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TinyFlux is a PCLOS remaster using Fluxbox as the sole window manager. The original reason for this was I was trying to create a mini-PCLOS that would load on an old laptop I have knocking around. In the end, I got it loaded, but couldnt get it to install. Anyway, despite this, I have started to delve into the workings of fluxbox and found it to present a different user experience, a different ethos if you like, for people who want a minimal style to their OS. In short, this simple window manager has won me over!
Many lite Linux distros use Fluxbox or have it as an option although other window managers (icewm, XFCE to name but two) have become more popular in recent times. DSL and Feather Linux are two distros that I know make use of Fluxbox.
When I first came across Fluxbox, I was coming from the wrong angle. I wanted a lite distribution to work on old hardware but expected the look and feel of KDE, Gnome or Windows. Fluxbox is not memory intensive, so it is ideal for older hardware, but what it lacks in bells and whistles, it makes up for in a uniquely minimal GUI experience. If you need convincing, either try my test release or install Fluxbox from Synaptic in your normal PCLOS install and try it for a while.
I initially started working down from a fresh PCLOS install, removing KDE and various components as I went along. I managed to get the live-cd size down to around 500MB, but I was after something smaller still. I discovered the TinyMe project and saw that the guys on that project have done a great job of stripping out some of the excesses of the main OS. I decided from then on to use TinyMe as the base for my first release - TinyFlux. The ISO is roughly 225MB. It is slightly larger than the TinyMe base as both Fluxbox and GDM the login manager take up more room than the TinyMe counterparts.
Main features:
- Fluxbox window manager
- i586 Legacy Kernel 2.6.18.8
- Gnome Display Manager (GDM) for login
- Thunar File Manager and Searchmonkey for desktop searches
- XFBurn for CD burning
- Opera web browser, Flash 9 and Sylpheed mail client
- XMMS for audio playback
- Medit and Ted for basic text processing
- GQView for picture viewing
- Synaptic, PCLinuxOS Control Centre and Draklive Installer
- Xterm and various X-Utilities.
Enhancements:
- File manager is now Thunar rather than PCManFM. This is because Thunar has better support for removable media. In fact, I would be very interested to hear anyones report or using removable media in this release CDs or USB drives.
- File Manager Super User Mode added to user accounts (in System sub-menu)
- XFBurn added for a modicum of CD writing/burning support.
- XMMS added for music playback
- Searchmonkey added for desktop/file searching.
- Transparency enabled and new default TinyFlux theme for user accounts (thanks to KDulcimer for inspiration. His theme is included PCLOS-KlearBlue)

Super Slide Me is an application to create image galleries.

By a user-friendly interface, you can resize and rotate images and make slideshow presentations, eventually with sound in background.

Run a web server inside LAN is a simple script to run a WWW server inside a Local Area Network. Run a web server inside LAN script assume all iptables features are compiled statically in the kernel, or all modules are loaded.

Otherwise you may encounter some surprises trying to utilize the more featureful and creative commandlines that Ive come up with.

Sample:

#external and internal interfaces
EXT=eth0
INT=eth1

# clear everything, and create my cascading chains
iptables -F
iptables -N e0
iptables -N tcpin
iptables -N udpin

# e0 is the name of our chain for eth0
iptables -I INPUT -i $EXT -j e0

# OUTPUT Chain
iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXT -j DROP -p icmp --icmp-type ! echo-request

# remote gnutella queries were really pissing me off one day
# iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXT -j DROP -p tcp ! --syn --dport 6346
# iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXT -j DROP -p tcp ! --syn --sport 6346

# $EXT Chain
# a single rule to accept SYN Packets for multiple ports (up to 15)
iptables -A tcpin -j ACCEPT -p tcp --syn -m multiport --destination-ports 873,993,995,143,80,113,21,22,23,25,53

# stateful connection tracking is wonderful stuff
# ESTABLISHED tcp connections are let through
# If we send a SYN out, the ACK is seen as RELATED
# then further communication is accepted by the ESTABLISHED rule
iptables -A e0 -j ACCEPT -m state --state ESTABLISHED
iptables -A e0 -j ACCEPT -m state --state RELATED

# certain ports I simply DROP
iptables -A tcpin -j DROP -p tcp --syn -m multiport --destination-ports 6346,139

# UDP rules...
iptables -A udpin -j DROP -p udp -m multiport --destination-ports 137,27960

# I run a DNS server, so we must accept UDP packets on port 53
iptables -A udpin -j ACCEPT -p udp -m state --state NEW --destination-port 53

# lets log NEW udp packets on ports 1024:65535, then let them through
iptables -A udpin -j LOG -p udp -m state --state NEW --destination-port 1024:65535 --log-level debug --log-prefix UDPNEW --log-ip-options
iptables -A udpin -j ACCEPT -p udp -m state --state NEW --destination-port 1024:65535

# lets log NEW tcp packets on ports 1024:65535, then let them through
iptables -A tcpin -j LOG -p tcp --syn --destination-port 1024:65535 --log-level debug --log-prefix TCPNEW --log-tcp-options --log-ip-options
iptables -A tcpin -j ACCEPT -p tcp --syn --destination-port 1024:65535

# lets log INVALID or NEW tcp packets on priveleged ports, then DROP
# (remember I have certain ACCEPT rules higher up the chain)
iptables -A tcpin -j LOG -p tcp -m state --state INVALID,NEW --destination-port 1:1023 --log-level warn --log-prefix TCPPRIV --log-tcp-options --log-ip-options
iptables -A tcpin -j DROP -p tcp -m state --state INVALID,NEW --destination-port 1:1023

iptables -A e0 -p tcp -j tcpin
iptables -A e0 -p udp -j udpin
iptables -A e0 -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix NETFILTER --log-ip-options -m state --state INVALID,NEW
iptables -A e0 -j DROP

# NAT Rules
# I run a web server inside...
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.4:80

Just Another Port Scanner (JAPS) is an easy to use, bare-bones TCP port scanner. JAPS requires the GTK+ library to run. I created JAPS because I felt it would be a fun project and I wanted to learn GTK+ programming basics.

