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If you are on FreeBSD 7.0 and have problem booting up HeX LiveCD with qemu, try this

kldload aio

and add -std-vga option to qemu command line. For example:-

qemu -boot d -cdrom hex-i386-1.0.2.iso -localtime -std-vga

Have fun!

Well, it seems like people like to mess around with Ubuntu logo. Some of them are creative, hilarious, and offensive in the eyes of Ubuntu users. PLEASE PARDON THE PUN. DON’T HIT ME! Especially Ubuntu-my meetup is just around the corner. Please don’t ask me for the author of those images. These are just some of the images that I came across on the net.

WARNING!

Rated 18SX: The images might contain non-excessive sexual element and they are only for viewers of age of 18 years old and above. :p

Click to view.
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Malaysian Distributed Honeynet Project led by Spoonfork was accepted by The Honeynet Project as new Chapter on the team. This was a good head start for all of us and I hope our team could work harder.

I have been using FreeBSD on Compaq Presario V3417AU notebook for quite sometimes and did not bother/forgot to post the setup notes and until few of my blog visitors dropped me query emails on Compaq presario V3000 series + FreeBSD 7. If you are looking for post on Compaq Presario V3010AU, you can find it here.

Like Compaq V3000 series, V3417AU comes with a layer lamination, subtle looking pinstripe patterns on the chassis, which ensures greater protection from scratches. As usual, I don’t pay for M$ Windows licence as the unit comes with FreeDOS preinstalled.

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The RaWPacket team has decided to move cvs to svn a while ago and thanks to Mel for importing Hex cvs to svn which can be found here.

Information Improvisation
Every business wifi today, every individual in wireless internet coverage, now that is what I call a sprint wireless world. There is easy access to wireless internet service today. With a wireless internet cafe sprouting in every street overnight, it is not a wonder. We now not only have a wireless keyboard and mouse, but a wireless printer and scanner as well.

Merry Christmas. HeX development team would like to present you HeX 1.0.2 - The Christmas Release!!!!! Grab it from :-

http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.2.iso
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.2.iso.md5
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.2.iso.sha256

Details of release announcement can be found at Hex googlegroup and geek00l’s blog

These were taken from a particular mail. They caught my attention.

The demolition of the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kampung Karuppiah in Padang Jawa, Shah Alam

Demolished

Stand-off

4 Human rights lawyers arrested handcuffed and locked up for defending Hindu temple demolition

Mr.P.Uthayakumar, Mr.P.Waythamoorthy, Mr.Manoharan And Mr.Ganabatirau

Police Report lodged against Constable Hasrul

It is sad to see all these cases taken place in Malaysia. If you’d like to know more about demolition of Hindu temples in Malaysia, feel free to visit these sites. The more I read the more absurdity I sense.

http://kula.blogsome.com/2007/11/01/unrelenting-demolition-of-hindu-temples/

http://sagaladoola.blogspot.com/2007/11/pas-samy-hindu-temple-demolition.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Hindu_temple_brought_down_in_Malaysia/articleshow/2511694.cms

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002227.html

Anyhow, I’d like to wish all my fellow Hindus pals a happy and joyful Deepavali.

With the release of OpenBSD 4.2, you will find that cdrom42.fs was not provided in OpenBSD official ftp sites. However, it is relatively easy to custom build your own OpenBSD 4.2 bootable installer CD. I will show you the steps in making your own puffer fish El Torito.

CREATE CD STRUCTURE
Create the OpenBSD bootable CD structure with this command,

%mkdir -p ~/OpenBSD/4.2/i386

DOWNLOAD OPENBSD FILES
Use ncftp or wget to download the necessary files off OpenBSD ftp site.

%cd ~/OpenBSD/4.2/i386 && ncftp ftp://ftp.jp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386
ncftp /OpenBSD/4.2/i386 > get *

Note : install42.iso is a bootable OpenBSD installer by itself. You should exclude that file.

CREATE CDROM42.FS
As this file is absent, creation of cdrom42.fs is required in order to make bootable OpenBSD iso. Bootable “El Torito” CDROMs usually use a boot loader. The loader will boot disk image located inside the iso9660 filesystem. This cdrom42.fs is the file that contains both boot loader and disk image. Not too worry. It is trivial.

Thanks to Rainer Krienke for creating a nice El Torito boot image extractor in PERL, called “geteltorito“. Grab a copy/make executable and extract El Torito boot image from the file cdemu42.iso with this simple command.

%geteltorito cdemu42.iso > cdrom42.fs
Booting catalog starts at sector: 29
Manufacturer of CD: Copyright (c) 2007 Theo
Image architecture: x86
Boot media type is: 2.88meg floppy
El Torito image starts at sector 30 and has 5760 sector(s) of 512 Bytes
Image has been written to stdout ....

CUSTOMIZATION
You can add whatever files you want them to be included. Just copy them to ~/OpenBSD/ . I normally will put stuff like ports.tar.gz, src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz and etc.

CREATE OPENBSD BOOTABLE INSTALLER CD
mkisofs comes handy in creating our bootable CD. Just issue this command and wait for it to be generated.

%cd ~/OpenBSD && mkisofs -vrTJV "OpenBSD 4.2" -b 4.2/i386/cdrom42.fs -c boot.catalog
-o OpenBSD42.iso ~/OpenBSD/

Now you will have OpenBSD42.iso. Burn it to a blank CD-R and Volia! Do support the OpenBSD project. Buy CD/T-shirt. They look really cool!!

We are pleased to release Hex LiveCD 1.0.1 to address boot performance and javascript issue on firefox. This build should be perfect version for FreeBSD 6.2-stable based Hex LiveCD. We will go 7.x and unionfs (hopefully) for next release.

Download link:

http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.1.iso
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.1.iso.md5
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.1.iso.sha256

Please let us have your feedback if you tried it out.

Official site and details:
http://www.rawpacket.org/
http://groups.google.com/group/HeX-liveCD

That’s right. Today is the big day for us at Rawpacket to release our Network Security Monitoring & Network Based Forensics Centric liveCD - HeX version 1.0 Release. See details on geek00l’s blog.