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I switched my ubuntu Oneiric to bactrack 5 Gnome and try out the new tools I wanted to use. Lately I thought everything will be fine out of the box but noticed that some of the tools I use and explored are not working well. I am using Aspire 4736 and installed backtrack 5 Gnome 64bit. After the installation I had a lot of things to fix and would want to fix them one by one. The first thing I [...]

One of the things I find hard in developing a web application is using a library for sending email such as PHPMailer. I find it hard when used to send emails. Another thing I find hard is when sending emails in a localhost webserver. It would also cost me more and would take much time in setting up my own mail server. PHP’s mail function is also very useless in such testing ground. If you are using a gmail account [...]

Gpick is an advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. This application is an alternative for window’s colorpic. One feature I like about this application is the same feature I found on window’s colorpic which shows a magnifier of the area where you want to capture the color. 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 www.qortuba.org These are some of the tools and commands I use to clean up my ubuntu powered laptop. Cleaning Downloaded and Uninstalled Packages and Dependencies As what I have observed in using ubuntu, most packages are not ready after installation though most of the applications can be downloaded freely from the internet. Just like windows os we need to download packages from trusted sources, and for ubuntu we have the synaptic package manager which helps us which applications [...]

One of the tools I like to use to test servers is bruteforceSSH.  Though most systems today can already detect bruteforce attacks some lazy system administrators and outdated networks can be penetrated. If you have no password list you can use the darcode password list that goes with backtrack 5.  This is no longer used in the latest version of backtrack because there is already a much powerful tool that supports different protocol password attacks which is xHydra.  This tool [...]

I dual booted both Windows 7 and Backtrack 5 on my Laptop and a problem starts when I used thunderbird on Backtrack Linux because all my mails are on my windows OS. Based on what I know, Thunderbird creates a profile during my first run of thunderbird on windows. Everything is stored in that folder (accounts, mails, extensions, etc.). In linux, I know that thunderbird does the same thing. What I wanted to do was to use only one profile [...]

I am running backtrack 5 on my machine and just found out that it doesn’t automatically mount my USB flash drive. The steps below solves the problem and will automatically mount USB flash drives on login. The first step would be to open your modules file which needs a root access found at /etc/modules and add at the bottom the following lines: after adding the the two lines restart you system. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]