If you have one of the larger builds of dd-wrt then you probably have PPTP support built into the firmware. This will allow you to move VPN connections to the router instead of having to connect from each desktop which will securely make the remote network seem like part of the local network.
Have you ever downloaded a torrent only to find that it is a .daa file and not a .iso file? Even though .iso file format has become a industry standard there are still some people that insist on using the .daa format.
If you are a Linux geek like me you probably have a text file in your home directory with all your favorite command line ‘fu tricks. I thought I would share some of the ones I have collected over the years which can come in useful for remote servers where the only access you have…
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One of the shortcomings of Linux used to be a failure to properly support high end graphics cards. This is no longer the case with Nvidia, ATI on the other hand still has a way to go. A question I see asked a lot is how to I overclock my Nvidia card if I am…
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If you use pastebin as much as I do then you will think this tool is as cool as I do. Pastebin is a online site which allows users to copy and paste snippets of code in order for share them with other people and get feed back.
One of the not so well know networking tools available on Linux is MTR. MTR combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single net-work diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of…
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The Conficker worm was first detected around November of 2008. Although Microsoft has long since released a patch for this vulnerability entitled MS-0687 there are still a astounding amount of computers that are getting infected with Conficker due to the MS-0687 vulnerability.
If you are in process of downgrading your iPhone or iPod Touch you will more than likely be downloading the older firmware directly from apple.com. When you download this firmware it is provided as a zip file with a .zip file ending such as iPhone2,1_3.1_7C144_Restore.zip. If you unpack this file it will include a couple…
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A friend contacted me the other day because he was having an issue starting his development environment which consists of Ruby, PostgreSQL, and Mongrel. Ruby communicates with PostgreSQL using the postgres-pr gem version 0.6.1. Starting things using “ruby script/server” from within his Ruby project had been working for months without issue and there had been…
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