Linus Torvalds Ted Talk Feb 2016

Linus Torvalds is the person behind Linux.

I will spare you the long bio details, if you are looking for that I suggest you to read his Wikipedia page Here



 

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk review and opinion

In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," proclaims Torvalds. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

This are two quotes from this great Ted talk. The video as 21.30 minutes so it is not a boring long interview at all. Everyone can and should take a look at it.

Linus Torvalds is no entertainer, he his a programmer. But the interview gives us access to the "Human" side of Torvalds and as great entertainment value, even if you are not into technology and Linux.

The interview takes us behind the story of how linux was created, and explain how and why Linus Torvalds as chosen to make Linux open source, instead of going the easier commercial route.

The big controversy point on the interview is when Linus Torvalds chooses Edison over Tesla

Personally I would take Tesla over Edison any day :) But Torvalds point was that Edison actually got the job done, while Tesla would have great ideas but no final product.

You can watch the video below, or just see it on the official TED webpage LINK

 

 

Chess for linux – Jin review and Download

When you switch from Windows to Linux, you will miss some “commercial” software. To be completely honest most of them does not have a Linux version, but do not despair!

All software you run on Windows can eventually be run under Linux.

Unfortunately most of it as a big learning curve to be able to run correctly, and Chess for linux is no exception.
But despite that you can find good and free alternatives to get Chess for linux.



Today Iam going to guide you on how to obtain a chess client to play online on the FICS (Free Internet Chess Server)
There are a lot of different “clients” to play on FICS as you can see on their webpage LINK.



I choose Jin because it is really easy to set up, as a small learning curve, you just need to configure it once, create a link and that's it you can forget it is even there. This will be the easiest solution to get Chess for linux.

So lets start the tutorial to get Jin working with FICS

Jin Download and set-up tutorial

The first step is for you to create a FICS account.

You can do that by browsing to FICS webpage here LINK

Fill the form with First name, user name, email, etc (Be sure to use a real email because you need to click the activation link they are going to send)

Check your email, click the activation link.

Now you have a FICS account, but you still need the software to play chess online on your Linux distro.



 

Second step Download Jin.

To always get the latest version, you should proceed to the download through the official Jin website on this LINK

Click on Download Jin, it will start the download of a tar.gz file which works exactly as a ZIP file on Windows.

- After you download the file, open the folder that contains it. Right click and choose “extract here”

- Open the folder just created jin-2.14.1 or the version you got.

Double-click jin

Select the first option “Run in Terminal”

Choose the server (In this case the second one Free Internet Chess Server)

Login with your username and password.



 

And thats it Welcome to Jin and FICS :)

 

This are the most basic steps to get Jin up and running on your linux OS.

But there are some other important tweaks you should do to personalize your experience and make it easier to use:

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Create a Link to Jin on your Desktop

First of all, you do not want to navigate to Jin folder every-time you want to play it right?

Just like in other OS whe need to create a link to Jin application and drag it to your desktop.

To create a link using Linux the easiest way is just to grab the program with your mouse, drag it to where you wish while pressing Ctrl+Shift on your keyboard this will create a link to the file instead of creating a copy of the file.

 

Change the link Icon

When you create the link, the Icon it will show, will be the regular Shell command Icon. To change it to “Jin” Icon:

Right click the link on your desktop > select properties > click the icon on the properties page > browse to your Jin folder and click the Icon.

 

Personalize Jin behavior and feel

To change options like pre move and automatic promotion you need to open Jin.

Log in. Click on Preferences > Chess board… > Moves – And here you can select the Auto promotion option and the Moving in Advance select the (premove)

Feel free to mess around with the remaining menus and set everything to your own taste.



 

This is all there is to know to get Jin up and running on your Linux system

* When I first installed Jin I had a problem with sound delay. I would only listen to the piece move, a few seconds after it did. If this is happening to you. The probable cause is your JAVA version. The fix is simply to download Oracle Java, from your Linux Distro Repository, or from Oracle official Webpage Here: LINK



 

 

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Tails - Get your privacy back

Tails, because there is never too much security!

Almost all O.S. (Operating systems) like Windows, Mac, Ios, Ubuntu, Android, etc will track you and send your details to other persons.

This means that for you to become secure, first and foremost you will need to increase your privacy.

On this post I will guide you step by step on how to achieve this.
Following this steps, In the end you will get a fully working O.S. running on your computer from a pen drive!

The system that I will recommend you to use is named Tails, it is a Unix based system, specially design to keep your online activity anonymous.

You are going to need a Internet connection to download the ISO and a Pen drive (4gb is enough for what you will need)

Lets start with the instructions

Step by step guide to create a bootable Pen disk with Tails the anonymous system

Transparent Proxies in Squid

With, the extremely uncontrollable growth in the number of Hackers, not only system administrators of servers have to worry about the security of their system, but even if you are running a  standalone PPP Linux box, you simply cannot afford to ignore your system's security, to prevent that you need to configure a transparent proxie.
If your system is the main server which communicates with the external untrusted network called the Internet, or even if you simply use your linux box to connect to your ISP and surf the net through PPP, then you should definitely think about installing a firewall on your system.
The preferable and the best option in this case is to install a commercial firewall. However, this option is not always possible and is more often than not unnecesarry. Buying, installing and configuring a good commercial firewall is not only expensive but most beginners find it pretty formidable.

OK, I do not want to go through the hassle of a commercial firewall, what do I do?

