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HowTo: Windows XP VPN Into Remote Location

Having a Secured VPN (Virtual Private Networking) server is great, especially for businesses with many offices or if you own two homes. How can you connect to these VPNs free? Well I will tell you. With Windows XP Networking you can connect to any VPN site for free and with ease. There is even a [...]

How to Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive

WHY INSTALL FROM USB FLASH DRIVE? Why would someone want to install a client OS from a thumb drive instead of a DVDROM or over the network?  One reason:  Performance.  Installing Windows Vista from a high speed USB flash drive is in my experience the easiest & fastest way to complete a Windows Vista install.  This is much [...]

How to Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer

Password Sniffer on Linux? Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis. However, those two words are being mentioned here and [...]

How to Prevent the IIS SMTP Virtual Server from Relaying E-mail Messages

1) Start Internet Information Services Manager or open the Internet Information Services (IIS) snap-in. 2) Expand Server_name, where Server_name is the name of the server, right-click Default SMTP Virtual Server, and then click Properties. 3) Click the Access tab, and then under Access control, click Authentication. 4) Click to select either or both the Basic [...]

How to setup Transparent Proxy with Squid

One of the many tasks we could be facing from time to time in our work is setting up and building a production proxy server. Proxy implementation could be done in several ways to achieve the same goal. One best bet we could have with this kind of setup is by using Squid linux software [...]

How to set Sendmail MTA

Long before the decades of email servers begun, a postman’s job is highly critical on delivering postal mails, not to consider those old transportation means to travel those postal mails and deliveries across the country and states. Technology is continuously evolving. Gone were the days on spending almost the whole day configuring a linux server [...]

Fedora 9: How to Increase PHP Upload Limits

There are times that we are limited on uploading files and images to certain web-based services that we are managing along our duties. Here’s a quick how to on increasing your PHP file upload directive. Fedora 9: Increase PHP Maximum Upload Filesize Backup and modify /etc/php.ini to have a similar lines as shown below upload_max_filesize [...]

Fedora 9: How to Install SquidGuard Proxy Filter

SquidGuard is a URL redirector and content filter addon that restricts proxy clients from accessing particular and/or banned site(s), IP addresses, URLs, website patterns using the proxy server.  SquidGuard can be used in conjunction with Squid proxy to implement website content filter from the proxy server. Here’s a run down on how to install and [...]

How To Configure Sendmail for DNS-based Blacklisting

As soon as a host connects to SMTP port running a sendmail MTA, sendmail can also be configured to check and block IP addresses of incoming emails that are found to be listed on one or more DNS blacklists. This is possible by configuring sendmail directive dnsbl or DNS blacklists. During the SMTP handshake and [...]

How To See Invisible YM Users using Linux

Yahoo messenger from Yahoo! is one of the most commonly installed messenger on windows-based desktop systems, besides from MSN messenger, which comes as a default windows messenger from windows OS. In Linux world, there are variety of all around chat/voice messengers available. From the default GNOME GAIM messenger, now known as Pidgin, there’s also Kopete [...]

How To Check Squid Logs for Possible Tunnelled STMP via HTTP Injection

If MTAs are gettings smarter and better each new stable releases, spammers are also keeping up with them. Email spammers tend to undergo adaptive learning process from these commonly laid out standard and advanced email defense and antispam mechanism. If antispam features of MTAs are getting more centralized, effective and efficient, email spammers too are [...]

How To Enable Control Power Saving Mode for AMD Processors

Is your desktop being powered by Fedora? Does AMD Athlon/Duron processors powers your system? Here’s a quick tip on how to have management and control over your AMD Athlon/Duron powered processors using Fedora 9. Athcool is a small utility, enabling/disabling Powersaving mode for AMD Athlon/Duron processors.  By installing Athcool into you desktop, you can benefit [...]

How to Monitor Your Laptop’s Remaining Battery Time and Usage

Another dockable application that keeps track of your laptop’s battery usage. Most common feature in windows world is keeping track of laptop’s battery usage. This is also supported in Fedora Linux and comes with more feature. WmACPI also supports how long your laptop is running on battery mode, including the remaining batter charges shown time [...]

How to Execute Script When Network Interface Goes down

Both on Linux and Windows world, we get used to a lot of things. This attitude of getting used to the world around us at times, shower us some attitude of just-accept-that and do-not-complain. Getting down to network connectivity, at times, we are just used to plug the cable and wait for it network card [...]

How To Enable IP Forwarding in Linux

By installation default, Linux distribution such as Redhat, CentOS, White OS, and Fedora comes with IP Forwarding disabled. The reason for this is that default linux installation, whether desktop or server, does not consider a default OS installation of forwarding IP packets and request by default, as the linux OS is not fully aware of [...]