Today I’ve found an interesting application, or better say a Frontend for a known program mencoder. This one allows you to create aDivX Player Compatible AVI video format with the ability to merge subtitles. Its own web site where taking more information is

http://code.google.com/p/foxoman/wiki/DivXConverter

if you click on the label Downloads can have the package for our Distro (http://foxoman.googlecode.com/files/divxconverter_2.0.1-1_all.deb). The last version of the application is 2.0 Final. Unfortunately I have enough time to test it, I’ll leave you the choise.

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the last number of Full Circle is out. The download of the issue 31 is available in the following link

• http://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue32_en.pdf

enjoy your read to everyone

so, if you need read the old numbers of the Magazine you can using this link and making the download of the oldest issues

• http://fullcirclemagazine.org/downloads/

Here it is, my first how-to of the new year. And I couldn’t start not telling of the new project Enna. Enna is an *opensource* mediaplayer application, and for the first stable version has been released the package for Ubuntu 9.10. The project is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) and with the GeeXboX libraries.  You may have more details about Enna viewing its own web site

http://enna.geexbox.org/index.html

I’ve tested it on my Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Editoin and I’ve to say that it’s a fantastic application, easy of configurating and fast to run itself. The procedure for the installation is very easy we just have to add its repository on our Synaptic and install it, thats it. The repository is the following

deb http://packages.geexbox.org/ karmic main

Once done, you may just install Enna through the following command:

$: sudo apt-get update
$: sudo apt-get install enna

or searching it on Synaptic.

You will find the Enna icon launcher in Applications/Audio and video. Of Following others screeshot of my installation.

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Tic Tac, Tic Tac, Tic Tac ……

I want to make you a great Happy New Year, and that 2010 is a big year for all of us.

this last of the year I’ll be alone, doesn’t matter ….will have a big bottle of champagne, just for me.

“..Chears guys and Happy 20:10..”

After have made the upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 on my Laptop I noticed that wasn’t present any application for the VoIP protocol. I don’t know why but Canonical has decided of exclude Ekiga on Ubuntu 9.10. Surfing on repositories of Ubuntu I’ve found a package useful of adding to Empathy and use the IMC like a really VoIP client. Add that package is very easy we need just to use Synaptic search it and install, the application is called telepathy-sofiasip.

$: sudo apt-get install telepathy-sofiasip

and following the screenshots below can set up the VoIP protocol on Empathy.

record a new voice and  select SIP like VoIP service

add your VoIP account

type the telephone number that you want to call

make a conversation with your friend. Will Empathy be the future IMC/VoIP Client for Ubuntu?

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MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS AT ALL

……It’s time to open the gift……

In the Vulnerability Scanner world there are some open source that help you to make become your system more safe. OpenVAS is one of them. Its purpose is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems. For more details can view its own website

http://www.openvas.org/openvas-client.html

OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a network security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. OpenVAS products are Free Software under GNU GPL and a fork of Nessus. This application must be installed using the packages took from its website and some packages installed from repositories on Synaptic, the packages of installing are

$: sudo apt-getinstall build-essential libgnutls-dev libpcap0.8-dev bison libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgpgme11-dev libssl-dev htmldoc

After installing of the packages, we need to take openvas

$: sudo wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/572/openvas-libraries-2.0.2.tar.gz
$: sudo wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/561/openvas-libnasl-2.0.1.tar.gz
$: sudo wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/562/openvas-server-2.0.1.tar.gz
$: sudo wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/576/openvas-plugins-1.0.6.tar.gz
$: sudo wget http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/575/openvas-client-2.0.3.tar.gz

it’s time to install them

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I report the same words used on its own website to describe what it is:

“Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.”

If you want to know more information about that can view its website

http://backintime.le-web.org/

To install it it’s necessary add the following repository to Synaptic

deb http://le-web.org/repository stable main

So, at this point we need add the key of the Back In Time repository to our system, and install Back in Time

$: sudo wget http://le-web.org/repository/le-web.key
$: sudo apt-key add le-web.key
$: sudo apt-ge update
$: sudo apt-get install backintime-common backintime-gnome

Back In Time is now installed and ready to be used.

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SQL injection attackscan allow crackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands on your database through your Web site. To avoid these attacks has been created a program, called GreenSQL, or well called a firewall for the security of SQL. GreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall is designed to be used as a proxy for a MySQL database. The GreenSQL download page includes packages for lot of linux’s distro. That application is installed by a single packet, and can be downloaded directly by its web site.

http://www.greensql.net/download

after that is installated check using this command if the greensql works well with MySQL

$: sudo mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3305 -u root -p

insert your root’s password and if you don’t receive a negative answer means that greenSQL is correctly installed. In case you’re using a CMS like Wordpress or Joomla have to modify the file configuration.php and change the voice

$link = mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘mysql_user’, ‘mysql_password’);

in

$link = mysql_connect(‘localhost:3305′, ‘mysql_user’, ‘mysql_password’);

at this point we can install the greenSQL-console (Management Console) a web interface to manage greenSQL. The program can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=199511&package_id=236915 and follow the following step to install it.

$: sudo cd /var/www/yourwebsite/
$: sudo wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/greensql/greensql-console-0.4.2.tar.gz
$: sudo tar xvfz greensql-console-0.4.2.tar.gz

This creates the subdirectory greensql-console in /var/www/yourwebsite. Next we must adjust the greensql-console configuration:

$: sudo cd greensql-console
$: sudo nano config.php

In config.php, make sure that you fill in the correct password for the green MySQL user. Then make the templates_c/ directory world-writable:

$: sudo chmod 777 templates_c/

Open a browser and go to http://www.yourwebsite.com/greensql-console. Log in with the username admin and the password pwd. You can also find the GreenSQL log in /var/log/greensql.log. To start and stop the service can use these ones

$: sudo /etc/init.d/greensql-fw stop
$: sudo /etc/init.d/greensql-fw start

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Last night I’ve found an incredible minibook dedicated at last release of Ubuntu 9.10. The bible can be downloaded using this link

http://makeuseof.org/ubuntu

The author of this fantastic bible is wrote by MakeUseOf