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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 accidental termination of a virtual machine in AWS
Amazon provides extensive tools to manage virtual machines hosted on Amazon web services(AWS). It is very easy to…
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Extract MP3 from Youtube
Download audio in mp3 format from Youtube Got your favorite youtube video and yet you don't have it…
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Setup your own Internet music radio station using Shoutcast in Linux
Besides a website, the server running this blog also hosts an Internet Music broadcasting radio. Do you see…
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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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Copy whole directory from command line
How to use ncftpget to copy directories from FTP server. The old ftp command is not convenient for…
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osama bin laden is dead
Killing obama from the command line in linux $whoami bush $rm -rf /bin/laden permission denied $su obama $date…
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Is switching to Linux worth it?
No doubt Microsoft windows is the "most used" operating system in personal computers, including laptops and netbooks. Not…
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Unblocking a host
Is your firewall blocking connection from a host and still you want to unblock the IP address of…
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Block a host
Normally if you want to block all requests to and from an IP address, iptables is an ideal…