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
Convert VDI to VMDK – VirtualBox to VMware
Convert VDI to VMDK – VirtualBox to VMware | To convert a VirtualBox vdi image to VMware, use the built-in VirtualBox command line utility VBoxManage. I’ll show you how! 1. First uninstall the VirtualBox Guest Additions from your VM to prepare for portability. 2. Next (if desired) copy the .vdi image file to a temp location as a backup. 3. Now determine the UUID
scottlinux.com visitor stats for 2010-2011
scottlinux.com visitor stats for 2010-2011 | scottlinux.com visitor stats for the year June 2010 – June 2011 Browser: Operating System
How To Dual Boot OS X and Linux
How To Dual Boot OS X and Linux | How to dual boot OS X and Linux. Works on any Intel Mac with any version of Linux! Note: rEFIt does not work with 10.7 Lion yet (step 4). Wait for an rEFIt update before attempting on a 10.7 machine. Warning: This is scary stuff – you can really trash your system and data! I
Disable Debian Banner Suffix on SSH Server
Disable Debian Banner Suffix on SSH Server | While ssh requires broadcasting the exact version number for the protocol of the openssh spec, you can opt to disable broadcasting of the ‘Debian’ suffix that is added by default. By default your server provides something like this to the world: OpenSSH 5.2p1 Debian 7ubuntu3.5 (protocol 2.0) I’ll show you how to change that and
How to Be Anonymous on the Web
How to Be Anonymous on the Web | It is possible to use varying methods for bypassing web filters or just to have anonymity on the web. Note that these do not offer any security! Web site tunnel / proxy Be smart. These services still log information. For instance, Sarah Palin’s yahoo email ‘hacker’ was using ctunnel which handed over info to authorities
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop Review
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop Review | While mainly used as a mission critical server distribution of Linux, Red Hat also offers a Desktop Workstation version. Here is a quick review of the latest Red Hat 6.1 Workstation release! Why run RHEL Workstation for a Desktop Linux choice? If you are a small or large business, you may wish to have uniform
Linux Kernel 3.0
Linux Kernel 3.0 | Linus Torvalds has announced what would have been Linux kernel 2.6.40 is to be renamed Linux 3.0. This is great news as the 2.6.infinity series seemed to never end! Linux 3.0 is not based on any new features, but rather only a version number change. The more recent Linux kernels, in particular 2.6.33 and later
/usr/bin/mint-fortune: line 35: [: ==: unary operator expected
/usr/bin/mint-fortune: line 35: [: ==: unary operator expected | In Linux Mint Debian Edition, a recent update made the fortune script stop working. I’ll show you how to fix it! 1. Open this file with nano, or your favorite editor: sudo nano /usr/bin/mint-fortune 2. Locate line 35 which looks like this: if [ $showfortunes == "true" ]; then (Tip: in nano, press Control+C to
Prevent Hotlinking with htaccess
Prevent Hotlinking with htaccess | Hotlinking is the use of another person’s hosted image embedded on a different site without permission. I’ll show you how to prevent hotlinking with htaccess! Place the following in an .htaccess file on your web server to prevent hotlinking of images but however allow google, bing, and yahoo image searches access. Change the first entry