hackthissite.org

the first webpage based hacking site i`ve worked on; and certainly among the best. this one offers you sections which test your skills on a variety of levels like….

um… on second thought, i think its best that you check out the site for yourself, without me playing spoiler…

i`ve finished all of the basic and javascript missions, few realistic,extbasic and logic missions and fewer application missions. have`nt touched the stego or the Irc missions(oopsi! gotta set straight!!!)

and at last ubuntu`s starting to look pretty darn good….!!!

i`ve never really liked the orange and brown combination which comes by default in an ubuntu machine. its unique, but dull and boring. even nvidia drivers can`t improve the looks very much as its just the desktop effects which get enhanced.

surfing the internet, checking out themes for ubuntu was interesting; there were LOADS of cool ones. the desktop i`m using right now is NOT my creation in its entirety; its got bits of different themes here and there. still its taken me a lot of surfing around to make up my current desktop – so i might as well brag about it and put up pictures of it on the internet .

so, wht do ya thnk?

installing google-earth on ubuntu…..

google-earth is`nt a package you`d get from the default ubuntu repository…. so you`d have to use the medibuntu repository…. in order to add the medibuntu repository, type out the following in your terminal.

1. sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list \ -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

2. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring

3. sudo apt-get update

the above mentioned steps ought to update your repositories. all that`s left is a one-step-installation. Do

sudo apt-get install googleearth

using google-earth is childs play…. here`s a screenshot…

installing flash player on ubuntu 8.10

an rpm file for flash player can be obtained from their website.. however, trying to install the package using the rpm command is simply a waste of time(which i figured out the hard way;-) ). what you gotta do in order to have flash player up on your browser is convert your rpm file ino a deb file. you could do this using another package named “alien”.

to get alien – “sudo apt-get install alien” should do.

in order to convert the rpm file into a deb file do – “sudo alien -k <your-package-name>”.

and in case you dont know, installation from a deb package can be done by – “sudo dpkg -i <package-name>”.

i s`pose this should work for any other rpm package as well…. have`nt tried out converting the vmware player rpm package i downloaded recenltly.

hope this works 4 u 2….