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In an effort to keep the web communication secure the web browser support for older, inferior, security protocols gets phased out over time. This encourages web server administrators to employ up to date security protocols. Unfortunately, this is not always successful and some web servers still employ older and weaker protocols. If you have no alternative but to use a less secure service this post explains how to enable older security protocols in the firefox web browser.

Compositing window managers, such as Compiz and Beryl, are eye candy we have grown accustomed to. However, there is bug in certain editions of Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that makes Java applications not render some parts of their Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). All AWT and Swing Java programs suffer from this bug, including the popular Netbeans and Matlab platforms. A screenshot of Matlab running under Compiz and suffering from the JVM bug (i.e. with partially rendered GUI) is shown below.

Introduction

John the Ripper (a.k.a. JtR, or simply john) is a popular fast password cracker for both Linux and Windows. It is quite useful for identifying weak passwords. By weak, I mean ones that do not take a long time to crack. In this article I will show you how to install and use John the Ripper utility to crack weak passwords.

Few days back I have installed Red Hat Fedora 8. I have put Matlab on there as well. When I tried to start Matlab using this command: