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How To Monitor and Be Informed of IP Address Changes From Your Network

An IT client enters your company, your boss ordered you to provide a browsing local IP address for that client’s laptop for one week. Your boss gave emphasis to also monitor his IP address changes if any and let him be informed immediately for such IP address changes. But you don’t have access to your [...]

How To Install Beautiful Soup in Fedora 9

What is beautiful soup? Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features that makes Beautiful Soup powerful: Beautiful Soup won’t choke if you give it bad markup. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree. Beautiful Soup [...]

How To Bypass DNS Log Monitoring By Your ISP

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 [...]

How To Install and Configure Caching DNS on Fedora

BIND DNS are nameservers responsible basically for resolving domain names or hostnames into their equivalent IP addresses. Websites or domain names have their own equivalent IP addresses that are usually managed and provided by the same website firms. If somebody is browsing a website from his browser, this website is being resolved, looked up and [...]

How To Scan DNS BIND Conf File For Errors On Fedora

What is BIND? BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly. When [...]

Linux Software: Backup Solutions

The following is a selection of Linux backup solutions. Applications with free versions (indicated as [Free]) are listed before commercial programs. Note: Freeware and GNU Library General Public License often come with restrictions. Users should check copyright and licensing statements from the developers. afbackup [Free] afbackup is a client-server backup system allowing many workstations to [...]

How to Choose One Linux Distributions

While there are certainly many versions (“distributions”) of Linux to choose from, picking one that is right for you can be straightforward as long as you know your needs and are willing to do some research. – The balance act: Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat and Fedora Linux, Mandriva Linux, and SuSE Linux offer reliability, flexibility, [...]

Linux, the Ultimate Unix – Advantages

Low cost: You don’t need to spend time and money to obtain licenses since Linux and much of its software come with the GNU General Public License. You can start to work immediately without worrying that your software may stop working anytime because the free trial version expires. Additionally, there are large repositories from which [...]

Some of the best Useful Linux commands

Useful commands for the Linux command line This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line. arch Outputs the processor architecture. $ arch i686 cat Outputs the contents of a file. $ cat lorem.txt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut [...]

Step by step Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) setup in Vista

Vista lets you share your Internet connection with other computers on your network. Logically enough, the feature that lets you do this is called Internet Connection Sharing, which gets abbreviated to ICS. ICS can be a great way of saving time and money: instead of needing a modem and a phone line (or a DSL [...]

Checklist for SQL mail configuration

You must have a mail client (such as Microsoft Outlook) installed on the computer that runs SQL Server. Use the Corporate or Workgroup option for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not have the Corporate or Workgroup option). To select the option, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then double-click the Mail Services [...]

Google Chrome Powered by Chromium

Why has Google named its web browser Chrome? Its because the technology that powers Google Chrome is Chromium, an open-source project, and a powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications. Chromium doesn’t have an extension system as yet, but supports NPAPI-style “plugins”, such as Adobe Flash and Apple QuickTime. They are releasing all [...]

How to configure the DHCP relay feature on the PIX firewall

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) daemon must be enabled to listen for DHCP client requests. When the PIX Firewall acts as a DHCP server, PIX provides network configuration parameters to DHCP clients. Dynamically assigned IP addresses are an example for network configuration parameters. These configuration parameters provide a DHCP client with the networking parameters [...]

How to Configure and build bonding in Linux

Most popular distro kernels ship with the bonding driver already available as a module and the ifenslave user level control program installed and ready for use. If your distro does not, or you have need to compile bonding from source (e.g., configuring and installing a mainline kernel from kernel.org), you’ll need to perform the following [...]

Howto: Protect account against a password cracking attack

Usually most Linux and UNIX system use a password for authentication purpose i.e. to verify your identity. If your password is obtained using cracking attack, your data, computer, and network comes under attack. Therefore, you must protect your self from a password cracking attack. => Use shadow and Message-Digest Algorithm (MD5) passwords. => Make sure root [...]