Well, 'ipchains' hold the key for you.
The Firewalling code in the Linux Kernel changed considerably after the release of Kernel 2.2. Since then, a lot of new utilites and features have been added. Amongst these improvements, is a kewl feature called 'ipchains', which is primariarly used for configuring the firewalling rules and other such related details.

In this manual, we will learn about how to use ipchains to configure a transparent proxy on your linux box.
So what exactly is a transparent proxy?
Well, a transparent proxy is basically something which fools the client (who connect to the server running the transparent proxy) into believing that they are directly connected to the web server (and not through a proxy.). OK, I am sorry, that is not exactly the correct way to describe it. ;-) Read on for a better description.

Well, a transparent proxy works in the following manner: It listens to a specific port (like the HTTP port i.e. 80) for any connections. As soon as it gets a request for a connection (in this case a HTTP request for a file.) then it redirects the user i.e. connection to another port on the same machine. Now this new port to which the connection is transferred is actually running a Proxy.
So, in affect what happens is, the client i.e. the user who connects to the server where the transparent proxy installed,
assumes that it is directly connected and is communicating with the HTTP daemon. However, the truth of the matter is that all communication is being carried out via the proxy running on the server. All this would be clearer when you see the below picture of what happens:
Client --------> Server(Port 80 or HTTP)

 
The rules of the ipchains transfers client to the port where the proxy is running. So, now the communication takes place in the following manner:

 

Client --------> Server(Port of Proxy) --------> Server (Port 80 or HTTP)
So, the connection to Port 80 is indirect, however the client has little idea about it.
Now, that you know the working of transparent proxies, let us get down to configuring them on your machine.
However, before we get down to the actual process, you need to check whether this is possible on you system or not. Simply look for the file:
/proct/net/ip_fwchains
If you have this file, then well and good, else you will have to recompile your Kernel. However, I am sure almost 98% of you would definitely have this file.
NOTE: In this case, we will be transferring all connections from Port 80 to Port 8080 where Squid runs by default.
You could always transfer connections to any proxy port of your choice, by changing the revelant parts. I have taken up Squid, as it is the most common one.

Firstly, in order to transfer all connections from Port 80 to Port 8080, add the following lines to your startup script, so that they are executed each time you boot up.

Note: The server IP is xxx.xx.xx.xx
ipchains -A input -p TCP -d 127.0.0.1/32 www-j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -p TCP -d xxx.xx.xx.xx/32 www-j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -p TCP -d 0/0 www-j REDIRECT 8080
NOTE: If you are using ipfwadm, then add the following lines to the startup script:
ipfwadm -I -a-a -P tcp-s any/0 -D 127.0.0.1
ipfwadm -I -a-a -P tcp-s any/0 -D xxx.xx.xx.xx
ipfwadm -I -a-a -P tcp-s any/0 -D any/0 80 -r 8080
Once this is done, then configure Squid by following the below process. Please note that you need atleast Squid 2.x
to be able to make use of Transparent Proxies. Anyway, to configure Squid, edit the, /etc/squid/squid.conf file and make the following changes:
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
Then,restart Squid by typing:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid.init restart

Voila, your transparent proxy is configured and running!!! Anyway, have fun and watch out for updated versions of
this manual.

Be 100% anonymous

Staying anonymous and safe online is crucial wither or not your into fraud, hacking, or otherwise. I
did not write this guide, however ill add some amendments that I feel are important and missed.

1.) Where ever any guide ( like this) tells one to use Ubuntu Linux.... do not and use Ubuntu. The
reasoning is that with the newest additions of Ubuntu, they index and record your filesystem and
searching habits for juicy data they sell a dime a dozen to the man.
Some nice alternatives are:
-Debian
-Linux Mint
-Arch Linux
-BSD

2.) Encryption. Its not hard. You have Truecrypt and your silly HTTPS but thats not enough.
When ever I contact my Darknet buddies I always use GPG encryption 4096 bit RSA to ensure my
messages, even if my connection got sniffed, never get read by the LE.
Some nice practices are:
-Truecrypt your partitions, VHD's, and other important files you need safe, always use a
hidden partition with false files and such ... idk go to hackfourms or torrent books about
backtrack to make it look juciy yet dry.
- Use GPG for contacts
here's a nice link www.madboa.com/geek/gpg-quickstart/
-Encrypt your homefolder when you install the OS of your choice

3.) Believe it or not, all the encrpytion,tor,vpn, vps's, and proxies will not save you if you don't do
one simple step... change your fucking mac address everytime.
In linux:
-install macchanger
Code: Select all
ifconfig interface down
macchanger -r interface
ifconfig interface up

4.) Do not upload pictures online taken by your phone, there have been a few Anonymous hackers
caught and are rotting in jail atm. Whenever one takes a pic with said phone, it embeds it with a
GPS cord of where you took that pic. Plus there could be features within the picture itself that can
give away who you are.
Nesquik7

5.) Leave your ego for Call of Duty and your buddies. The more you talk about yourself, the
more the other guy or LE can build a profile on you. If your talking about how hitler did nothing
wrong on /pol/ all day while hacking Israel with #OPIsrael ... your gunna get caught real fast.
Topiary got nailed for bragging on Xbox Live.
6.) A word about DNS.... never use your ISP's even with daily activities.
-Torango
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That pretty much cover's it, when I get more time and resources i'll post more. Im gunna take
initative and try rebuilding the content of this website to the best of my ability. Luck for you guys I
copy pasted a lot of the good tidbits and from other places. Don't expect fraud copy pastes from me
though, the Wiki is alive and well.