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Howto Block websites using Squid Proxy in Ubuntu Linux

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 09:10 Joby Joseph Linux / Unix - Ubuntu

You can block websites using squid proxy with 3 easy steps. First you have to create a text file with blocked domain name list such as orkut.com, gmail.com, sex.com, yahoo.com and so on. Second define and Access Control List (ACL). Third and final step Restart Squid.

First, create a file called /etc/squid/blocked.domains.acl (any file name you can use)
# cd /etc/squid
# vi blocked.domains.acl

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Google Search operators re-visited

Sunday, 24 January 2010 07:11 Tux Open Source - Open Source

Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search.

How to convert HTML template into Joomla template

Saturday, 19 December 2009 12:12 Joby Joseph How to ? - General

Converting an HTML template to a Joomla template is not as hard as you think. Only five easy steps, and you can create and use your Joomla template.

Why you want to learn this? because perhaps you stumble into beautiful free html templates while browsing on the net and really want to use it for your joomla based website.

Step 1

Prepare your template. The template should be (X)HTML & CSS compliant. There are lot of HTML templates on the Internet, just search them by using uncle Google. Templates in Joomla is filed under a directory named templates. Ensure the HTML file, images and CSS file are inside one single directory created under templates folder. For example, take a look at the Joomla template structure below:

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Last Updated on Saturday, 19 December 2009 12:47

Recover Gmail, Gtalk, Picasa Password with Google Password Decryptor

Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:55 Joby Joseph How to ? - General

If you are wonder of lost password! Google has various apps. Sometimes, we forgot our password. It will be possible now with GooglePasswordDecryptor for Recover the Password. GooglePasswordDecryptor is the free tool to recover stored Google account passwords by various applications. Most of the Google's desktop applications such as GTalk, Picassa etc store the account passwords in their private encrypted store to prevent hassle of entering the password every time. It goes through each of these application's encrypted stores and decrypts this Google account password.

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Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2009 16:32

Steganography in Ubuntu/ Debian: Hiding data in images and audio files

Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:46 Joby Joseph How to ? - Linux

steganography is the technique used for hiding various data in different type of image and audio files with out changing the basic characteristics of file. Steghide is a utility for steganography. The color- respectivly sample-frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.

Features include:
* Compression of embedded data
* Encryption of embedded data
* Embedding of a checksum to verify the integrity of the extraced data
* Support for JPEG, BMP, WAV and AU files

How to install steghide in Ubuntu / Debian
Open a terminal
$apt-get install steghide (or Use Synaptic Package Manager)

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Celebrate this Christmas with Ubuntu Christian Edition

Friday, 11 December 2009 07:28 Tux News - Linux

This holiday season, if you are religious and looking for an OS which

1) Is Free

2) Provides softwares to play music, videos, edit files, browse internet.....

3) provides filtering softwares for parental control

4) provides free softwares to study bible related things

Then the answer is Ubuntu Christian Edition.