The Best Compression available

When working with files, especially large files and need to be transfered over the network, one optimization can be done is with the file size. We can compress the file to the smallest size, but how small is small ? So i look up for some comparison about the file compression to be used in linux system. For usual compression in linux, the compression used was .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 . I prefer use .tar.bz2 because better than .tar.gz . But you know...

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Heartbleed SSL Vulnerability

Recently the IT Security community had a security event  about OpenSSL bug which is widely use by server that implement SSL/TLS secure connection. The bug enable an attacker to see 64k size of memory content of the server without leaving a trace. This including the primary data, which is private key of the encryption. The bug revealed by Neel Mehta of Google's security team and reported the defect on April 1, 2014 to the OpenSSL team. The Heartbleed name it self come from a Finnish cybersecurity company, which also created the bleeding heart logo, and launched the domain Heartbleed.com to explain the bug to the public, which called codenomicon....

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Text To Speech in Linux Debian

Do you know that in linux, you can enjoy a good quality of text to speech application with good quality like the one available in Windows. And just like other high quality open source software, these application are free to use. The one i found out and used it is quite easy to use. I will share it in here so you can benefit with the application. First you need libreOffice, which will become the GUI. Neat right, because we usually use libreOffice...

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Debian linux Routing configuration

In Debian linux, i need to add some IP specific routing config. I have a default route for internet, and have other gateway for other services to access. So i need to be able make the routing configuration is injected when the network services loaded. How to do this are, in your /etc/network/interfaces add this : auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static   hwaddress 00:1b:24:b0:b7:8f   address 192.168.113.109   netmask 255.255.255.0   broadcast 192.168.113.255   gateway 192.168.113.224   up route add -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.113.204   up route add -net 172.30.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.113.205  ...

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