never use bt as host OS ..use gentoo or arch

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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

http://www.howtoforge.com/mac4lin_make_ ... like_a_mac

Replaced AWN with Docky Do, upgrade to Developer PPA of Docky to hide the Anchor, then Saved the theme in System > Preferences > Appearances as MyMacTheme

To replace the Splash screen on startup use Ubuntu Tweak (also useful to add key bindings), to replace the default Plymouth Bootscreen search for PAW-OS-X-Plymouth-Theme. Additional OS-X themes for Firefox & Thunderbird can be downloaded from there respective sites, I avoided the default ones that came with Mac4Lin as they where a bit pants!

Once you've saved the theme you can ditch the mac4lin folder in /home by sending it straight into the recycle-bin.

Looks great on a white netbook & if you stand outside an apple store using your MSI Wind or Dell inspiron netbook, peoples heads do turn and if you really want to upset them tell them how much it cost!

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Lol was waiting for a Winblows comment from ya cc :P I'm switching back to Linux when I get time to load it and get winshite off my pc.

which linux distro you are goin to install ?

Check out WEAKERTHAN2 it's very similar to BackTrack but is made for being Run live as it has a Ubiquity bug ATM.

BackTrack is OK, but all the tools you find in BackTrack can be downloaded from their respective sources and loaded into any linux system, so you don't have to primarily use BT to get the same results.

I recommend Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat, Puppy Linux if you want full file system encryption (SFS), Ubuntu encrypts your home directory whereas SFS encrypts everything and without the pass, your hard-disk is useless!

Their are plenty of pretty cool distros to choose from: check http://distrowatch.com/

Love that wallpaper, reminds me of Pink Flyod & Prism 2 Chipsets :)

If your looking to compile tools onto Linux you have to get into using the shell, then you just download the file untar it, then goto it in the terminal using CD to navigate to where you extracted it and in most instances its just a simple case of doin ./configure && make && make install from the command line to install the package.

If you find packages wont compile, then your probably missing some library (dev) which can be fixed by typing sudo apt-get install build-essential at the command line or looking at what the error message is that gets spat out in the terminal, like libssh missing etc, then you can find that missing package in the synaptic package manager and then all your stuff will compile and install no problemo! If it wont then your probably missing a dependency like the source code which has -dev on the end of it.

There are tools all over the place that don't come with backtrack and once you get into choosing your favorites then you'll find you don't really need to pay for a course on offensive-security. Also by going with a main branch of a distro it'll get updated every six months to a better release and if you have newer hardware the newer kernels will tend to play nicely with it.

Cant stress learning the Console (Terminal) enough, theres a lot of commands to learn, wild-cards, statements etc and thats where 95% of all the hacker magic will happen as most toolkits are command line based anyways.

ls -lrt looks exactly the same as ls -lRt but the output varies, try it and see and remember have fun, it's all about havin fun. (one is recursive can you guess which?)

When navigating directories you can do it like this;

$cd /home/yourusername/Downloads or the quicker way is cd /home/your*/Down* <--with wildcards or even cd ~/Down* you'll end up in the same place ;)

The differences in Unix & Linux are the Shell & Kernel. One is Bourne shell ($) or as a friend of mine likes to call it "fag-shell" the other is the Bash shell (#) and the wild-cards vary greatly.

In unix & linux the directory structure is like a tree / <-- being the root of the tree. So cd / takes you to the roots of that tree!

I've seen that same friend of mine who used to be a Unix programmer walk up to a machine open a bash shell and then exploit that same shell with one line of shell-code.

So Bash it not necessarily better, just a hell of a lot more programmer friendly.

I'll spill my guts about something here for you so you don't spend the same amount of years pawing through books trying to work it out on your own the same as myself. If you have a 1MB memory buffer and you then insert a 1KB piece of Data then that is Technically a Buffer Under-Run

If you then take that same block of memory and try to insert 1.1MB of Data that is what they call a Buffer Over-Flow or Over-Run.

;)~ Case solved and no having to pay some twit to tell you now that you know and have heard it first hand from the horse's mouth so to speak.

In my experience hackers, programmers & developers like to make things sound incredibly complex & complicated, the reasons for this are simple, if you don't understand whats being said, then you have to pay them to hold your hand in a classroom. I'll use obfuscation as an example, if I design a database and attribute loads of random hidden values that only I understand and then heavily obfuscate the source code, if the company I then work for fire's me and attempts to get someone else in to modify my database and attribute new values and tables, that poor un-lucky git may be there for the next 6 to 12 months trying to figure out how the bloody thing works in the first place!

