Roll your own servers with Netcat
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux
One machine is set up with netcat to listen, and then other machines connect to it. Once connected, you can pipe text through it, open up a command shell on the listening machine, or anything you could do with cat on a local machine.
Learning to use mod_rewrite
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux
Apaches mod_rewrite is the packages greatest and most horrifying module. Mod_rewrite gives you the ability to manipulate URLs based on almost any condition imaginable. Server variables, environment variables, HTTP headers, and time stamps can be used to match rule sets based on regular expressions.
Preventing SQL attacks in PHP for newbies
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, php, programming
A SQL injection attack can be a major eye-opener for your site. What can you do to prevent this?
A must read for anyone migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 (or 6).
Firefox Extensions For Geeks
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, www
Mozilla’s Firefox browser is a great tool for surfing the Net. And thanks to a growing number of free Firefox extensions, it’s an especially good tool for people who want every possible ounce of browser power.
Stop or start a service - across your entire network
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, windows
Stopping and starting services in windows is easy. What if a vulnerability was found and you needed to quickly stop a service across your entire network? This command line program and script will allow you to stop or start a service across your entire network - in just one line.
Turn any PC into a NAS - dedicated storage server in less than five minutes
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux
Are you looking for low cost and lightweight network storage for your office? NASLite offers a solution. It lets you create a NAS box out of your old hardware. You can even use a 486 machine, 16 MB RAM, floppy drive, one to four IDE hard drives and a network card for it. If you want a data dumpyard on a network then go for NASLite.
Accessing remote UNIX machine GUI on Windows using Cygwin
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux, windows
This article talks about access a remote UNIX machine GUI from your Windows box.
Setting up a Syslog Server
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux
Excellent article detailing how to set up a syslog server to monitor multiple machines from one.
Howto Enable CPU Frequency Scaling in Linux
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux
Cpu frequency scaling is by default not enabled for normal users in Ubuntu. This guide shows you how to enable it through the Gnome CPU Freq monitor on the taskbar!
Tux Factory
Posted by marcin | Filed under digg, linux
Want to show off your geek side with some sweet avatars. Then check no farther tux avatars are here.
