What is Axel? When you want to download something from the command line you normally use the commands wget or curl. What if you want to accelerate these downloads? I recently found this command: Axel, works the same way but…
Joe Dougherty from SecureDragon.net (great guy running a great company) sent me a tip about this thread over at Lowendtalk.com and asked if I could write something about this “weird trick”. Actually it’s not a wierd trick, it’s a built in security…
Like every VPS addict it is quite normal to forget which version of an operating system you are running especially if it is a server that you haven’t logged onto for a long time. In other cases, you may simply be…
Introduction Nginx comes with a nifty module that allows us to allow or deny access to directories served by the webserver. The module is named ngx_http_access_module to allow or deny access to IP address. The syntax can look as follows:…
Introduction With the latest Java updates the security settings has been set at a higher level by default and there are many websites that now experience problems with some older Java applets that no longer works. This is a common…
I’ve written guides on how to backup to both Dropbox.com and Box.com and now got the request via Twitter to write how to do the same thing with copy.com. Since I didn’t have a copy.com account I had to create…
3rd place in the Teach something, Win something contest goes to Mark Mearns for his SQUID installation script. Mark took 3rd place because of the simplicity he created with this script which will make a great addition in the script…
It is time to write a guide for Windows users on how to tunnel your traffic without the need to install any software on your local computer. Say that you are stuck behind a firewall that filters your traffic or…
A popular question when troubleshooting database issues is what version of mySQL is installed and used? You can find this information by running a simple command on the mySQL server. Connect to your MySQL engine with your favorite client, why…
Guess I’m not the only one who have a lot of unauthorized login attempts via SSH on my Linux servers. With a simple command, you can watch failed or successful login attempts in /var/log/auth.log. #As root or via sudo, type…
