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www.zshare.net DNS black holed
Check this out... Watching a video that was hosted on zshare.net... Tried to watch the next one in the series. Firefox kept saying that I had a problem loading the page. A little investigation and I discovered that DNS was replying with the address for localhost...
Evolution – Exchange the Sand Dune Edition
Evolution at least the Exchange integration component is so buggy you could drive it on sand dunes. Every time I update Ubuntu I try the default mail application. For Ubuntu this is Evolution. Call me optimistic but as time progresses I would hope that basic...
How many Unique IP’s have Connected to your Apache Website
This will tell you how many unique IP addresses have connected to your website since the last log file rotation. So if your logs are rotated daily then you have the number of unique IP's for roughly the last 24hour # go to your apache logs directory and run: $ cat...
MySQL Backup to Email or Disk Script
If you run mysqldump --all-databases you get one monolithic file which can be a pain when trying to restore one database. So it's nice to call mysqldump dbname so you get individual database backup files. To call mysqldump for each database requires that you either...
Security Tool not recognized by McAfee SecurityCenter
This post was written before McAfee wrongly identified svchost.exe as a virus and caused many large businesses to close their doors while the problem was resolved: Fixing a laptop for a friend gratis Has some sort of malicious application known as "Security Tool"...
I’ve fixed what I think the problem is. Why isn’t it working?
Organisations of a certain size employ IT people and harness them into a role. Those people take on the mantel of the role, learning whatever script that has been put before them. As long as the problem doesn't deviate from the script then they effectively resolve...
