AssaultCube

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, i is a FREE multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that’s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer with fast, arcade gameplay, it’s addictive and fun!

With efficient bandwidth usage, it’s low-latency and can even run over a 56Kbps connection. It’s tiny too, weighing in at a lightweight 40 MB package available for Windows, Mac and Linux. On the correct settings, it can even run on old hardware (Pentium III and above).

website : http://assault.cubers.net

Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a fast-paced 3D deathmatch game with high-end and complex graphics effects. It is intended to be played over the Internet or over a local network. Several different game types, such as classic deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag are available. Though it also supports a single-player mode and playing against the computer. The game brings deathmatch back to the basics, with perfect weapon  balancing and fast paced action, keeping itself away from the current trend of realistic shooters.

Nexuiz is an Arena First Person shooter coming soon to consoles. Nexuiz is fast paced with extremely competitive game play. IllFonic brings Alientrap Software’s Nexuiz to next-gen gaming consoles around the world while staying true to the game play refined over the years through development. IllFonic introduces a new Victorian influenced art style that is simultaneously futuristic and sophisticated. Nexuiz for consoles is powered by CryENGINE 3.

Nexuiz will feature a dynamic mutator system that allows players to change the rules of the match as its being played; as players rank, new mutators become available for them to use. Leader boards are designed for social networking, letting players feel more engaged with the community.

website : http://www.nexuiz.com/

Warsaw

Warsow is a fast paced first person shooter consisting of cel-shaded cartoon-like graphics with dark, flashy and dirty textures. Warsow is based on the E-novel “Chasseur de bots” (“Bots hunter” in English) by Fabrice Demurger. Warsow’s codebase is built upon Qfusion, an advanced modification of the Quake II engine. Set in a futuristic cartoon-like world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets, Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Speed and movement, that’s what Warsow is all about. Like a true cyberathlete you jump, dash, dodge and walljump your way through the game. Grab those power-ups before your enemy does, plant the bomb before anyone sees you, and steal the enemy’s flag before anyone knows what’s going on!

website : http://www.warsow.net/

Sauerbraten

Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

Sauerbraten is a networked fast-paced 3D first-person shooter game. It supports rather modern graphic effects and a some nice graphic details.
The game client also works as the map editor. It is even possible to create and/or edit a map together with other people over a network connection.
Sauerbraten might be considered unsuitable for children.

website : http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net

Tremulous

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based First Person Shooter (FPS) game with elements of a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like a Real Time Strategy game. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more.

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the “Armoury”. The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.
The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

website : http://tremulous.net

proxy server

Install Squid
Install squid and squid-common

sudo aptitude install squid squid-common


Edit the squid config file.

sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf


Set the allowed hosts.

acl internal_network src 192.168.0.0/24 (Where 192.168.0.0/24 is your IP range.)
http_access allow internal_network

Set the correct permissions.

sudo chown -R proxy:proxy /var/log/squid/
sudo chown proxy:proxy /etc/squid/squid.conf


You will need to restart squid for the changes to take affect.

sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart

Now open up your browser and set your proxy to point to your new squid server on port 3128

Authentication
If you wish to use authentication with your proxy you will need to install apache2 utilities

sudo aptitude install squid squid-common apache2-utils

To add your first user you will need to specify -c

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/squid.passwd first_user

Thereafter you add new users with

sudo htpasswd /etc/squid.passwd another_user

Edit the squid config file

sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf


Set the the authentication parameters and the acl

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid.passwd
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm NFYE Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 3 hours
auth_param basic casesensitive off

acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl sectionx proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow users

So this is what your squid.conf should look like.

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0

acl internal_network src 192.168.0.0/24
acl users proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl Safe_ports port 631 # cups
acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync
acl Safe_ports port 901 # SWAT
acl sectionx proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl purge method PURGE
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access allow users
http_access allow internal_network
http_access deny manager
http_access allow purge localhost
http_access deny purge
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all

Redirect the all HTTP traffic.
If you would like to redirect the all HTTP traffic through the proxy without needing to set up a proxy manually in all your applications you will need to add some rules

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1:3128
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128


Where eth1,eth0 are the LAN, WAN devices and 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of your LAN device.
If you wish to monitor the performance of your proxy you can look as some log parser’s (sarg, calamaris, ect.)

After all, probably you feel the need to monitor the performance of your proxy. Unfortunately, most of the squid log parsers in the Ubuntu repository are configured for Squid 2.x. Nevertheless, squid 3 uses the same log format, so you can change the log file path in your parser config file (sarg, calamaris, etd.) or simply link the log directory of squid 3 to the correct path

ln -s /var/log/squid3 /var/log/squid

Source : kuscsik

According to wikipedia the last public version of Yahoo! Messenger for Unix was released in September 2003, while an unofficial beta (v1.0.6) from a Yahoo! employee was released around the same time.

But they keep upgrading the version for Mac? And now it is version 3.0.1 for the current beta released on March 26, 2010.

