ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials have detained a senior Taliban leader in North West Frontier Province capital Peshawar, Dawn newspaper reported on its website Saturday.

Root login is perhaps one of the very few vulnerabilities that Linux operating system faces. A person can hack into your system as a root user easily and can play with security settings. This guide will show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the security issue. This will force a hacker to have to go through a double security checks where he will have to give 2 separate passwords to gain root access. What happens is you'll first need to login as your admin user in SSH, then switch to the super user with the su command to get root. It also forces the use of SSH protocol 2, which is a newer and more secure SSH protocol. This almost nullifies any chance of unauthorized access to your root account.

Hello golfers and golf enthusiasts. The other day while watching Tiger play, suddenly it came to me that golf can actually accomodate plenty of gadgets if searched for and placed appropriately. So today, what I am gonna do is to give you a list of top 10 gadgets for golfers. After reading this, I don’t think you will be a better golfer by being able to hone and optimize your skill only and only towards golfing and every thing else will be taken care of these 10 gizmo friends of yours. Read the full story at gadgetophilia.com

There is a very useful but rarely used command in Linux, watch. While those of you who know about it are surely aware of all the easy works it does for you, I want to tell it to them who didn't know about it. watch literally watches over what you intent to use it for. From your mail account to linux directory listings to interrupts - watch can watch it over for you and display the results repeatedly at your desired time interval.

Contusa is a simple java interface which helps you to connect to your system remotely by sending an SMS. All you need to have is a working Twitter account. Contusa is written in java; The core part is a Twitter API wrapper based on java (it is available on thinktankmaths). The basic idea of contusa is very simple . You have a set of commands configured against particular keyword (sms code). We need contusa on the end machine contusa keeps on listening to your twitter account, and whenever it finds a new status on the twitter account it checks its pre configured command library .if it finds any match, it starts executing the particular code against the status.