November 2011
19 posts
Making a USB pen Bootable →
Might come handy
Is you are impatient regarding Firefox releases... →
when you loose or don't have mouse in windows...
…just press ALT+SHIFT+NUM.LOCK and then use cursor keys to move around the pointer.
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Tor in Pinguyos
For those who enjoy being online with real anonymity, I sincerely advice the use of TOR.
In my case, once I use PinguyOS I started for adding TOR repo to my sources list:
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org natty main
Then the Key for it to work, using the commands: ( please elevate yourself to root before )
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export...
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Add a windows workstation to a domain over VPN
If you have a computer that you want to join a domain and the computer is connected via VPN you need to take the following steps:
1. Connect your site to site VPN. 2. Configure your VPN appliance to use the targeted domains IP as the DNS 3. Join the domain form the computer properties the usual way except, instead of using the pre-2000 domain name ie “Domain”, you need to use the...
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How to change TimeZone in CentOs
Several people asked me this over this years. Well, it’s simple:
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
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Using the du command to find folder sizes
The following command would display all the files and folder as well as their size as a list:
du -sm *
however this is not an ordered list . To order the list we would need to pipe the output of the “du” command to “sort” command giving out list of files and folders sorted in ascending order according to the size:
du -sm * | sort -nr
Still there is a problem this is...
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Deleting files older than x days on Linux
Some times this just comes so handy that can spare you a lot of time. Enjoy
find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Please do note the spaces between rm, {}, and \
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End those endless qmail queus
Sometimes several peopla asks me about erasing qmail’s queue. Ok, here it is the commands you have to type in sequence: qmailctl stop find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm {} \; find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm {} \; find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm {} \; find /var/qmail/queue/intd -type f -exec rm {} \; find /var/qmail/queue/todo -type f -exec rm {} \; find...
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Listen to any conversation in Asterisk (chanspy)
Edit the file /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf and add the following lines at the end of the file: [app-chanspy] include => app-chanspy-custom exten => 556,1,Authenticate(1234) exten => 556,n,Background(beep) exten => 556,n,Read(chan„4) exten => 556,n,ChanSpy(SIP/${chan},q) exten => 556,n,Hangup
then just relaad asterisk ( e.g service asterisk reload )
Now for the...
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Find last changed files in a Linux Box
Some times it might com handy to find last changes files in a linux box. Tey this up
# find . -type f -printf ‘%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n’ | sort
