iptables to brake free from the ISP jail

You are asking yourself about the title of this right?
Well I received a couple of e-mail from bulgarian people about how to overcome the local restrictions we have in our country. For information I will say unlike other countries Bulgarian ISPs are doing everything possible to make you unable to share your internet traffic. So let's get started.

This is fast and I am going to ask you to read additional materials about what I will type here.

So first you got a linux box.
Second you need iptables.
Then open a console/terminal and authorize yourself as a root (the command is "su -").

The first thing to do when root is type in:
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s IPADDRESS -j MASQUERADE

You should substitute IPADDRESS with the ip address of the host which we want to provide internet to. Basically many people don't use MASQUERADE but SOURCE NAT but this has a drawback with a certain configuration cause if you change addresses or if you have a dynamic address you can't use it.

> iptable -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j TTL --ttl-set 126
> iptable -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 -j TTL --ttl-inc 1

The first line is the thing we actually need.
It alters the TTL so it does not expire ;)
You can have the second one line in order to set the TTL from the other host to the same as it has come from your host! This is made for the reason your ISP doesn't understand that you have a host behind you.

Make sure to change the address in the example to the one you need!

So if you need more info about the commands and iptables please refer to http://www.netfilter.org/

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OpenSuSE to rival VISTA

While the eyes of the IT experts have spent plenty of time looking to see the new Microsoft's unfolding operating system named VISTA, the open sourced companies and individuals have been building the Linux operating systems for a better adoption from the Desktop users.

Two of the best and most wide spread to the Desktop Linux distributions - OpenSUSE and Ubuntu both of which offered the best of open source software.

UBUNTU is a DEBIAN based distributions and it is fairly young linux distro but offers its users a really wide (maybe the biggest) package lists. Its tools for package management are just great and it is fairly one of Microsoft's rival. It has a strong community which keeps the foundation of this distro solid and offers a lot of friendly support for new users.

The openSuSE or just the old SUSE linux is the other M$ rival. It is by far in my experience the GREAT Microsoft rival ever. It has always been towards Desktop and usability. A truly DESKTOP linux distribution which offers its new YaST tool. Well not that it is new but it is far better than the last YaST I have tried. It is by far faster and comfortable to work with. A tool that many distros does not offer for their Desktop users. The great thing about the new OpenSuSE is that it ships with all the enterprise considered packages such as XEN, AppArmor ... and even the more cool desktop oriented XGL/Compiz. Those things make OpenSuSE one of the most COMPLETE Desktop and Enterprise Linux distributions. With its YaST tool it offers one stop CONFIGURATION utility which serves a really good job for new and even a bit more experienced users. So this by far over takes what UBUNTU offered us.

Both UBUNTU and SUSE offered us comfort and usability when installing and when working with. UPGRADING from old UBUNTO and SUSE to the newest version is fairly easy. I personally find OpenSUSEs YaST upgrade tool for more intuitive but that might be cause I am a suse user since time ;) One cool thing about OpenSuSE is that behind it stays a Profit Organization like Novel which contributes to the development of this great distribution.

So UBUNTU might be a little behind MS new VISTA but OpenSuSE still keeps the fight.
What really goes beyond what other distros offer is the new start menu on both KDE and GNOME desktops. It is a VISTA like menu which offers us FAVORITES , MOST USED and other menus to ease and speed up our work... or just to make us feel comfortable. The new 10.2 also includes a new SuSEUpdater applet which serves a better use than the old ZMD was doing.

Also I found that OpenSuSE 10.2 comes with the newest of the power management daemons. But really the best thing I found recently while testing this with one of my colleagues was that actually VISTA is a lot more unfriendly to the hardware (ESPECIALLY NOTEBOOKS) and it consumes a lot more than SUSE. Yes MS released litter versions and so one and still I have to say that I have no problems running it on my ACER notebook with just 512MB of RAM... while VISTA is a bit of a pain on the same machine.

Well the new OpenSuSE 10.2 is by far more friendly and stable than the new VISTA Microsoft has offered us. It really comes with a great GUI to rival VISTAs AERO theme and also provides more compatibility with the hardware requirements than VISTA.

But the question still is: "Is this the year of the linux desktop?"

I bet for me it is... this and the previous one years too ;)
What about you?

Comments are highly appreciated!

For some screenshots check this link - screen shots

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Linux people are sexy!

If you think LINUX is only an operating system you were WRONG !!!
If you think LINUX is only a way to do job or money you were WRONG !!!



Well many of us know that most of the people using linux have a sweet spot for it. It is sometimes like a secret passion for it... no matter for administering a network, developing or desktop use a linux guy is a passionate user of this operating system. According to some materials in the world wide web :) was found that men using linux have not only developed a passion for it but also for a lot of other things in someway. Well I started my own research and found out that LINUX MEN were at all passionate people and they really did almost everything in their life with fun and passion.

What I found out recently was surprising!
I found that many HATERS (so called by me people that just hate everything surrounding them) switch their point of view after starting using a LIXUX OS. I mean they started all positive thoughts and become somewhat different people. This was very strange for me so I wanted to pull my research at the next level. I did asked them questions that revealed me information about this topic but they did not understood that I was making any kind of research. Then I went to some girlfriends of them and spoke with them about their relation ships. Some of them didn't quite submit the info I wanted but others where kind enough to respond to my research.

Well the surprising fact was that some girls and ex ones did agree to experiment. I asked them to put t-shirts on a penguin or something that will remind their beloved one about linux or something like that. So a few of them get KDE t-shirts and a few others made themselves penguin T-shirts .... third group just buy one from the internet.

So the next step was to wait... I actually almost forget about this research after time, but I recently met an old girl friend and she reminded me about this :)
So I interviewed her and opened my research again. I called some of the girls that were participating in my research and take them to a cafe. I didn't even spoke about the topic and 90% of them started as a second topic on the meeting the LINUX MEN PASSION topic. They said that their boyfriends totally freaked out about the penguin :) after a while they became more passionate and increased the amount of time spend on their relation ships. So girls where totally satisfied with the result. They even told me about hanging around only with the LINUX t-shirt (I actually mean without much clothes on) which was the TOP of the iceberg ;) boys just freaked out with this exotic women behavior. This actually verify an old post I found before quite some time about a women doing this with her boyfriend.

But here comes the interesting part which I didn't believed for true.

ABOUT 60% OF THE LINUX MEN BECAME THE ULTIMATE LOVERS.

Girls say that they never experienced such a passion before :)

So here are the statistics:

83 girls participated
- 67 voted for a very good relation ship after the LINUX t-shirt experiment (54 said that their intimate life was better too after the experiment)
- 8 said bad things
- 8 said they didn't found change or that their boyfriends behave not bad but differently and they couldn't say if it is good or bad

As part of the results I will reveal that some of those girls said that they achieved this thanks to their LINUX t-shirt while those with the KDE one weren't so successful... no offens to KDE... I am currently using it from about 5+ years and counting :)

So as a conclusion I want to say that the LINUX penguin logo and even the sign LINUX is a good stimulant for most of the hackers out there :) so girls if you are desperate to draw the attention of your beloved one from the PC to you ... go get a cool t-shirt ;)
If you don't know where to get it :) well try one of the Linux Distributions Home Page (it is better to be his favorite distro ;) ) they usually sell such things or just try finding one at e-Bay.

So good luck with your man ;)

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It will be interesting for me to find out if this works on girls too so if someone has info please share it with us!

Bad that I do not know a lot of LINUX girls to test this myself ;)

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