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Yasmin Ahmad : Press Conference

Plea from Yasmin’s family urging the public to give Yasmin and her family privacy and space through this hard time. Hope everyone will respect this.

Stay up to date on Yasmin’s condition on twiiter.

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How to setup an OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Here’s a simple walkthrough to setup an OpenSSH server on Jaunty together with 2 basic hardening options you should apply.

1. Install the OpenSSH server.

Fire up a console and run the command below. This will install the required binaries and packages for the OpenSSH server.

apt-get install openssh-server

2. Get some basic hardening in by disabling “root” login and restricting access to specific accounts. All changes are to the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” configuration file.

vi the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” file and apply the changes below.

Look for "PermitRootLogin yes"
and change it to
"PermitRootLogin no"

Start a new line and add the line below. “danesh” is my user name, you should replace it with your own user name. You can add multiple user names by seperating each user name with a space.

AllowUsers danesh user1 user2

3. Restart your shiny new OpenSSH server and you are good to go.

Run the command below to restart the OpenSSH server.

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Fastest Firefox, the community shows off

Firefox 3.5 is fast, no doubt there. These guys are too, fast at what they do. So, it’s only fit that Mozilla feature them on it’s  Fastest Firefox campaign site.

The world’s fastest clapper, Kent French. Watch the Video

The world’s fastert sport stacker, Steven Purugganan. Watch the Video

The world’s fastest benjo player, Todd Taylor. Watch the Video

The world’s fastest talking female, FranCapo. She was the lady in main video doing the intro.

candy.com the 3 million dollar domain

Who said common names can’t sell?

Candy.com was bought by G&J Holdings for  a whopping USD 3million from the “Domain King”,  Rick Schwartz. WOW!!

What does G&J Holdings do? Nothing but candies. A massive selection, from old to new and they’re all online. On the downside, they don’t do international orders.

This si something to note. There’s no domain too short, too simple, too plain or  too common. If you wait they will come……..

Launchpad is now open source

This surely comes as good news to all Ubuntu fans out there. Canonical today made Launchpad open source under the GPLv3 license. As promised.

If you didn’t already know, Launchpad is a project hosting and collaboration platform for software which provides access through its web interface or through its APIs.  Users simply need an account to enjoy the suite of services provided by the then close sourced platform. Bug tracking, code hosting, code review, packaging, translation and community support. Everyone has their project space and the ability to easily distribute their packages through PPAs.

Canonical has no plans to package Launchpad as of now for easy deployment. However, you can still download the source and compile it as always. Also, Launchpad will only run on Hardy and Jaunty so getting it to run on other Linux distros will certainly require some extra work.

New versions of Launchpad are released every month, in return users never miss out on new features. With the community being able to contribute now, development’s going to pick up and we can most certainly hope for a flood of new features to come out of Launchpad moving forward.

The Launchpad platform is something most of Canonical’s competitors don’t currently provide to their users. This puts it ahead of the competition. openSUSE is the pretty close  with their excellent build service platform but the general user base is smaller.

Follow the Launchpad community on IRC in channel #launchpad-dev on irc.freenode.net or at dev.launchpad.net.

Source: Canonical | Ubuntu