work for me )

Then just choose the number for /usr/bin/google-chrome, in my case it is 4.

The good part is that this default setting works not only with Gnome but also LXDE as in my case.

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Script PASS: ";

chomp(my $salt = <STDIN>);

{

print "Enter keyword: ";

chomp(my $string = <STDIN>); #Take the input from the user and remove the n

last if $string eq 'q';

my $encrypted_string = crypt($string,$salt); #take the string and the salt and put through crypt()

print $encrypted_string.'Z'."\n\n"; #Change Z to something else for additional security.

redo;

}

How does it work. First, we have assumed you are on Linux, of course If not, you will probably require ActivePerl.

First, the script asks you for the script password. This password will be the Salt for the hash generation.  This means that without the main password the generated hashes will be incorrect. However, if someone knows your main password, it is not enough. He will also need the script.

Once your enter the main password, you will be asked for a keyword to generate the hash for. For example, if you have an account in example.org you can generate its password with the keyword 'example.org'.

Needless to say, you will be generating / using different passwords for the different accounts / sites. This is a good practice but can be quite confusing if your don't automate it

In the hash generation, there is a Z added. This is like a personal token which must be customized for better protection.

This script will ensure your passwords (generated hashes) are very strong, still easily retrievable Even if someone finds a password for your account, it will be absolutely impossible to find another one. An attacker will need to gain at least a few passwords and chances are not big to reproduce a password for a different account.

Also the script will leave no traces / history about the job. So you will not expose your hyper-turbo-ultra secure password to someone who can just read your bash history for example.

Last but not least, you don't have to run the script anew each time you need a password for something. It is stuck in a loop until you press 'q' of course

The only drawback is that it shows the main password and someone could peek over your shoulders This could be resolved but will require additional perl modules and makes it hard to port the script to a new system...

Here is how the error looks like when you run 'yum install subversion':

--> Missing Dependency: libpq.so.4

First what is libpq.so.4? Generally it is part of Postgre (and its related packages) which is of no further interest in our case

Second, if you don't use Postgre you can simply remove it with yum to save additional complications:

#yum remove postgresql

Now comes the most important part - remove the extra centos repositories. For this purpose make sure that there is only one depository file left in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and there leave only the main repository:

name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Then run again yum install subversion and you are in the business

A word from me: the biggest problem to CentOS is its unresolved dependencies from different repositories. That's probably the only difference with RedHat.