Pixxa VPS Hosting Review | Pixxa is a new and hip VPS provider offering Linux and Windows VPS hosting. I recently was given the opportunity to check Pixxa out and was quite impressed. The scottlinux review is below! Like Slicehost, Linode, GoGrid and others, Pixxa provides click to deploy VPS images with an excellent web interface. Highlights of Pixxa include:
How to Compile your own Kernel in Ubuntu / Debian / Mint
How to Compile your own Kernel in Ubuntu / Debian / Mint | While most persons typically use the Ubuntu kernel-ppa for obtaining alternate or new kernels, you can also roll your own for a specialized VM, an embedded system, or just to geek out. This method is a Debian sort of method in that at the very end you are left with .deb packages you can easily
Public IPv6 DNS Servers
Public IPv6 DNS Servers | While your local ISP may not yet have IPv6 DNS servers available, there are several free alternatives for use right now. OpenDNS – IPv6 2620:0:ccc::2 2620:0:ccd::2 he.net $ host ordns.he.net ordns.he.net has address 74.82.42.42 ordns.he.net has IPv6 address 2001:470:20::2 Google’s Public DNS: $ host google-public-dns-a.google.com. google-public-dns-a.google.com has address 8.8.8.8 google-public-dns-a.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:4860::8888 See
DNS How-To for Google Apps Users
DNS How-To for Google Apps Users | Google Apps of course is awesome email, docs, calender and such for organizations or individuals. To further take advantage of Google Apps for your organization, it is possible to input additional DNS records. In doing this, mail.yourdomain.com goes to your google apps mail, as well as others: calendar.yourdomain.com – your google apps calendar docs.yourdomain.com
Securely Wipe Hard Drive in Linux
Securely Wipe Hard Drive in Linux | To wipe a hard disk down to zeros, use the dd command. $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M Where /dev/sdX is the drive you want to zero out. Be extremely careful – there is no undo! For example, this zeros out the specific disk “/dev/sdf” on my system: stmiller@brahms:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=1M This
scottlinux.com RSS feed url update
scottlinux.com RSS feed url update | The RSS url for scottlinux.com has been updated to simply: http://scottlinux.com/feed The previous somewhat weird url ‘http://scottlinux.com/?feed=rss2′ now redirects to the above correct one. However, you may have to update your RSS readers. Apologies and safe hacking,
Apache Block By User Agent
Apache Block By User Agent | Though this is trivial to circumvent, an easy way to block by User Agent with Apache is to use mod_rewrite. This is rather more useful to deny spam bots, scammers, and other automated tools from poking at your website! The following rewrite rule gives a 403 Forbidden for example: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTrack RewriteRule
Test Your Server for MySQL Injection
Test Your Server for MySQL Injection | Q: What tools are used for testing for MySQL and other database injection vulnerabilities? The following are often used to automate testing for SQL injections by network and security admins: sqlmap – automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool Havij – automated SQL injection tool metasploit – security framework (Metasploit as you may be aware
Upgrade Red Hat / CentOS 5 Password Hashing
Upgrade Red Hat / CentOS 5 Password Hashing | By default, Red Hat / CentOS 5 uses the largely less desirable md5 algorithm for local account password hashing. Bah! Debian / Ubuntu : you are already using SHA-512 – yay! Be sure to mock your fellow Red Hat friends on this topic. (Note: the new Red Hat / CentOS 6 is now SHA-512 by
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