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How to install the web cam creative live on ubuntu linux

Labels: Linux Operating System en — Tonylog 18 October 2007 @ 20:00

The web cam creative live proThe Creative web cams have always been known to be very easy to install and configure on Microsoft windows Systems, trying to keep this quality with the up-coming ubuntu linux world the Creative developers are making this web cam easy to use on Unix Systems too. With Linux Ubuntu Feisty Fawn the installation is not needed, as far as we have the kernel headers installed the web cam Creative live will just run by itself. To verify if the cam is actually working I used camorama (sudo apt-get install camorama, to call the program sudo camorama), after restarting my system with my creative live webcam plugged-in and running camorama I was able to use aMSN and Skype for all my internet video calls with my ubuntu linux friends.

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How to install the java sdk platform NetBeans on ubuntu linux

Labels: Linux Operating System en, Microsoft — Tonylog 16 October 2007 @ 22:27

Logo Net beansWhile researching for the best IDE software for the development of java applications is inevitable to meet the new Java JDK NetBeans, on Microsoft Windows machines the installation of this Software is Just a couple of clicks, however not in our Linux box, especially on ubuntu where I had several problems with the Synaptic Package Manager and either with the terminal installer apt-get. The only way to install the NetBeans IDE is through the Sun Microsystems website, personally I used this link … Java JDK NetBeans … that took me straight to the download page. What to do after that is very simple, Step 1 we need to make the Java netbeans installer executable, step 2 we need to run it. To make it executable we need to use the command chmod as root, so:

sudo chmod +x <path to the file>/netbeans

to run it simply:

sudo ./netbeans

N.B. Remember to change your terminal location to the java netbeans location before trying to chmod it (otherwise it just won’t work) and don’t forget the file extension (in this case .bin). Enjoy!

Ah! By the way: for all the “take it easy” linux users there is a package that doesn’t need any installation, you can find it at this link … JDK NetBeans IDE package … to run the NetBeans executable double click on the file /bin/netbeans and run (tip: put this folder in the /opt or /etc directory and create a luncher on your desktop to run it so you won’t need any fight with the java netbeans installer to have the IDE no your Linux Box).

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How to install and configure kismet on ubuntu feisty fawn

Labels: Linux Operating System en — Tonylog 4 October 2007 @ 08:00

The sniffer Kismet, anti-intrusion software In this little how-to I am going to see hot to install and configure one of the most famous detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system for wireless networks, Kismet. Kismet recently has been downloaded thousands of times from its website , because of that ubuntu developers decided to make it available for download from the universe repository, this assures the fact that they will keep the packet up to date and that the ubuntu team, is actually looking after and solving dependencies. Before proceeding to install kismet we need to check 2 things: is the wireless card recognised by the system ? does our wireless card support the method monitor ? If you can not answer to any of this question please send a message.Start the installation from a terminal:

sudo apt-get install kismet

Obviously you need to be connected to the internet. After installation we need to configure the kismet server, to do that we need to:

sudo gedit /etc/kismet/kismet.conf

The voice that will make your kismet server run correctly is:

source=type,interface,name[,channel]

It needs to be changed into:

source=ipw3945,eth0,Wireless Card

DONE! Now to run your kismet you need to turn on your wireless card in monitor mode with the command:

sudo iwconfig eth0 mode monitor

After that to run the kismet application:

sudo kismet

To turn off the kismet server you need to write a capital Q and to turn off the mode monitor of your wireless card:

sudo iwconfig eth0 mode managed

MIND: Not all wireless cards come out clean from the monitor mode, in case your wireless does not work properly after switching back to managed mode a restart of your ubuntu linux machine will fix everything.

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