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Aug/11Acer Aspire One D255E Mini Review
Overview Our Asus EEE PC 701 SSD failed when I tried to upgrade it from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. I was in the middle of an install when it failed to copy a file and then there after it could … Continue reading
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Aug/11Netstat By Port
netstat -tulpn| grep :80 where 80 is the port number Apache Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 or 443 error and solution
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Aug/11Ubuntu 10.04 dos2unix Tools Missing
To install dos2unix (and unix2dos) tools in Ubuntu: $sudo apt-get install tofrodos The package in Ubuntu does not use the standard dos2unix command and instead are: fromdos – same as dos2unix todos – same as unix2dos This tool seems to … Continue reading
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Jul/11Linux – List Open Ports
Command to list all the ports that are open / listening for incoming traffic: $netstat -a | egrep ‘Proto|LISTEN’
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Jul/11Synergy (Project) Windows To Windows
Overview It’s been a while since I have used a “stable” software which almost made me tear my hair out! As good as the concept of Synergy is the execution could have been better. All credit to the software and … Continue reading
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Jul/11FreePBX Symlink From Modules Failed
Overview I recently upgraded FreePBX from 2.7.1 to 2.8 and from 2.8 to 2.9 the upgrade went OK except for a minor problem where the symbolic link is broken. Whilst this did not cause any problems in terms of the … Continue reading
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Jul/11Ubuntu 10.04 Firewall (UFW) Basics
Overview UFW or Uncomplicated FireWall is a basic software solution for protecting against network intrusions. It’s basic in the form that it’s a wrapper around the more powerful and complex iptables and therefore makes some assumptions such as rate limits. … Continue reading
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Jun/11Apache 2 Hardening Tips
Below are some of the tricks I use or found useful to try to mitigate unwanted attention. Whilst this is not a definitive guide these are simple quick things that can be done. This was written for Ubuntu but it … Continue reading