Playing mp4 files over the internet on windows OS is easy since quicktime plugin is supported and easily accessible.  To play mp4 files in linux you can use VLC which commonly installed by default on new versions of Linux OS such as ubuntu and linux mint.  Below is an illustration on how to play/open mp4 files over the internet. 1. Go to Media Menu > Open Network Stream 2.  Enter the url you want to open and click play to start

 image from www.liberiangeek.net To disable GDM on ubuntu and use only the text based login, follow the steps below: Edit /etc/default/grub Comment out GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” Add the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”text” Save Grub and update grub using sudo update-grub2 Below is a snapshot of grub conf with GDM disabled on start-up Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/76543/how-do-i-disable-gdm-and-graphical-user-selection Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

image from http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/ To instantly change your Network interface card’s (NIC) MAC Address or Physical Address on a freeBSD system the command to use is: where rl0 is the NIC whose Physical address will be changed.  This will change back to its original Physical Address when the system reboots. To change the Physical Address of rl0 every time the system boots you need to open rc.conf (/etc/rc.conf) and add the following lines: Good luck! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend

Joomla is one of the CMS that I like and testing it for vulnerability would be fun using OWAP’s joomscan. Just in case you wanted it on your system you can download it at sourceforge Joomscan is a vulnerability scanner for websites using joomla CMS. To install it on ubuntu you can extract it on a directory that you like like the /opt directory. After extracting make it executable and the db text file which is needed for the update:

  Skip the sad story I am a great fan of ubuntu and I have been installing and uninstalling 10.04 LTS to 10.10 to 11.04 to 11.10 and go back again to 10.04 LTS or shift to Linux Mint and caused me a lot of time and a lot of data loss.  One of the biggest problem that I had since upgrading to higher versions of ubuntu or Mint was the display.  After the upgrade I needed to add i915.nomodeset=0

  Days after the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,  I had no plans to upgrade my ubuntu 10.04 LTS but after doing some experiments I ended up upgrading to 12.04 and glad that I had a backup of my projects and database.  I made a fresh install of precise pangolin yesterday and so far the things I say are: BTW: I am using acer aspire 4736 running 4GB of memory, 320GB HDD & Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics

I was able to successfully install Gnokii and used Nokia 5000d-2 connected through the bluetooth media.  Here is the identity of the phone that I am using. The details of the Phone using one of nokia’s hidden code: *#06#. Result: Nokia 5000d-2 V 06.31 24-03-09 RM-362 (c) Nokia Variant: 167.01 Virtual Variant: No Virtual Variant Language: V 06.31 24-03-09 RM-362 (c)Nokia T Using Gnokii’s commands to identify the mobile I used. gnokii ‐‐identify The output was, GNOKII Version 0.6.28 Assuming: