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- Alerts & News: Windows 7 to have an 'XP mode' - April 26th, 2009
Microsoft is trying to make it easier to sway users of Windows XP onto the latest version of its operating system.
For some time now, the company has been quietly building a "Windows XP mode" that us... - Anti-Spam/Virus: Netsky Still The Most Dangerous Virus! - February 1st, 2009
"Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q", as it has been dubbed by Kaspersky experts, is the most widely spread threat out there in the month of September too. 25.22 percent of virus infections had NetSky.q writte... - Apache: How to Disable Directory Lising - April 12th, 2009
Preventing directory listings can be very useful if for example, you have a directory containing important '.zip' archive files or to prevent viewing of your image directories. Alternatively it can al... - Articles: Some of the useful Linux Commands - January 25th, 2009
1. How to you change file ownership and chown files recursively?
# chown user:user folder -R
2. How to view queued mail in sendmail or postfix?
# mailq
3. How to show which alternative bin... - cisco: How to configure SSH for Secure Access in Cisco - April 13th, 2009
ChicagoTech>En
Password:
ChicagoTech#conf terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
ChicagoTech(config)#hostname ChicagoTech
ChicagoTech(config)#ip domain-nameÂ... - DHCP: How to Download and Install the DHCP Package - January 25th, 2009
Most RedHat and Fedora Linux software products are available in the RPM format. Downloading and installing RPMs aren't hard.
When searching for the file, remember that the DHCP server RPM's filename ... - DNS: A brief to DNS BIND acl clause - March 24th, 2009
This section describes the use of the acl (Access Control List) clause available in BIND 9.x named.conf. The 'acl' clause allows fine-grained control over what hosts or users may perform what oper... - Email: How To Selectively Archive and Backup MBox/IMAP Mails Using ArchiveMail - December 4th, 2008
Maybe some of your mailboxes are quite large (eg, over 10,000 messages) and they are taking a while to load in your mail reader. Perhaps they are taking up too much space on your disk. Archiving old m... - firewall: How to Remove a "Blocked" IP address from the firewall - January 25th, 2009
This document describes how to remove a "block" on an IP address from
a machine.
You need:
- The machine that the user is trying to access.
- The userid for the user.
- The IP address from wh... - Guru Special: How to Save Cisco Configurations To The TFTP Server - January 15th, 2009
Cisco PIX firewall
Follow theses steps on a PIX firewall:
1) Log onto the device, get into enable mode and then enter the TFTP commands to initially configure TFTP.
pixfw> enable
Password: **... - High-Availability: How to Configure Alerts and Notifications in Websense Enterprise and Websense Web Security Suite - February 4th, 2009
Alert messages keep your system administrator informed about significant events in your Websense system and in your network as they happen. Unlike reporting, which tracks trends over time, alerting pr... - LAMP: How To Install Apache 2.0/PHP 4.3 and MySQL 5.0 on Redhat - August 11th, 2008
• Uninstall previous versions of apache and mysql
• rpm -e httpd mysql
• Download and install RPM packages of MySQL's server, client and dynamic shared libraries from mysql.com. do not opt to ... - Linux: Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) - October 22nd, 2009
Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses
virtual users from a ... - Monitoring: How to Install webmin from rpm - February 8th, 2009
Webmin is a valuable tool used for the configuration of Linux-based servers. I install Webmin by default on all of my Linux boxes simply due to it's ease of use. Webmin installs an HTTP-based GUI ... - MySQL: How to Create a MySQL "root" Account - April 23rd, 2009
MySQL stores all its username and password data in a special database named mysql. You can add users to this database and specify the databases to which they will have access with the grant command. T... - NETWORKING: How To Disable Client-Side DNS Caching - March 17th, 2009
All Internet hosts, including your computer when it is connected to the Internet, use a DNS server. Every time you go to a website, you need to look up the site's IP address using the domain name of... - News: Intel stops Core i7 940, 965 - May 11th, 2009
Intel Nehalem architecture based Intel Core i7 940 processor will be phased out later this year.
Intel Nehalem architecture based Intel Core i7 940 processor will be phased out later this... - Open Source: Dnsmasq - Opensource DNS Server Forwarder & DHCP Server - May 12th, 2009
Dnsmasq is an opensource light-weight,easy to configure and administer DNS and a DHCP Server. Dnsmasq is ideally suitable for smaller networks like Small Office and Home Office networks (SOHO) and bra... - PHP: How to Install Lighttpd with PHP5 and MySQL on CentOS 5.2 - January 30th, 2009
Lighttpd is software webserver designed to be secure, fast, standars-complaint, and flexible while being optimized for
speed-critical environments. This post using Centos 5.2.
1. Install Mysql
[roo... - Programming: A brief history of GCC - December 6th, 2008
The original author of the GNU C Compiler (GCC) is Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project.
The GNU Project was started in 1984 to create a complete Unix-like operating system as free soft... - Security: How to Protect against Phishing Attacks - December 6th, 2008
Since phishing attacks are aimed at users, user awareness is a key defense. The most promising method of stopping spear phishing is continuous periodic awareness training for all users; this may eve... - Sendmail: How To Limit Outgoing Email Recipient Using Sendmail - December 9th, 2008
This sendmail directive implements the number of allowed recipients of each email message. One signature of an email spammer is delivering an email to thousands and hundreds of recipients all at the s... - SEO: How to Check robots.txt file - November 2nd, 2008
The robots.txt analysis tool reads the robots.txt file in the same way Googlebot does. If the tool interprets a line as a syntax error, Googlebot doesn't understand that line. If the tool shows that... - Special: VoIP Security Considerations | ArticlesBase.com - October 27th, 2009
Factors to be considered when deploying VoIP infrastructure across an organization to help eliminate the most common VoIP security threats, such as the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, spa... - SQL: Why did SQL Mail stop working after I upgraded Microsoft Outlook or applied the Outlook security patch? - September 10th, 2008
An Outlook 2000 E-Mail Security Update released in August 2001 prevents the spread of e-mail worms that propagate by sending themselves to everyone in your address book. The security patch detects w... - squid: How to Install and Configure Squid Proxy & DansGuardian Internet Content Filter - April 28th, 2009
This howto guide was created to describe setting up a Squid Proxy/DansGuardian server using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed with the LAMP server option. This guide assumes the user has previous knowledge ... - SVN: How to do Merging with TortoiseSVN - January 14th, 2009
Assuming you have a main "trunk" in your subversion repository, and that you are actually working on a different branch.
You'd need to merge your changes from your branch to the trunk so other team... - Technology: What is RF? - October 18th, 2008
RF refers to radio frequency, the mode of communication for wireless technologies of all kinds, including cordless phones, radar, ham radio, GPS, and radio and television broadcasts. RF technology is ... - Tips: How to Fix Buggy Problematic Firefox Extensions - December 3rd, 2008
When your firefox freezes or crashes repeatedly, or behaves in an expected manner, it could be due to a buggy firefox extension. Mozilla has identified such problematic firefox extensions and creat... - Virtualization: Install and Configure VMWare Server virtualization in openSUSE - August 12th, 2008
VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology.... - VPN: How to install and configure OvenVPN - December 3rd, 2008
There are as many advantages to VPN tunnels as there are different VPN scenarios. One easy implementation is the "OpenVPN via tun-device" solution. An example: you'd like to connect your laptop to you... - Websense: Client Deployment Service fails to deploy CPM Clients to Windows XP -Websense - July 1st, 2009
Installing Windows XP with Service Pack 2 may disable File and Printer Sharing, thereby blocking the deployment of CPM Clients Agents via CPM Deployment Service (CDS).
To resolve the issue, enable... - Windows: How to Import WyseTerm Host List from one user to another in Windows - May 13th, 2009
The WyseTerm Host information, also known as the Common Address Book can be exported from the Windows Registry and then imported onto the new users profile as follows:
1. Click Start - Run - type "...
