Issue #71 / Oct 2006

What does Charly’s recent two-week vacation in Holland have in common with an SSH session? Nothing at all, at first sight. And therein lies a tale.

We’ll show you how to build your own Netfilter extension with this example of a musical firewall.

Spammers don’t just send email. They exploit discussion forums and blogs, posting pseudo-messages full of links to dupe search engines. A Perl script cleans up the mess.

Mindmaps are useful for organizing ideas and data. Treeline is a promising mindmap tool for KDE.

If you have a need for custom groupware, try rolling your own with the Simple Groupware suite.

Linux has the right tools to track down network errors and open the way for data packets.

Blue skies, lots of sun, a great conference venue, and about 200 Linux enthusiasts – that’s the perfect recipe for another successful UKUUG summer meeting at the University of Sussex, Brighton.

OSCON continues to grow in popularity and influence. Our Perlmeister stopped in for the talks, the tutorials, and the latest news from the battle lines of the digital millennium.