Yahoo Messenger has some great features that was making it so popular, and most of our customers was familiar with it, although there is an alternative like gyachi, kopete, pidgin, and empathy, our customers prefer to use Yahoo Messenger instead of those alternative instant messengers, and why?

Because Yahoo Messenger is so user friendly and easy to use, and one frequent reason is when using alternative instant messenger such as pidgin, most of our customer being afraid to create their account even without password.

The Linux / Unix version of Yahoo! Messenger is terribly outdated, and probably won’t even connect. The Windows version does not run well, even under Wine. The web version of yahoo messenger quite good but the customers still want the native version of it.

Yahoo Messenger On Mac

Yahoo Messenger On Linux

What we really need?

So do we need another yahoo messenger replacement? I dont think so, what we need now is an enhancement of current open source instant messenger program that could mimic the original Yahoo Messenger, and we are still waiting for it.

Post installation

After a successful installation and boot to the newly installed Ubuntu Lucid with out problem, now it’s time for the post-installation. You might consider to create a user if you want, login as root with your previous password:

Step 1. You will need to edit your hosts file

So I want to install Ubuntu Linux for my other system without using a cdrom, but I dont want to do it on that system, instead of that I want to install it via my current working ubuntu desktop that Im using right now.

Actually I want to build a firewall system complate with hotspot gateway and freeradius. But for now lets start with the basic installation first.

You could follow the instruction from ubuntu help community by Curtis Lee Bolin : Installation From Linux or you can continue to read it from here because I made a little modification for the installation method and I add the instruction for the post-installation and how to setup a firewall base system.

How to install without CD

You can install Ubuntu directly from Ubuntu using debootstrap. Debootstrap installs some essential packages in a directory for use with chroot. Note that the essential packages does not in itself make the system bootable. It just installs what you need to chroot to that directory and use apt-get to install other packages witch makes ubuntu usable.

Step 1. First turn off you computer and plugin your hard drive to it, after turn it on back then check that you have debootstrap installed if not, then you should run the following command below:

# sudo apt-get install debootstrap

(NOTE: if you want to install a newer release than your current system, you normally need to install the backported debootstrap version, see: UbuntuBackports)

Step 2. Partition device and make a file-system, to make it more easy, I use cfdisk to create partition for the other drive.

We will assume /dev/sdb is the storage device for your fresh install. I use my thumbdrive to show you an example how to partition the other drive for another system to setup an installation of ubuntu linux from your current ubuntu desktop.

Remove former partitions and create the new on.

# sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb

cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17.2)

Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
Size: 2056257536 bytes, 2056 MB
Heads: 64   Sectors per Track: 62   Cylinders: 1012

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
sdb1        Boot        Primary   W95 FAT32 (LBA)                   2056.00

[ Bootable ]  [  Delete  ]  [   Help   ]  [ Maximize ]  [  Print   ]
[   Quit   ]  [   Type   ]  [  Units   ]  [  Write   ]

Use your arrow key to the [ Delete ] option to remove your partition on the other drive:

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
Pri/Log   Free Space                        2056.00

[   Help   ]  [   New    ]  [  Print   ]  [   Quit   ]  [  Units   ]
[  Write   ]

Create new partition from free space, then you will see your drive is empty, now select [ New ] to create your new partition and select [ Primary ] :

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
Pri/Log   Free Space                        2056.00

Size (in MB): 1500

You need to enter new size limit for primary partition, press backspace then enter the size yo want, for example I use 1500MB and 500MB++ for the extended and swap partition.

Now create the rest of your free space as an extended and swap, to change type of your newly created partition navigate to [ Type ] press Enter and select 83 for linux and 82 for swap.

Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
——————————————————————————
sdb1        Boot        Primary   Linux                             1499.34
sdb5                    Logical   Linux swap / Solaris               556.67

and select your primary partition as bootable by press the option [ Bootable ]. The write down your partition and quite cfdisk.

Are you sure you want to write the partition table to disk? (yes or no): yes

then [ Quit ] and start to make the file-system

# sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Step 3. Mount that new partition.

# sudo mkdir /mnt
# sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Step 4. Create the new install.

# sudo debootstrap lucid /mnt

Step 5. Copy files to the new install to keep your repositories

# sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /mnt/etc/apt/

Step 6. Chroot to your new install.

# sudo mount –bind /dev /mnt/dev
# sudo mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
# sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Step 7. Upgrade the new install.

# apt-get update
# apt-get install language-pack-en-base

Note: I install the language-pack-en-base before upgrade to avoid perl warnings as shown below.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_US.utf8″
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

then continue with :

# apt-get upgrade

Step 8. Install Grub and Linux Kernel.

# apt-get install grub-pc linux-image

Step 9. set root password.

To set a root password.

(NOTE: You must at least set a root password if you aren’t adding a user)

# passwd

It should now be safe to reboot, you may want the next few things.

Step 10. If you want to access it with ssh after reboot.

Use vi or install nano to edit /etc/hostname.

Remove anytext in this file and add the hostname you would like.

