We're all addicted to Minecraft 1.8.1, and play a ton on s.redcraft.us public servers. Now we're running a 1.9pre5 private server for everyone to try out! I love using the new enchantments on my Weapons, Tools and Armor!

Whats new in Minecraft 1.9?

Strongholds have more Chests


Oh.. and DRAGONS!



In this article, i will show you how to install the latest Minecraft 1.9 Pre-release 5 on both Linux and Windows systems.

What is Plowshare?

Plowshare is a command-line (CLI) download/upload tool for popular file-sharing websites (aka Hosters). With Plowshare, you will be able to download or upload files and manage remote folders and link deletion. It runs on Linux/BSD/Unix operating systems.

In this article, i will show you how to install Plowshare on a Ubuntu Linux Server and download a file from Megaupload or Rapidshare.

Back by popular demand is another "Perfect Desktop" video tutorial. This time around, i walk you through my initial setup of Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop.

* Terminal Customization
* Avant-Window-Navigator (AWN Dock)
* Gnome panel Customization
* Gnome-do
* Google OS Fonts
* Divergence Theme
* Compiz Window Picker
* System Load Indicator
* Gnome Wallpaper Slideshow
* CoverGlooBus
* RhythmArty Plugin for Rhythmbox
* Libre.fm Scrobble Rhythmbox Plugin
* Nautilus-Elementary
* Gloobus Flow
* Unclutter
* XChat
* Skype
* FileZilla
* Thunderbird
* Wine
* VideoLan
* BleachBit
* Wakoopa

Read on for more.

What is AirPWN?

AirPWN? is a tool that first debuted at DefCon 12.

AirPWN? acts as a man in the middle tool for wireless networks. It takes advantage of the time that a website takes to respond to normal page requests. In that lag time, it can inject its own content onto the wireless channel of an access point. For instance, you may request a page from wikipedia.org that takes, round-trip, approximately 125 ms. If someone near you is running the airpwn tool, it will see your request and immediately respond with its own web page and/or content because it is much closer and takes much less time to respond. When your computer receives the data, it will think the original request was answered and display the page. When the real web page is presented, it will either ignore the page, or display some of the content. AirPWN? can be configured to carefully craft responses so that your browser will ignore the real web content as it would with html comments.

In this article i walk you through installing AirPWN on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and 10.10.

Read on for more.

UPDATE:

This article is terribly old, and you should have no issues running minecraft with the files provided by Mojang. I did, however have an issue loading them on 64bit linux. Please see the more recent article about this issue:

http://timashley.me/node/1370

Minecraft

If you haven't heard already, Minecraft is one of the most epic open world, sandbox, survival and crafting game to hit the Internet in ages. Even in it's Alpha stage, it's become so popular in such a short amount of time that the developers website crashes daily.

In this tutorial, i show you how to play Minecraft on any Linux OS (32bit and 64bit)

Synchronet Bulletin Board System Software

... is a free software package that can turn your personal computer into your own custom online service supporting multiple simultaneous users with hierarchical message and file areas, multi-user chat, and the ever-popular BBS door games.

Synchronet development began as a personal hobby in 1990 for single-tasking MS-DOS compatible computers and Hayes compatible modems. The program was sold commercially from 1992-1996 after which time it was released (with source code) for both the 16-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 platforms to the public domain and development by the author was ceased.

In November of 1999, the author found a renewed interest in further developing Synchronet, specifically for the Internet community, embracing and integrating standard Internet protocols such as Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IRC, NNTP, and HTTP. Synchronet has since been substantially redesigned as an Internet-only BBS package for Win32 and Unix-x86 platforms and is an Open Source project under continuous development.

Synchronet Version 3.1x for Win32 and Unix (Intel-x86 architecture) can be previewed on Vertrauen (Home of Synchronet BBS Software).

In this article, i walk you through installing the Synchronet BBS Software on a Ubuntu Server.

Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. These tools can recover 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools.

Last year i walked you through installing the Aircrack-ng suite on Ubuntu Linux.

We will be installing and using just part of the Aircrack-ng suite, airmon-ng. This will allow us to put our wireless card into "Monitor" mode.

Wicrawl

Wicrawl is a simple wi-fi (802.11x) Access Point auditor with a simple and flexible plugin architecture. The plugins allow us to find out useful information about an AP so we don’t have to manually check each access point. Plugins are implemented for existing common tools, and new plugins can be written in any language. Wicrawl is able to use multiple cards, and eventually will be able to use multiple computers.

The goal is to automate the tedious task of scanning wi-fi access points for interesting information. This can be a useful tool for penetration testers looking to “crawl” through massive numbers of APs looking for interesting data. Plugins will be everything from DHCP and nmap to aircrack or hooks to move a motorized directional antenna around.

The guys over at Midnight Research Labs stopped development back in 2007. Being a bit out-dated, it wouldn't compile on the latest Ubuntu without a couple tweeks. I replaced the entire source code in the Aircrack-ng plugin folder with the latest SVN (as of this post). I also had to add a header file to the discovery folder to help it compile.

I went ahead and tared up my folder with all of these edits so you can easily compile it on the latest Ubuntu Linux (9.10 as of this post).

In this video tuorial, i walk you through installing Aircrack-ng as well as Wicrawl.

Video tutorial of my last article on Installing AirPWN.

Read on for the text version.

System notification emails

Continuing in part off of my last Ubuntu Server article, "The Perfect Server", I decided that i wanted the server to send me emails updating its status with me. If the HD space gets low, the RAM is all used up, services go down, or even i lose internet at my house while im out and about, i get a nice email from my server notifying me of the problem (at least when my inet comes back online).

What better way to top this off than with use of a gmail account that i already owned and used?

In this article, i will walk you through installing the following along side your postfix installation:

Self signed SSL certfication (don't want anyone being nosey!)

Apticron - A nice set of scripts that will execute 'apt-get udpate' and email you the results

Webmin - One of the best web based management consoles for head-less servers. Has a great system notification setup, along with many many many other goodies.