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How To List Down Linux Partition Tables

At times, listing down all partition tables and mounted linux devices gives us a better view of what storage devices and partition types does your linux box have. Here’s a simple approach on how to list down all linux partition tables and devices from your linux box. List Down Linux Partition Tables Simply issue # [...]

How to resolve PHP Pecl Memcached module installation problems

I am using on several projects memcached and on the application side the php memcached module. This can be installed as any pear/pecl module, or from source by downloading the source .tgz and running the classic phpize; ./configure; make; make install; While trying to upgrade the memcached module to the latest version available 2.1.2 I [...]

How to create a boot CD with the specified kernel in Linux

The kernel in Fedora Core 2 and higher is too big to fit on a floppy disk, so you’ll have to create a boot CD instead. Here are the steps. 1. Each installed kernel has a dedicated subdirectory for its modules in the /lib/modules directory. Get a listing of this directory. Here there are two [...]

How to Configure Advanced TCP/IP settings in Windows

The Advanced TCP/IP dialog will allow you to configure settings relative to DNS, WINS and specify multiple IP Addresses and Gateways. To bring up the Advanced TCP/IP Settings dialog, simply right click the desired connection from the Network Connections folder, and choose properties to open the Properties dialog of the selected connection. Now select Internet [...]

How to Change Default Search Setting Inside Google Chrome

Chrome is Google’s newly released browser. It’s currently available for Windows only .Google Chrome have comed up with many few features which was not owned by other browser  but some features are same like internet explore you only need to be familier with all these stuffs .This time we are discussing on Default Search Setting [...]

How to increase PageRank In WordPress by Putting NoFollow Relationship

Blogroll in WordPress displays a list of blogger’s favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog. Blogroll provides links to external blogs in easily managed way. Some webmasters also use Blogroll to display backlinks to other external sites for link exchange or link buying. In reality, links added by WordPress blogroll is actually useless textlinks [...]

A brief to various iptables commands

We will use an example based approach to examine the various iptables commands. In this first example, we will create a very simple set of rules to set up a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall that will allow all outgoing connections but block all unwanted incoming connections:

How to Allow or Deny countries with Apache htaccess

First you need to understand the meaning of these two rules in the htaccess file. If you set “deny” in the script for countries “US,CA” (USA and Canada), all traffic from USA or Canada will be blocked. On the other hand, if you set “allow” it will only accept traffic from these two countries, all [...]

How to Block IP address of any country with iptables

Sometime it is necessary to block incoming connection or traffic from specific remote host. iptables is administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT under Linux kernel. Following tip will help you to block attacker or spammers IP address.  The blocklist is create with an API I wrote and you can use wget to update [...]

How to Reduce photo size for emailing

If you’re like me and take all your pictures with a digital camera at the highest quality possible, you may have trouble sending them by email because they will be too large. A quick way to reduce your photo size when sending it by email is to: Browse to the picture folder on your computer [...]

How to export Microsoft outlook contacts into a spreadsheet file

One of the quickest ways to send all your Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express contacts to someone is to export them into a spreadsheet file, then email the file to them. Open Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express Select File Export When the Wizard starts, select ‘Export to a File’ and click Next Select ‘Export to [...]

How to Adjust Vista’s Visual Effects to Improve Performance

If Windows Vista is running slowly, you can speed it up by disabling up to 20 of it’s visual effects: like the transparent glass look, the way menus open or close, or whether shadows are displayed. To adjust the visual effects: 1.  Go to Start >> Control Panel >> Performance Information and Tools 2.  Select [...]

How to Restore Old Versions of Files in Windows Vista

Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions), has a new feature called Restore Previous Versions.  Every time a system restore point is created, new versions of your files are created at the same time. To restore from previous versions of a file:  browse through your documents folder and right mouse click on the file name, [...]

How to Prevent Virus Attacks with Data Execution Prevention

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a Windows Vista security feature that can help prevent damage to your computer from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure that they use system memory safely. If DEP notices a program on your computer using memory incorrectly, it closes the program and notifies you. [...]