To compile an install JAPS just type make.

Todo
Add subnet scanning
Add progress bar
Display service name next to port number in results box
If you have any suggestions please contact me. 1

Goodgoat is an easy to use desktop that can run from a bootable cd or it can be installed to the hard drive.

Goodgoat uses portage to handle updates for the installed version. I started goodgoat as an os for my low cost computer. I thought that the Linux I had created would be useful to other people.

I have hand picked the best of breed applications and left an easy to use desktop. I start with xfce4 which is light weight and easy to use. I added firefox, evolution for email, openoffice and many other applications.

Some highlights of the system is that it has all the regular desktop application, video and audio player, and auto configuration of the network and x windows setup.

For the system administrators I have added iscsi server and client tools. You can run /etc/init.d/iscsi-target start and you are sharing hd0. Goodgoat has qemu which is the poor mans vmware only it works better if you ask me (compressed filesystem).

To install goodgoat all you need to do is install the cd version (iso file) and use the installer in the prefs menu. Some parts of the installer take a few minutes but as long as the firefox circle is spinning you just have to wait until the installer finishes. While you wait you can open a new tab or a new window and browse the web or play one of the many games included in goodgoat.

Why should you use goodgoat? Its fast and everything you need is right at your finger tips. Goodgoat works well on older computers and doesnt need a lot of memory. Goodgoat works with desktops laptops, and wifi.

If you like gentoo all you have to do is install goodgoat and run su -; emerge sync from the xterm and you have a gentoo system. I add a few additional applications that are not included with gentoo and I installed newer applications than gentoo supports by default.

Goodgoat is about as easy to install as it gets. The installer is simple in function and easy to use.

Web Ping is a program for testing your internet connection.

Web Ping is a simple application to test an internet connection to a perticular site. I created this application after my work moved locations and half our network stayed in the old building and the other half moved with us to the new location.

A flaky (significant point) VPN was set up to keep the two connected. Since a couple of the unmoved servers were of interest to me, I keeped checking to see if they were still accessable with the ping command before doing any serious work with them.

A quick and pathetic Google resulted in no other program that meet my needes, so I wrote one.

Insted of doing an actual network ping, Web Ping tests a connection by downloading a web page on a given server. The size of the page and time are stored in memory and the times are graphed. In this way, sites that block network a ping can still be tracked.

Web Ping also keeps track of the largest and smallest download times per session and also tracks the max and min values currently on the graph. Times of interest are graphed in a color which represents if it is a max or a min. (see figure one). The history tab also lists all the max values as they have been recevied.

A running average is also calculated with each download. The files downloaded are not processed or stored in any way. This prevents any security problems that can normaly happen in a web browser enviroment. The only two pecies of information retained about a downloaded file is the size and time.

Usage:

There are two ways to use Web Ping, GUI or CLI mode. The simplest of the two modes is CLI. Web Ping can be started in CLI mode by passing a url to the jar file in a command line interface like this: "java -jar WebPing.jar http://localhost". Web Ping will automaticly start getting statistics on the requested url, printing results to the screnn.

To quite, press q and then then ENTER key. CLI allows the user to Most people will probably want to use the GUI mode which has a history graph and allows the user to start and stop the session.

The best way to run Web Ping is in GUI mode. GUI mode allows the user start and stop the ping process at will and to change the site that is pinged. Users can also see more information about about the history of the pings and view max values and min values easily. There are three tabs on the top of the page, the first is the application, second is the history list, and the last give information about the application.

Authen::Captcha is a Perl extension for creating captchas to verify the human element in transactions.

SYNOPSIS

use Authen::Captcha;

# create a new object
my $captcha = Authen::Captcha->new();

# set the data_folder. contains flatfile db to maintain state
$captcha->data_folder(/some/folder);

# set directory to hold publicly accessable images
$captcha->output_folder(/some/http/folder);

# Alternitively, any of the methods to set variables may also be
# used directly in the constructor

my $captcha = Authen::Captcha->new(
data_folder => /some/folder,
output_folder => /some/http/folder,
);

# create a captcha. Image filename is "$md5sum.png"
my $md5sum = $captcha->generate_code($number_of_characters);

# check for a valid submitted captcha
# $code is the submitted letter combination guess from the user
# $md5sum is the submitted md5sum from the user (that we gave them)
my $results = $captcha->check_code($code,$md5sum);
# $results will be one of:
# 1 : Passed
# 0 : Code not checked (file error)
# -1 : Failed: code expired
# -2 : Failed: invalid code (not in database)
# -3 : Failed: invalid code (code does not match crypt)
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