Netbooks Now - Time To Buy?

As the prices continue to drop on netbooks, it has some people wondering if the prices will end up falling even further? Still, with so many netbooks running specs that are just too low for daily use, the charge remains that many distros can run on them no problem. Sure, unless you use YouTube or anything else that is not viewing a website from 1999.

Look, netbook or notebook, get as many hardware upgrades as possible when shooting for the low end. While you might not really need the next Dual-core system with four GBs of RAM, it would also be cool to be able to edit documents without it taking all day for them to load.

Should you steer clear of the VIA setups? For me, I break it down this way. Never buy from an OEM unless they are also providing you with aftermarket support. If this is too much trouble, then you need to think the hardware you are about to select.

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Firewall with iptables using mac address filtering

There are times when you might need to filter the traffic on your firewall using MAC addresses instead of IP addresses, iptables has the option to do it.

From the man page of iptables:

Note that this only makes sense for packets coming from an Ethernet device and entering the PREROUTING, FORWARD or INPUT chains.

You may want to insert this line in you firewall script.

iptables -A INPUT -m mac –mac-source 00:11:2f:8f:f8:f8 -j DROP

This way the packets comming from the network element with the MAC address 00:11:2f:8f:f8:f8 will be denied.

That is if you want to block the incoming packets to the firewall, but the blocked machine may still be able to send packets across the firewall, so to block those packets, you may want to add also this line.

iptables -A FORWARD -m mac –mac-source 00:11:2f:8f:f8:f8 -j DROP

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Paragon NTFS For Linux v2.0

Paragon NTFS for Linux gives transparent access to any NTFS partition under Linux OS so you and any application can browse these drives, read and change files, and copy and create new files and folders.

This download package is free and contains full functional Paragon NTFS for Linux drivers for the most popular Linux distributions with their default kernels only. This package contains a demo version for any Linux distribution as well.

[2M] [Linux kernel 2.6.X] [FREE]

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