newbie area bt3

Got to laugh a this little exchange -

Forum:  newbie – asks “Hurry Please” -

THE RESPONSE; And dont come here asking people to “hurry please” for you
Now one cares if you are in a hurry because if you are then go read about what you want to do and then do it your self.
Your emergency is not our problem !

Billy Goat Detects Worms and Viruses

Billy Goat is built atop a security-hardened Linux machine that offers no real services beyond very restricted login. It is configured in conjunction with the network on which it runs so that traffic directed toward address subnets that are not used is routed to the Billy Goat.

Carrier Grade 'Five Nines' 99999

Information Awareness Office - As defined on Wikipedia

In telecommunication, a “carrier grade” or “carrier class” refers to a system, or a hardware or software component that is extremely reliable, well tested and proven in its capabilities. Carrier grade systems are tested and engineered to meet or exceed “five nines” high availability standards, and provide very fast fault recovery through redundancy (normally less than 50 milliseconds).

Remote Exploit – Penatration TOOLs

THIS – DESCRIPTION FROM HERE
BackTrack is the most top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.

It’s evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions – Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new-comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.

Download BackTrack from HERE

There is an alternative in the form of a vmware applicance HERE (BT3 658MB dl)

AND; There is a vm BackTrack BETA Ver4 HERE (About 1100 MB dl)

Linux Distro – Linpus

WIKIPEDIA-INFO: >>> Linpus Linux is a Fedora based operating system created by the Taiwanese firm Linpus Technologies Inc.[1] Linpus was designed specifically to fully support the Asian market, with full Unicode support for the Chinese and Japanese languages. A special version, Linpus Lite, was written to run on devices with lower-cost hardware such as netbooks. It has both an icon and tab-based “Simple mode”, designed for new users; and, a conventional style “PC mode” for those wanting a more Microsoft Windows-like interface. It is targeted at handheld devices with smaller screens, and supports resolutions as low as VGA (640×480).[2] <<<

http://www.linpus.com/ | Download – Limpus-Lite = 700 MB

HERE IS WHAT I WANTED: (Linpus QuickOS – sometimes Loaded the S10e, maybe always, I have not bought one yet) The marketing blurb is pasted below – with a link to the download url for this distro.

With Linpus QuickOS you don’t have to wait for Windows to start enjoying your online life. Linpus QuickOS isn’t designed to replace your Windows, but give you more choice to access key applications quickly. It combines breakthrough technology, hardware cooperation, and Linpus’ open source expertise and experience to create the most complete product in this space.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: (Features might be BETTER description for this)

* Linux operating system targeted at low cost computer market;
* Icon interface
* low power hardware requirements

As described on the ‘Linpus QuickOS’ site.

ANOTHER-NOTE; It seems that Linpus Lite, AND Linpux QuickOS, are ‘one-&-the-same’ distro. (The usual marketing spin -  designed to sell stuff, adding to the busy clang of technology hype , .. so much fun)

THE ACTUAL FEATURE LIST IS EXTENSIVE: Here is the url

There are also Desktop and Media Centre versions of this OS;
* LINPUS – Linux Desktop = 3.6 GB Download
* LINPUS – Linux Media Centre = 4.5 GB Download

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Found this URL – By Eric A. Hall – (And just wanted to place a link to his site) Hence I have pasted a small snipet from there as an intro to WMI (Microsoft Windows Management Console)

© 2007-2009 Eric A. Hall

Instead, administrators who have committed themselves to Linux-based management consoles have had to rely on gateway or proxy technologies that query Windows systems for the desired data on behalf of the management station. For Windows-heavy networks, the path of least resistance has simply been to use Windows-based management platforms that can access the data directly,

WordPress Appliance

Turnkey linux – An example of a Software Appliance.

Use this appliance to setup wordpres on a local-machine.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It is one of the worlds most popular blog publishing applications, includes tons of powerful core functionality, extendable via literally hundreds of plugins, and supports full theming.

Download Beta 167MB: turnkey-wordpress-2009.03-hardy-x86.iso (sig) (manifest)

Unix Timeline (40 Year Mile-stone)

Timeline: 40 Years Of Unix
Some milestones of the Unix operating system’s four-decades-long history
By Gary Anthes , Computerworld , 07/27/2009

Just making a note of this for later reference, (Ill read it later, VERY busy today! as usual)