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The best tips & tricks for bash, explained

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 [...]

SSH and SCP: Howto, tips & tricks

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 [...]

List of Free Anti-Rootkit/Rootkit detection software for Windows

Rootkits are program(s)which take fundamental control as Administrator access of a computer system, without authorization by the system’s owners and legitimate managers. Typically, rootkits act to obscure their presence on the system through subversion or evasion of standad operating system security mechanisms. Often, they are also Trojans as well, thus fooling users into believing they [...]

Linux Tips: find all files of a particular size

The Unix find command is a very powerful tool, and this short post is intended to show how easy you can achieve something that might look complicate: to find all the files of a particular size. Let’s assume you are searching for all the files of exactly 6579 bytes size inside the home directory. You [...]

HowTo recompile Debian packages

This article will show how you can rebuild any debian package. You might need to rebuild a package for various reasons: add/remove some compilation options, make some changes to the sources, or compile a newer version from testing/sid into stable, etc. Regardless of your reason, this can be done very easy using debian tools. First [...]

How to enable Sendmail Multiple Queues

Sendmail will use by default a single mail queue. This is what most users will need, and if you don’t have any special requirement you will not care about this. Still for high traffic mail servers it might be useful to split the queue over several directories, as thousands of files in a single directory [...]

How to Enable sendmail mailstats

Running mailstats on a debian etch server running sendmail was returning the following error: # /usr/sbin/mailstats MSP statistics… mailstats: /var/lib/sendmail/sm-client.st: No such file or directory MTA statistics… mailstats: /var/lib/sendmail/sendmail.st: No such file or directory The StatusFile was enabled in sendmail.cf (the default location as no definition was overwritten in sendmail.mc): # grep StatusFile /etc/mail/sendmail.cf O [...]

SubInACL – Display or modify Access Control Entries in 2003/XP/2000

SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain. For example, if a user has moved from one domain (DomainA) to another (DomainB), the administrator can [...]

Wireshark – network protocol analyzer for Vista/XP/2003/2000

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Features Wireshark has a rich feature set [...]

How to setup and configure DNS from Command line in Windows Server 2008 & Core

With the coming of Windows Server 2008 Core, its time to go back to the good old days of command line. We can add the DNS Server role and add manage DNS Server including setting up Forward and Reverse Lookup zones from the command line. The following procedure should help you to setup and Configure [...]

List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP

General keyboard shortcuts loadTOCNode(2, ‘moreinformation’); • CTRL+C (Copy) • CTRL+X (Cut) • CTRL+V (Paste) • CTRL+Z (Undo) • DELETE (Delete) • SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin) • CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item) • CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to [...]

How to stop http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx from loading every time IE7 is started

Solution 1 you need to open notepad and add the following lines and save as IE7FIX.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] “RunOnceComplete”=dword:00000001 “RunOnceHasShown”=dword:00000001 Now you need to right click on IE7FIX.reg file click on Merge when you get confirmation dialogbox click ok Solution 2 Create a BAT/CMD file with Notepad with the following [...]

How to Convert OST to PST format for outlook

A lot of users nowadays face the necessity to convert all information from Microsoft Exchange (files with the .ost extension) into files of the Microsoft Outlook mail client (.pst files) First you need to Download ost2pst.exe file from here and install this program Once it opens  you need to select the .ost file to convert [...]

Error “There is not enough disk space” when installing SP3

You may experience the following error when installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) when installing on Intel IMAC using Bootcamp to run Windows XP. There is not enough disk space on C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 3 Setup requires an additional 4 megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the [...]

List of Free Antivirus software for windows Vista/XP/2003/2000

Avast Free antivirus avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for come users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! Our company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many users are [...]