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Decoding firefox cookies – sqlite cookies viewer
Web sites store information on local machines of site visitors using cookies. On subsequent visits, the browser sends…
Shell script: US federal holidays
This script is written based on the list of U.S. federal holidays I found in Wikipedia - Wikipedia…
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strace – tracing syscall by example
The strace command allows us to trace the system calls made by a program. In this blog, I…
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Could not chdir to home directory: Permission denied
Problem: every time a user logs in, they get "Could not chdir to home directory....Permission denied" error, although…
How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a third folder?
This is my first attempt in response to a question posed in one of StackExchange sites for Unix/Linux…
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Extract bookmarks or favorites from your Firefox browser
Getting the URLs in your favorites or bookmarks as a plain list. I have tons of pages that…
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Script to download youtube videos as mp3
In order to use this script, you need to do certain things in advance - 1. Download youtube-dl,…
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Modifying user-agent in curl or wget
Recently I was trying to download numerous files from a certain website using a shell script I wrote.…
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Prevent script execution in specific web directories
Most web based attacks tend to occur by uploading malicious scripts into world writable directories such as cache,…
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Setup BigBlueButton(BBB) on Ubuntu 10.04 with Asterisk and BBB wordpress plugin
Requirements Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit or 64-bit server 2 GB of memory 5G of free disk space Install BBB…