Good afternoon. Welcome to the Linux newsletter, your guide to fresh and detailed content on ONLamp.com. Here's what's new in the world of open source and open source development:
The premier open source firewalling and filtering tool may just be
OpenBSD's pf. "Securing Small Networks" columnist Jacek Artymiak
continues his four-article exploration of pf in OpenBSD 3.3 in Changes in
pf: Packet Filtering. This week, he describes how to filter and shape
packets after NAT and redirection has taken place.
Dru Nelson recently had the unpleasant experience of cleaning up after a spam attack. Rather than curse the darkness, he took the opportunity to protect his network. How? In Defending Your Site Against Spam, Dru describes various techniques to combat spam at the network level. See what he chose and why. (Next time, he'll discuss how he implemented it.)
This week sees new author Joe Stump's first article, MySQL
FULLTEXT Searching. The recent release of MySQL 4.0 brought several
impressive improvements to searching long text fields. Sick of crafting
regexes to fit into a LIKE clause? Joe'll tell you how to make
your life a little easier.
This week's book excerpt comes again from the Linux Security Cookbook. Secure
Cooking with Linux, Part 2 explains making network services available
only during certain times of day, and using sudo to fine-tune file
access permissions.
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This week's featured OSCON speaker is ONJava author Satya Komatineni, speaking on Looking Beyond JDBC.
Satya's a firm believer in hierarchical data sets. Instead of working around the relational-database atom of a row, a hierarchical data set (or infoset) uses a hierarchical atom composed of transformed rows. The idea's a little subtle, but the results are compelling. It's amazingly easy to convert from one output format to another.
Weblog-wise, it's wiki week. Your editor dropped the news of Ingy's (Semi-)Official OSCON Wiki, which is seeing great uptake. Tim caught wind of it elsewhere and tips his hat to Ingy in Unofficial OSCon Wiki. Steve Mallett got in on the idea and launched OSPedia: The Open Source Wiki to complement his efforts on OSDir.com.
Other interesting news involves a potential RSS successor, open source Java, the new library of Alexandria, and XBox Linux without a mod chip. Read more in our Weblogs.
Since OSCON is next week, there's no telling what we'll discuss in the next couple of weeks. Surprise is good for the soul, right?
See you in Portland,
chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network
Video Playback and Encoding with MPlayer and MEncode
No consumer Linux box is complete without the ability to play
digital video files. Until recently, this was difficult -- the
codecs weren't freely available or distributable. MPlayer seeks
to change this. KIVILCIM Hindistan introduces MPlayer and
demonstrates some of its features.
Proxy Terminology 101
You're probably reading this page through a proxy right now. You
might be saving bandwidth, sharing an external IP address, or
being protected from work-unsafe material, but could you tell a
reverse proxy from an arp proxy? Dru Lavigne explains what these
and other terms mean in preparation for installing and running
proxies.
MySQL FULLTEXT Searching
Storing text in your database is handy, but searching can be a
pain. MySQL's FULLTEXT search can save your sanity. Joe Stump
demonstrates how it works and gives several ideas on how to use
it in your own applications.
Secure Cooking with Linux, Part 1
The authors of Linux Security Cookbook have selected a number of
recipes from their book to present on ONLamp. These recipes are
organized into basic, intermediate, and advanced categories. This
week's set consists of three recipes of a basic flavor. You'll find
recipes on authenticating by public key, encrypting backups, and
combining log files. Over the next two weeks we'll present the
intermediate and then advanced recipes. There'll be something for
everyone here. Enjoy.
Changes in pf: Packet Filtering
OpenBSD's packet filter has really grown up. Since its introduction
in OpenBSD 3.0, it's become an advanced tool for networking and
security. In the third of four articles, Jacek Artymiak explores
new options for packet filtering with pf in OpenBSD 3.2, after NAT
and redirection have taken place.
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