Someone once asked me how to install BackTrack tools onto Ubuntu, the answer is easier than a lot of people think, did they look for that tool in the package repository first? ie: search for DSniff, Nmap, Aircrack in the synaptic package manager after you enable all the extra repositories in settings -> repositories, there is only four or five toolkits you need to install and update by hand and those are w3af - metasploit3 - SQL-Ninja && SET (social engineers toolkit), WarVOX etc everything else is already in the repositories.

And to install Metasploit onto ubuntu just follow this handy guide:

http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/wiki/Install_Ubuntu

Every toolkit has an install guide, it's simply a case of reading the Manual or as the rest of the programming community likes to say RTFM - short for Read the F***ing Manual! ;) If you run into difficulties chances are someone else has had the same problem first, so always remember to check on google for answers to problems at hand.

You don't have to pay someone for a super cool hacker distro, you can very easily build your own dream desktop with everything right where you want it to be. Windows-Key + T opens terminal then Alt-F11 gives it full screen and it's in lovely Macintosh white. ;)

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@MCP_01: That may have been wandering off the topic of this thread a bit. I'm not sure how the discussion of learning linux commands and installing bt tools in ubuntu... however since it was a pretty full post i'll respond. Tools found in backtrack of course can be added to any linux distro however I think you along with alot of backtrack users miss out on the point of backtrack. BT is foremost a linux LIVE pentetration and forensic analysis distro/.iso/disc. It was only later that it was adopted as a full install option to hacker's of all natures. Whether you install all the tools onto ubuntu or whatever other distro makes little or no difference but the bt4 distro is made so the preservation of evidence is also a top priority. I have pretty much all the BT tool installed (that I need) in linux mint at the moment and that includes Metasploit and SET and your right it is simple to install.

Another point you raised was the offensive security training. Now I am not or ever have been a member the offensive security team, but their training is very relevant to real world scenario's and is on par if not better than the CEH exam. Both of which any professional ethical hacker at least will be looking at taking during his or her professional career. It is not enough these days to have skills, proving you have them via qualifications/courses such as the PWB/OSCP course is often needed and or required by professional employer's. Alot of infosec jobs in my country you will not get through the doors without graduating University, professional qualifications (CISSP, CEH, OSCP etc) or a lot of experience.


Anyway back on topic, keep posting your desktop's guys :)

True and valid, but I've never been one to harbor to classroom to find the answers, forensics are easy enough, I took the DC3 a few years back and found it to be very educational as far as forensics where concerned.

University I got invited but never attended, back at that time they where publishing 23K of student debt in the papers and two years of higher ed leaving you 23k in debt with no guarantee of a Job seemed like a little bit of a risk.

If I missed any of the tools out you can find them at the following places:

http://rfidiot.org/
http://trifinite.org/trifinite_org.html
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/
http://freeworld.thc.org/
http://www.bindshell.net/
http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Tools

There are a few others that I wont publish on here as the legality of them in some countries is questionable and in some places they are considered as dangerous as a munition.

They may all want us to have certificate after certificate but those certifications cost you money, you have to sit and take exam after exam and leave you with no guarantee of employ. University masters degree's, to do what, sit on a help-desk. Yes, that was quoted at me by one potential employer, its all about pleasing the Muppet that sit's in HR, always has been and always will be.

Your better off getting into Development and Developing your own software which you can then sell to make money, imho. (hey it works for apple, re-branding freely available source under their proprietary brand) become a re-seller, advertiser, then your guaranteed cash.

Back on Track, desktops.. :D

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Your desktops suck. Later when I'm on Windows I'll show you mine. If I ever switch back to Windows. Unlikely.

Showing off my new Arch Linux KDE environment. I know you're all jealous :P
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Havent really gotten a theme for conky yet. Lookin for sexy themes right now. And I know you love mah sexy terminal.

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Lol chronic, love the terminal, but all that white would annoy me lol. Neon Blue or neon green for me :P

Thinking of switching from Mint to Arch or Gentoo again. Would defo go with KDE though, having gnome would be criminal.

Lol. Deff go for Arch. One of my favorite distros now. And KDE is bossssss. I was running gnome before it then I switched but KDE kept crashing. Good thing I fixed it KDE is 5000x better.

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Arch linux + Awesome Wm

Bursihido, I hate you right now :P lol That is awesome!