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Online Archive Service Digitizes Docs and More for Free

Fax DepositDox physical files, and it digitizes and stores them as searchable PDFs. More: continued here

Verizon Bundles Cellphone Savings With Home Service

Verizon will slash $15 a month from the bills of customers who add cellphones to a bundle that includes TV, broadband and a landline home phone. More: continued here

How to connect to SQL Server when installing Websense Reporting Tools

The installation of Websense Reporting Tools includes a Log Server component that logs filtering data to a Microsoft SQL Server database. When Log Server is installed, the Websense installer prompts you for SQL Server connection information. If the connection values are inaccurate, or if the SQL Server instance uses a port other than the default, the [...]

How to start, stop, pause, resume, or restart a service in Windows

Note You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, clickAdministrative Tools, and then double-click Services. In the Details pane, click the [...]

How to Force history not to remember a particular command using HISTCONTROL

It is possible to instruct history to ignore a command when executing a command. # export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # ls -ltr # pwd # service httpd stop [Note that there is a space at the beginning of service] # history | tail -3 67 ls -ltr 68 pwd 69 history | tail -3

Fears of a Conficker Meltdown Greatly Exaggerated on April 1

Worries that the notorious Conficker worm will somehow rise up and devastate the Internet on April 1 are misplaced, security experts said Friday. Conficker is thought to have infected more than 10 million PCs worldwide, and researchers estimate that several million of these machines remain infected. If the criminals who created the network wanted to, [...]

How to setup VNC-Sever with no hassles with vnc-ltsp-config

To allow all users login screen access via a vnc-client to the system, you can use vnc-ltsp-config and xinetd. When a vnc-client connects to one of the configured ports, the user will be given a default standard login screen. The sessions will *not* be persistent. When a user logs out, the session is gone. Note: [...]

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 Install and Configure iptables under CentOS

Working with iptables from the command line requires root privileges, so you will need to become root for most things we will be doing. Iptables should be installed by default on all CentOS 3.x, 4.x and 5.x installations. You can check to see if iptables is installed on your system by: $ rpm -q iptables [...]

How to Verify Email Security With tcpdump

I can use tcpdump to verify that encryption is working. Here is what a plain unencrypted POP mail session looks like. This is an abbreviated example showing only the initial three-way TCP handshake. You can do this yourself by firing up tcpdump, then checking mail. Ctrl+C stops it: # tcpdump port 110 15:04:49.050227 windbag.34348 > [...]

Database Replication in MySQL – Step by Step Guide

Replication enables data from one MySQL database server (called the master) to be replicated to one or more MySQL database servers (slaves). Replication is asynchronous – your replication slaves do not need to be connected permanently to receive updates from the master, which means that updates can occur over long-distance connections and even temporary solutions [...]

How to Install and Configure NNTP Server (IIS 6.0)

Access to the news server can be open to everyone, or it can require user authentication. The NNTP service allows fine tuning of security policies and is capable of handling a large number of virtual domains and independent server instances on a single computer. The NNTP service is not installed by default. You must install [...]

How to configure Virtual Hosting using Apache 2 on Ubuntu

Virtual Hosting allow web servers to host more than one website on a sing machine. This is how sharing hosting works. I become pretty handy as well while develloping different web project on the same machine and allows you to access to your local repository using addresses such as http://dev.mysite.com instead of http://localhost/~myuser/myproject/ :) . [...]