January 2011 – Gaurav Paliwal

Is your hardware secure #think_twice

Every time we do projects , we do everything to make the IT solution’s secure and try our best shot to make it less vulnerable ( no one can guarantee full security ). But we generally pay 100% attention to the software part but what about hardware ? THINK TWICE.Your views may change immediately after this :

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4997288.stm
2. http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/uncle-sam-fears-chinese-pcs-may-be-bugged/2006/05/20/1147545558131.html
3. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1238255
4. http://it.slashdot.org/story/06/03/30/1344211/Lenovo-Under-US-Probe-for-Spying
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/05/22/0436250/US-Government-Fears-China-Bugs-Lenovo-PCs

Although those are old news , and their is no guarantee that things like those had actually happened in the past. But may be this is the reason that why thing like following happens :

1. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100407/jsp/frontpage/story_12311784.jsp

2. http://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/chinese-hackers-attack-india/

But the big question “Is their any precaution we can take regarding this ?”. I have reported this to few Government Organization’s where we submitted our tender bids during the eWebSolution’s starting days, but outcomes were sometime good and majority of time bad. If you know any solution to problems like this, please comment , on the other hand I would love to see any Indian company coming up with reliable own manufactured Hardware’s

gtk-recordmydesktop problem in Debian #solve

If you are using recordmydesktop and advance tab is not working then this is probably due to this :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk-recordmydesktop/+bug/447011
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589769

su root ;                                                         // login as root
cd /usr/local/bin ;                                         // go to the /usr/local/bin directory
gedit  jack_lsp ;                                                 // created the file jack_lsp 
                                                                   //Write following in the file and save it: 
                                                                   //#!/bin/bash
chmod 755  /usr/local/bin/jack_lsp ;                 // Made it executable ( rwx for owner , rx for group and others )

when internet fly #mistake_of_ISP_setting

Recently , I shifted to the SpectraNet from Sify on the advice of the Sify local CTO 😛 , who himself own the distribution right in our area for spectranet also :P:P.Although Sify offer better technical support then spectraNet , because Sify know how to deal with the GNU/Linux.Though the download speed that I usually get is 50 KBps (392 KBps connection) , in the morning I got 200+ KBps download speed :).Few Screenshots are attached here :

Any takers for this #usit #ggsipu

———– Forwarded message ———-
From: Gaurav Paliwal <Mail Address>
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:34 PM
Subject: Any volunteer for maintaining UIRC Server (GNU/Linux)
To: SAInT USIT

Hi,

A team of the USIT students under the guidance of Rinkaj Sir (Faculty USIT) and A P Singh Sir ( Deputy Librarian ) is responsible for maintaining the some of the IT services of the UIRC .Previously Sahil Dave and Om was the part of this team then me and Deepak pitched in. These services include :

1. DSpace Server
2. Administration and Up-gradation of Debian GNU/Linux server.
3. Off-Campus Resource Sharing Module
4. LDAP Authentication Server
5. An FTP Server.

As me and Deepak will be graduating this year (/*hopefully*/) then UIRC require new person to take care of these services.

At the same future challenges include :

1. Migrating from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze
2. Data Migration to Koha
3. Troubleshooting in case of some issues.
4. Upgradation of DSpace/FTP/Koha/Off-Campus Resource sharing Module

Requirement :

1. Self Motivation , zeal , willingness to work.
2. Internet connectivity at home.
3. Command over GNU/Linux preferred Debian or other Debian derived System.
4. Should be able to actively carry those traditions and should be able to render these responsibility to other team before leaving the college.

Note : No certificate will be Given , this is a volunteering work, but at the same time a great work environment and freedom to work will be given .You will gain a good experience.

If , Interested then drop a mail @ gaurav[dot]paliwal1989 [AT] gmail [dot] com before 6 Jan 2010 with a resume clearly showing experience in GNU/Linux , Java , Bash Shell/Perl/Python .

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With Regards,
Gaurav Paliwal
http://gauravpaliwal.com/blog/