111Linux
Extract MP3 from Youtube
Got your favorite youtube video and yet you don't have it in an audio format such as mp3 to play it offline? With open source tools, you can grab that video and conv
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112Linux
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 the "Listen Music" Link on the home page, top right corne
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113Linux
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, and then letting the web server execute those scri
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114Linux
Copy whole directory from command line
The old ftp command is not convenient for recursively copying directories from the command line. An alternative to the ftp command is the ncftpget.
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115Linux
osama bin laden is dead
$whoami bush $rm -rf /bin/laden permission denied $su obama $date 05-01-2011 $pwd /home/pakistan/abbottabad $rm -rf /bin/laden file permanently deleted $echo "We got
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116Linux
Is switching to Linux worth it?
No doubt Microsoft windows is the "most used" operating system in personal computers, including laptops and netbooks. Not "most popular", rather "most used", as popu
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117Linux
Unblocking a host
Is your firewall blocking connection from a host and still you want to unblock the IP address of the remote host? Here is one way of doing it:
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118Linux
Block a host
Normally if you want to block all requests to and from an IP address, iptables is an ideal solution. A rule similar to this one would be handy
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119Linux
Handy commands
-List files opened by a program listening on a certain port (lsof -i:port)
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120Linux
File/Dir Permission change in bulk
First command - changes all directories under the current directory to 700 file mode.
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