Usage: vmplayer.exe [OPTION...] [--] [configuration file] where OPTIONS are: -v show program version -X Enter full screen mode when a virtual machine is powered on -U Enter Unity when a virtual machine is powered on -s NAME=VALUE Set Preference variable NAME to...
IT Tips
Why are news websites so prone to hosting mailware – SBS.com.au
The last time I noticed this happen is when our local radio station 2HD had a script inclusion to something noxious. Anyway IT security is important.
Securing SSH
Looking at my auth.log on an internet accessible server. I notice that there has been 3071 unsuccesful login attempts since last the logs rotated. cat /var/log/auth.log | grep invalid | grep ssh | wc 3071 49136 327541 # does any one know how to match two arguments...
Hard Disk Partitioning Fail
Just had a situation where I ran palimpsest and tried to carve another partition onto a 2TB disk which I had only put a single 500GB partition on. To cut a long story short I ended up losing the current partition on the disk which was also my /home. So not fun. In the...
Copy dot (hidden) files and normal files from one directory to another in Linux
Something that has annoyed me for the longest time. I have just downloaded a zip ball of the latest development code of gallery 3. Typically you unzip the zipball and it creates randomly named folder e.g. "gallery-gallery3-dfbfe09" then you have to copy the contents...
Rackspace Cloud Server a Good Move
So I've been running on the Rackspace cloud for a week or so. The server stays up: w 22:45:08 up 4 days, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.10, 0.10 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root pts/0 cpe-XXX-XXX-XXX- 22:45 0.00s 0.01s 0.00s w And it uses memory but...
mod_security2 sigh
Good Concept Just be prepared for head scratching I had a post with this as the URL /it-tips/getting-screenshots-working-the-way-i-like-in-lxde couldn't access with mod_security running. The reason it didn't like the word "like" in the Permalink tag. So I've changed...
SeLinux – I’ve got my eye on you
SeLinux troubleshooting
Determining the hard disk model on Linux without cracking the case
Hard disk model hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep Model Model Number: WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 Capacity and sector size hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep size Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 1907729 MBytes device size with M...
How long does it take for ddrescue to take a rescue image of 2TB SATA drive?
Answer: A long time. In my case I started at around 7:30PM last night and it's at 1343GB with another ~700GB to go and it's almost 8AM the following morning. So at the moment it's taken 12+HRs to do ~1.3TB. The total time was from 7:30PM 12/09/2011 to 2:41 13/02/2011....