# vi /etc/hostname

yourhostnameyouwant

and then edit /etc/network/interfaces

# vi /etc/network/interfaces

Add this lines to /etc/network/interfaces. This will start eth0 at boot and request an ip with dhclient.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Next you need to install ssh

# apt-get install ssh

Turn off your computer, remove the new installation drive and plugin to the other system, and bootup the system. If you want the Ubuntu Gnome desktop, continue with Step 11, but if you want to setup a firewall base system, so just skip the Step 11 and Step 12, so it safe for you turn off your system and boot the drive from other system.

Step 11. Install ubuntu-desktop.

# apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-standard

Step 12. Reboot and keep those fingers crossed.

# sudo halt or sudo reboot

To be continue on Part 2

If you new to Ubuntu Linux, sometime you might face a problem in configuring display in Ubuntu Linux, it’s might cause of un-supported monitor or lcd on your system.

To solve the problem you could done it by following the instruction below using the xrandr. First open your terminal from your desktop, go to Ubuntu Main Menu button > Accessories > Terminal, and type the following command  to find your default display adapter:

# xrandr

# Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800

default connected 1280×800+0+0 0mm x 0mm (you’ll see the default word that I just bold it, is my default display adapter, but it might different with your’s)

1280×800       50.0*

1024×768       51.0

960×540        52.0

840×525        53.0

800×600        54.0

800×512        55.0

720×450        56.0

680×384        57.0     58.0

640×512        59.0

640×480        60.0     61.0

576×432        62.0

512×384        63.0

400×300        64.0

320×240        65.0

# cvt / gtf 1280 800 60 (note: you can use cvt or gtf, but dont type both just one) i.e # cvt 1280 800 60

then you will get the following messages

# 1280×800 59.81 Hz (CVT 1.02MA) hsync: 49.70 kHz; pclk: 83.50 MHz

Modeline “1280x800_60.00″   83.50  1280 1352 1480 1680  800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync

Then to add new mode run the following command :

# xrandr –newmode  ”1280x800_60.00″   83.50  1280 1352 1480 1680  800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync

after that add your desire mode to the default display adapter of yours by using the command line option below:

#xrandr –addmode default “1280x800_60.00″

And to set up your screen display with new resolution, run the command below:

# xrandr –output default –mode 1280×80

Before and after screenshot:

800×600

1240×800

According to Linux Journal, one of the widest uses digital distribution management software called Steam a multiplayer and communication platform developed by Valve Corporation, is Officially comes to Linux.

This is because I was so eager and can wait to buy Ironman 2 and Clash Of The Titan DVD.

After searching and googleling for solution then I’ve find out how to upgrade to Limewire 5.5.8.

Just follow these simple instruction here :

1. sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”
2. sudo apt-get update
3. download Limewire Basic 5.5.8 for Ubuntu Linux from here http://www.limewire.com/LimeWireSoftLinuxDeb
4. search for the downloaded file, double click and follow the installation prosess

If you prompted with authentication key for Limewire Pro, just ignore it, click cancel and proceed to use it as usual.

There is another software you might consider to try, I just installed it but dont have any intentions to explorer gtk-gnutella, but you can give a try.

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Before I go on, a bit of a disclaimer: Following the instructions below may not provide you with results that fit your particular needs. If you have specific and detailed requirements, see the DRBL documentation. If you would like to hire LightCube Solutions to provide assistance in setting up a Clonezilla solution for your organization, send an email to info@lightcubesolutions.com.

The Steps

1. Install Linux

You’ll need a Linux machine to run your Clonezilla services. These instructions were successfully tested on Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 and Debian 5. DRBL will also run on Fedora.

2. Install DRBL

First off, open up a Terminal. In Ubuntu and Debian, this is located in ‘Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal’. If you have sudo configured, you can change to super-user access by typing:

sudo -i

Otherwise, use the root password with the following:

su -

Next, add DRBL’s GPG key to your system:

wget http://drbl.sourceforge.net/GPG-KEY-DRBL 

apt-key add GPG-KEY-DRBL

Update your apt configuration so that you can install software from the DRBL guys:

cp /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak}echo "deb http://drbl.sourceforge.net/drbl-core drbl stable" \  >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Finally, install DRBL:

apt-get update 

apt-get install drbl

3. Configure a Network Alias

DRBL requires that you have two network interfaces. We can get around this by adding a virtual interface:

cat >> /etc/network/interfaces << "EOF"auto eth0:1iface eth0:1 inet static   address 192.168.222.1   netmask 255.255.255.0EOFifup eth0:1

To verify that you have set up the alias properly, type:

ip addr show eth0 | grep eth0:1

You should see something like this:

inet 192.168.222.1/24 brd 192.168.222.255 scope global eth0:1

4. Configure Your New DRBL Server

Run the following two interactive commands (note that this will require an internet connection and may take some time):

/opt/drbl/sbin/drblsrv -i/opt/drbl/sbin/drblpush -i

Congratulations! That’s it, you have a DRBL/Clonezilla server ready to create and deploy custom images. All you need to do to start cloning is run:

/opt/drbl/sbin/dcs

Then, boot up your client machines using PXE. See, that wasn’t too painful…