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There is an interesting class of programs: audioplayers. What we expected from them? Playing music. What is required for this? Codecs, simple interface, playlist, equalizer. May be themes and control from keyboard. Many things can be applied to it, but audioplayer must stay a-music-player. This is primary task for such kind of program, and afterwards - cataloguer, tag converter, music collection organizer and so on. For this, spartanians and ancient-lovers remembers and likes simple yet powerful XMMS.

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APG (Automated Password Generator) is the tool set for random password generation. It generates some random words of required type and prints them to standard output. This binary package contains only the standalone version of apg.

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Many system administrators may be in the habit of re-booting their systems to make partition changes visible to the kernel. With Linux, this is not usually necessary. The partprobe command, from the parted package, informs the kernel about changes to partitions.

The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program.GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package contains the Parted binary and manual page.

Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a ‘loop’ (raw disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet.

Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the default package.

The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, they could exist, so please back up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk.

Now we need to install parted because partprobe is a part of parted package

Install parted in debian

#apt-get install parted

Now this will install partprobe and parted.Partprobe inform the OS of partition table changes. partprobe is a program that informs the operating system kernel of partition table changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the
partition table.

Syntax

partprobe [-d] [-s] [devices…]

-d Donât update the kernel.
-s Show a summary of devices and their partitions.
-h Show summary of options.
-v Show version of program.

Using partprobe

#partprobe

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If you want to convert .nrg file to .iso file you can use nrg2iso tool to create this. nrg2iso is a program that extracts ISO9660 data from Nero “.nrg” CD-ROM image files.

Install nrg2iso in Debian

#apt-get install nrg2iso

Using nrg2iso

Usage

nrg2iso [nrg-file] [iso-file]

Example

nrg2iso image.nrg image.iso

Now you can burn your iso with your preferred linux burning app.

gSTM, the Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager, is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects. It stores tunnel configurations in a simple XML format. The tunnels, with local and remote port redirections, can be created, deleted, modified, and individually started and stopped through one simple interface. It is useful for anyone wanting to securely access private services over an encrypted tunnel.

Install Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager in Ubuntu

First you need to download the .deb package from here using the following command

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gstm/gstm_1.2_i386.deb

Once you have the gstm_1.2_i386.deb package you need to install this using the following command

sudo dpkg -i gstm_1.2_i386.deb

This will complete the installation.

If you want to open this application go to Applications—>Internet—>gSTM

Once it opens you should see the following screen

If you want to add ssh tunnel you need to click on add now you should see the following screen here you need to enter the name of the tunnel and click ok

Once you click ok you can see the following screen here you need to fill all the required detailed for your host and click ok

If you want to add a port redirection you need to select add under portforwarding in the above screen

Once you click on ok you should see the following screen if you want to connect to SSH tunnel select your host and click on start it should start connecting to your host

Examples

Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop to various Windoze servers in the private LAN. Although Remote Desktop supports some degree of encryption itself and you can easily create a port-forward in your firewall. First of all you don’t want to create a port-forward for every desktop you want to reach. Second and most important, you don’t want the Remote Desktop ports open for the world to see… for obvious security reasons.

Secure POP3

If you are running a POP3 service on your *nix router/server you are probably aware of the fact POP3 is an unencrypted, plain-text protocol. Hypothetically this means any ‘man-in-the-middle’ is able to read your username, password and e-mail content. Obviously, on your private LAN this isn’t a problem, however you might want to read your mail over the internet one day…

One solution would be to install pop3s or better yet, imaps. However there is another way, without having to install additional services: an SSH tunnel.The way it works is, you connect to your router/firewall through ssh and set up a portredirect over it (ie. a tunnel). You can then connect your e-mail client to your localhost. The connection will then be redirected over the encrypted SSH connection to your POP3 service. Et voila, a secure POP3 connection.