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Hashcat-gui: Save Charset Groups As Jobs To Crack Future Hashes

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Recently I have started using Hashcat-gui a lot more to test the strength of various passwords for certain clients. One of the things I wasn’t sure of at first was how to save charsets in the Bruteforce Settings window and while it would be nice if you could have a text file that included various charsets you could select from the drop down menu it is also easy to save your preferred charsets as Hashcat Jobs. Below is information on how to save charsets as Hashcat Jobs as well as recommended charsets you might want to save.

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503 Service Unavailable Error After Switching Litespeed Rails Site From Production Mode To Staging Mode

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Earlier I switched one of the Litespeed web server virtual hosts from production mode to staging mode and after gracefully restarting rails was receiving a 503 Service Unavailable error. Initially I thought that maybe Litespeed had to be restarted completely instead of just a graceful restart but that produced the same results. Below I describe the errors including errors in the Litespeed logs as well as how to resolve the issue which ended up being a silly mistake on my part.

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Windows Tool: Applications Running In 64-Bit 0r 32-Bit Mode, Services x86 or x86_64

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I recently purchased a new Dell laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit which is the first 64-Bit computer I have ever had as my main computer. I have done some work in the past on computers using 64-Bit operating systems but now that I have one there are a lot of questions coming up regarding how applications launch and specifically what mode they are running in. On Windows 7 64-Bit there are two different “Program Files” directories which allow 64-Bit applications to run as well as 32-Bit applications to run. Below I explain how to verify if a Windows service is running in 32-Bit (x86) mode or 64-Bit (x86_64) mode.

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Start a Ruby On Rails Project In Development Mode With Apache And Mongrel

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A friend of mine was over tonight and we were troubleshooting a issue with SVN authentication via the Redmine project management software. Redmine is built with Ruby and on this server is running via Apache and Mongrel. I needed to set the project to run in development mode but wasn’t very familiar with the Mongrel setup. After some research I found it was easy to change the environment from production to development using the Mongrel Cluster .yml file for that project. When using Mongrel each site appears to get its own .yml file so you can modify whatever settings you want to on a per site basis. Below I describe what needs to be changed, default locations, and any other actions that need to be taken to restart the Ruby on Rails project in development mode.

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How to Start Ruby on Rails in Development Mode with LiteSpeed Web Server

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Starting ruby on rails in development mode with Litespeed is easy. You need to make sure that your database.yml is configured to handle development mode as well. Follow the steps below to start Litespeed running Ruby on Rails in development mode.

Please note both cofiguration settings listed in step one which include setting this to be the default for future virtual hosts and configuring current virtual hosts to restart in development mode.