Monthly Archives: February 2010
Features of StarOffice
OpenOffice.org inherited many features from the original StarOffice upon which it was based including the OpenOffice.org XML file format which it retained until version 2, when it was replaced by the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF). Sun subsidizes the development … Continue reading
ODF support in OpenOffice
Open Document Format (ODF) standards, as promulgated by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), set international compatibility criteria for the electronic/digital storage of documents. These standards recognize the importance of interoperability and intelligent information exchange and … Continue reading
Gimp – Command-line options (man gimp)
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used to edit and manipulate images. It can load and save a variety of image formats and can be used to convert between formats. Gimp can also be used as … Continue reading
GIMP – Linux Image Editor
GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool. In addition to offering freeform drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image workflow steps such as resizing, … Continue reading
Linux vs Windows
Users who are considering making a change from Windows to Linux or Linux to Windows commonly want to know the advantages and disadvantages of each of the operating systems. Below is a chart to help illustrate the major advantages and … Continue reading
How to setup a TFTP server on DragonFlyBSD server?
1. What is TFTP? TFTP, or Trival File Transfer Protocol (“RFC 1350″), is a simple protocol used for sending and receiving files over a network without requiring an account or password on the remote system. TFTP operates on port 69 … Continue reading
Security COncerns with inetd daemon
While the inetd concept as a service dispatcher is not inherently insecure, the long list of services that inetd traditionally provided gave computer security experts pause. The possibility of a service having an exploitable flaw, or the service just being … Continue reading
What are the functions of inetd daemon?
Often called a super-server, inetd listens on designated ports used by internet services such as FTP, POP3, and telnet. When a TCP packet or UDP packet arrives with a particular destination port number, inetd launches the appropriate server program to … Continue reading
How to setup services in Linux using inetd.conf
The file /etc/services is used to map port numbers and protocols to service names, and the file /etc/inetd.conf is used to map service names to server names. For example, if a TCP request comes in on port 23, /etc/services shows … Continue reading
Features of syslog-ng command
syslog-ng has a much larger scope than merely transporting syslog messages and storing them to plain text log files: * the ability to format log messages using UNIX shell-like variable expansion; * the use of this shell-like variable expansion when … Continue reading
