If your Linux box is a Samba Server and you wish to enable access to it from other computers on your LAN. Use these ufw commands to work the magic. sudo ufw allow proto tcp from 10.11.12.0/24 to 10.11.12.19 port 445 sudo ufw allow proto udp from 10.11.12.0/24 to...
LaTeX Coolness
Sorry if this is nerdy but, I love LaTeX... Professional quality beautiful typesetting. You can create attractive documents with just an installation of tex-live and a text editor. You also need to install the tex-live extra's sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra...
Cisco NAT
This may come in useful in $FUTURE http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=486
Creating Ledgersmb Database Live & Test Environments
Warning: This setup can be dangerous if you forget which environment you are in you can cause damage to your LIVE environment. Login to postgres as a superuser and use \l to list your databases me@lsmbbox:~$ psql -U ledgersmb -h localhost Password for user ledgersmb:...
VMWare Remote Commands
When you want to run a VMWare Server 2.0 Virtual Machine hosted on a remote Linux box these commands might come in handy. # list your currently running VM's vmrun -h http://localhost:8222/sdk -P 902 -T server -u yourvmadminuser -p 'yourvmadminpassword' list Total...
Google thinks www.2hd.com.au is a Malware Server
Update: 2hd.com.au appears to be clean now the .cn server script includes are gone and Google is no longer warning you off when you go there. Just tried to visit 2hd.com.au and I get this in Google Chrome: I went to netcraft.com and it appears 2hd are running Windows...
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