Brief History of Nearly Nothing! » open Source http://rizalafif.net Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:59:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 My Asus EEE PC http://rizalafif.net/2007/12/my-asus-eee-pc/ http://rizalafif.net/2007/12/my-asus-eee-pc/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:07:15 +0000 rizal http://aminur.info/2007/12/25/my-asus-eee-pc Finally, the long wait paid off. It was the first day at work after Hajj Holiday and when I reached office at the ground floor– few Malaysian colleagues of mine telling me that there’s a box awaited me at the reception. I knew this would be the day!
My Asus EEE PC finally arrived in Riyadh — I think it would be the first Asus EEE PC 8G in Saudi Arabia as I was told it was just released sometimes early this month in Taiwan!!

So I opened up the box, put the battery on , and press the start switch , as mentioned in few reviews (one here) the boot up time was amazingly fast — maybe my Nokia E90 startup time is much longer than this! Nothing much I can say about the default software bundled with the laptop, Xandros hmm.. — immediately I did my research on which version of Linux would be the best candidate for this machine.

Anyway to cut it short that evening at home — using the guide here , my EEEPC was converted to Ubuntu- I first thought of having a lighter version of Xubuntu but later found that Ubuntu performed quite well with the current specs. ( I got the Ubuntu ISO downloaded last week!)

The only thing I hate about this machine is the keyboard was cramped – the button was to small compared to my huge fingers! But my typing is improving now just need few days of practices .. I hope!
Asus EEE PC with Ubuntu 7.10

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driftnet

Please focus on the application in the middle. It is a linux based and called Driftnet – the task of installing was easy in Ubuntu (did I tell you how I love apt-get?) What in the world is Driftnet?

Quoted from Driftnet website

Inspired by EtherPEG (though, not owning an Apple Macintosh, I’ve never actually seen it in operation), Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic.

In short – it is an image sniffer and if you placed it correctly/strategically in the network, you can see all the images passing through -or in other words you’ll see what everyone in the network are watching in their browser at that time in realtime!!

I read about it many years ago in Linux Journal and I think I have tried it once before so having the new mini-itx box with me now, I am recollecting all those interesting apps to be installed in this 60GB computer :)

Use it at your own risk — don’t get caught sniffing images at your office’s network!


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