SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet, adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology. In order to be able to watch sopcast streams you need to start the p2p client and once the p2p connection is established connect …

Introduction

The Gentoo package manager, Portage, uses a lot of disk space mostly due to a high number of small files. By storing the tree in a SquashFS file the used disk space goes down from about 740MB to 70MB !! It is also a lot faster due less number of …

Again I created ebuilds for tools I came across recently:

• net-analyzer/dnsenum
  
  DESCRIPTION="A perl script to enumerate DNS from a server"
  HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/dnsenum/"
  
  Very useful DNS information gathering tool during reconnaissance phase. Also part of the BackTrack distribution.
  Both the standard and the big …

Installation

1. Unmask and install the Android SDK update manager:

emerge dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager

In case you run into issues during compilation of any java ebuilds, try using the oracle-jdk-bin (1.7) !
For some reason on my machine some ebuilds failed using the icedtea-bin.

2. Add all users who should be …

On Hardened Gentoo Linux usb_inst.sh script fails because it attempts to run binaries which use RWX mmap and thus they are killed by the kernel due to PaX mprotect:

/mnt/iso # bash ./usb_inst.sh 
Device [/dev/sde] detected as [         Patriot Memory  ] is removable and size=15258MB
* Device [/dev/sde …

How to use my overlay

As my overlay was recently added to the layman list of overlays you can now easily add it running:

layman -S && layman -a quarks

or you checkout out the repository manually:

git clone git://www.startux.de/quarks.git
git clone http://www.startux.de …