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With recent post of converting a video file format to another video format using ffmpeg via terminal, here’s another post on alternative means of video re-encoding with a highlight feature of video editing via linux X. Introducing Avidemux Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Avidemux supports many [...]
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After following a recent post of a perfect fedora 9 desktop, which automatically installs most requested fedora desktop softwares, you can install another and more fedora applications easily by referring to another automatic fedora installer called Easylife, as an alternative automatic installer for fedora desktop systems. Easylife covers a lot of rpm package and features [...]
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The latest release for Adobe Flash Player reaches version 10, code-named Astro. As seen from Adobe’s site Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend [...]
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Resolving domains into human-readable IP addresses requires DNS IP addresses from your ISP. The DNS nature of resolving domain names into its equivalent IP addresses provides a lot of things to you and your ISP provider. DNS Nature One major thing that this DNS nature setup provides you is browsing convenience. Since DNS resolves domains [...]
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Want to make your Firefox theme look like Google Chrome? Barely days after Google chrome browser was launched, the Firefox community has developed an extension to give your the same appearance. Get the Chromifox firefox extension, called a “coat of Chrome for Firefoxâ€. Its is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on [...]
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Tired of chasing your mouse? Use keyboard shortcuts Why use your mouse if using your keyboard is faster? Save time with these shortcuts. Simplify using your mouse: change double-click to single-click Want to open files and folders with a single click? Follow these steps to change your settings. Set your windows so they all have [...]
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Running a command from your history Sometimes you know that you ran a command a while ago and you want to run it again. You know a bit of the command, but you don’t exactly know all options, or when you executed the command. Of course, you could just keep pressing the Up Arrow until [...]
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SSH SSH is some kind of an abbreviation of Secure SHell. It is a protocol that allows secure connections between computers. In this tutorial, we’ll be dealing with the ssh command on Linux, the OpenSSH version. Most Linux distributions feature the OpenSSH client today, but if you want to be sure, have a look at [...]
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If you run your own Linux server here are some tips on server hardening, liberally stolen from the CFS security GUI script for cPanel/WHM, that I have become only too familiar with since yesterday: On your firewall (you do have one don’t you?) check the incoming MySQL port and if 3306 is open, close it. [...]
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This can be achieved in many ways, but the simplest one in my opinion is to use a basic telnet connection on port 80 to the remote server and issue a regular request like “HEAD / HTTP/1.0†(I will use HEAD because we don’t care about the content): telnet remote_server.com 80 Trying remote_server.com… Connected to [...]
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I will talk in this post about setting two apache directives: ServerTokens and ServerSignature and how they can be used. Basically to provide only a minimal amount of information we will set this in the main config to: ServerTokens ProductOnly ServerSignature Off That’s it… For a more detailed describtion check out the rest of the [...]
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IP Address Tutorial: Step 1. Create a new.txt document on your desktop Step 2. Copy the following code into the new.txt document PHP: # <?php # $img_number = imagecreate(180,20); # $backcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,70,73,80); # $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,255,255,255); # imagefill($img_number,0,0,$backcolor); # $number = ” Your IP Address $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]“; #Imagestring($img_number,2,2,2,$number,$textcolor); #header(“Content-type: image/jpeg”); #imagejpeg($img_number); #?> (remove the hash) [...]
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./configure –without-apache –without-apxs –with-other-options It will tell you that as you are building it without Apache support, it is building it as a CGI binary. Then do make ; make install and it should then be installed (/usr/local/bin/php by default)
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The first step of securing the server is to prepare a chrooted environment for the Apache server with PHP module. At this point, we should perform all the steps described in the “Chrooting the server” section of the previous article. In addition, before running Apache in chrooted environment for first time, we must also copy [...]
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The last step of securing the server is implementing the logging of the GET and POST payloads, and implementing protection against Cross-Site-Scripting and SQL Injection attacks. In order to perform that, we will use the mod_security module, which we enable by adding the following line into httpd.conf: AddModule mod_security.c To enable logging of the GET [...]
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