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How to Add a User on Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu Server is like any Linux variety, and has full multi-user capabilities, and a common task on any server is adding users. useradd The useradd command will let you add a new user easily from the command line: useradd <username> This command adds the user, but without any extra options your user won’t have a password or [...]

How to Create a limited user account on a Cisco Pix Firewall

This is a snippet for the Cisco Pix firewall that create a ‘limited user’ account on the firewall itself. That user will have access to all ‘show’ diagnostic commands, as well as the ability to clear the error/usage counters on interfaces and to ping other devices. This configuration does the following things: Defines two user [...]

What are the three modes of the Cisco IOS?

User: In User mode, basic interface information on the router is displayed. Well-known Cisco CCNA author, Todd Lammle, once called the user mode “useless mode” because no configuration changes can be made, nor can you view anything important at this level. It is also called user exec mode. Privileged: Sometimes called the privileged exec (or just priv mode), [...]

How to Run Remote Commands with SSH

The ssh program can  be used for monitoring remote hots. The system admin can also execute commands from his desktop which can be executed at remote servers. This is a cool facility of ssh. We can do much more on SSH. root@admin:~ # ssh root@www ‘df -h’ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubda 3.5G 2.1G [...]

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 Connect to the Zend Debugger

The combination of Zend Studio and the Zend Debugger allows you to remotely control the Zend engine. Zend Studio acts as your control panel, displaying information about the inner machinations of the engine. You can see the source code that’s running, the state of variables, and the state of the Web environment, among other data. [...]

Nokia Open Source Web browser for S60 Smartphones

Nokia unveiled the new Web browser for its world leading smartphone software, S60 platform aimed to provide smartphone users with a true Web experience when browsing full Web pages on the Internet using a smartphone. “The new Web browser for S60 is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple’s Safari Web Kit, the industry’s smallest [...]

How to set Proxy Setting In Google Chrome

  Google Chrome is a browser is used slowly and slowly by millions of users and among then many love to use there browser after setting proxy .Proxy is one one of the greatest way to hide yourself from network and to reduce chances of online hacking .You have read many articles and blog post [...]

Download Apple Safari 4: World’s Fastest Browser

Now you can download the latest Apple Safari 4 web browser. Launching its latest beta version, Apple calls it the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows computers. Apple Safari 4 powered by the new Nitro JavaScript engine claims to execute JavaScript 30 times faster than IE 7 and 3 times faster than Firefox 3; it loads HTML web [...]

How to Monitor MySQL’s performance

Here are some ideas, how you can monitor the database performance of your MySQL installation. Monitoring is always an iterative and continuous process. You need to learn what patterns are OK for your database and what are the signs of slight problems or even dangerous situations. Below are the main items you can use to [...]

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:

Script to backup all mysql database and upload to FTP

In this howto I will show you a simple bash script that dump ALL mysql databases on your server compressed to GZIP and then make a nice tar.gz file with them and upload it to the FTP of your choice.