I just finished creating KwtLinux group on facebook as its will help in spreading the word. Specially that facebook has become one of the largest communities packed with users from Kuwait, If you are a facebook member you can go ahead and join us here.

If you are working with servers, you probably came through this issue before. Let's say you have two servers and you need to setup an automated backup or you want to share files from different server yet you want to save time writing scripts to pull the files or push the backup through FTP. Mounting a remote folder will save you lots of time since the mounted folder will act like a local folder and all you have to do is move or copy your files to the local path and its will be placed on the remote server. so, its useful for many uses and here is the steps on how to set it up on a linux fedora.

First, you will need to install the required package

 
yum install fuse
yum install fuse-sshfs

Then, grant the user access to the fuse group

 
usermod -G fuse linuxuser <em>Replace linux user with your linux user</em>
 

Now, you are ready to issue the command which will mount the remote folder on your current system.

 
sshfs -o nonempty 192.0.0.1:/remote_folder/full/path /local_folder/full/path
 

Where nonempty means that the remote folder is not empty
192.0.0.1 is the remote server IP address (local network or over the internet)
/remote_folder/full/path is the full path for the remote folder
/local_folder/full/path is the full path for the local folder to mount on (folder should be created first)

Put on your questions in the comment section if you have any & hope have fun networking,
Have a good day all,

Update: If you wish to unmount the folder you can use the following command

 
fusermount -u /local_folder/full/path
 

Recently I've been looking up desktop's to use with Linux & for gaming purposes. & I came across Alienware which is extremely powerful for personal desktops, as I wondered around reading about Alienware I came to know that they been around for sometime now. Most review shows that people are highly satisfied with Alienware performance specially with Ubuntu graphical interface & since most Alienware running at least a NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual Graphics which makes the Ubuntu experience superb.

Alienware desktops starts at 1,199$ with the Area-51 7500 & can goes up till 5,149$ with the Area-51 ALX Crossfire. Also it comes with Windows Vista of your choice & can easily be replaced with your favorite linux distribution off course. You can see a list of all the Alienware desktops here or list of the laptops here.

You guys might have encountered PDF files with password protection sometime or the other.

Its easier to hack those password protected files now with UBuntu.

You wouldnt be needing those KD sucking software anymore.

Go to console/terminal, type the following code.

$ pdftops protected.pdf out.ps
$ pstopdf out.ps out.pdf

Where,

protected.pdf is the protected PDF file

out.ps is an intermediate output of the protected PDF file

out.pdf is the final cracked PDF file

Thats it for the day. More hacks to come.