tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40216772633081175032011-11-27T19:55:42.596-05:00My little brain dump of neat things I find...so I can freaking find them again!Vadakillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04180031083692655887noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4021677263308117503.post-65456373117926096102011-04-15T10:15:00.004-04:002011-04-15T10:18:06.672-04:00

If you replace your NIC and need it to become the "new eth0" edit the following file:sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rulesChange the name of the MAC address you want to become the new eth0.

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Reposted from: http://randyfay.com/node/63, too many times I've linked to something only to have it disappear.I had this problem with our internal KB system, it doesn't support php 5.3 and the developer isn't supporting our version any longer so he won't upgrade it, whatever.Copy this text and put it in "/etc/apt/sources.list.d" as "karmic_0.list:# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ -

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This will delete all media and mods from the device and return it to factory defaults.Turn off DeviceSlide the HOLD switch to the hold position (Red visible)Hold down the Record button on the side of the device then press the power buttonIt will say "Recovery Mode, Attache USB cable"Attach the USB cableWhen Windows creates a drive letter, open itRight click in the window, select NEW >> Text

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Currently installing FDE using TrueCrypt is not possible on Windows 7 without doing some trickery before you install the OS on your drive.Start the installation like normalMake sure you customize your install, don't just let it do everything for you.When it gets to the part where you choose your disk, click the "advanced" disk setup.Delete all your partitions.Click "New...", choose the maximum

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Create a Microsoft Loopback adapter:Add New HardwareYes, I have already connected the hardwareAdd New HardwareInstall the hardware that I manually Select from a list (Advanced)Network AdaptersMicrosoft | Microsoft Loopback AdapterConfigure your new Loopback adapter:Right Click => PropertiesMake sure "Client for Microsoft Windows" is checkedUncheck "File and printer sharing"Click TCP/IP =>

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Yes I installed Windows 7 and for the most part I really like it. The only problems I've been having are the occasional issue with installing some applications that do a OS version check before allowing the install to go through.One such application is "Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0" which I bought for my Windows XP system that I just blew away in favor of Windows 7. Installing it proved to be a

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I've never ranted on a blog before but today I've just had enough. First off let's start with GameStop.I went to the Gamestop here in Newington, CT and asked for Space Siege. The sales guy behind the counter told me that they were sold out. I said, Wow, must be a great game. He said they only got one copy, *ONE COPY*. Now Newington is not a small city and it's right outside Hartford, CT and

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This is a useful thing to know if you want to bring up a network interface without using DHCP or assigning it an IP address. This would mostly be used for things like a SNORT server where one interface is just listening in promisc mode and doing nothing else. I'm using Ubuntu Server 7.10 for this, it may be different for other distributions:Add this to your /etc/network/interfaces file:iface

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With the machine off plug your target hard drive into a second channel on your computer.Boot the machine, when you see the grub start menu hit ESCChoose "Recovery Mode"When it prompts, enter your root passwordIf you have IDE hard drives your drives will be /dev/hda for the source drive and /dev/hdb for the target. If they are SATA then they will be /dev/sda and /dev/sdbType fdisk /dev/sdaType "p

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This is a WIP, draft quality now:If you plan on having more then 8 Loop devices (loop0 - loop7) you need to set an option in "/etc/modprobe.d/options" called "option loop max_loop=255", or whatever number you need, then reboot the system.Copy the CD/DVD Images to a folder on your Ubuntu system hard diskMount the image with the following command:Syntax: mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/image.iso

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I don't know anyone who has covered this topic on how to update your zune to the latest firmware. It's very simple, go to zune.net and get the new software front end. Once you have installed that over your old front end, plug in your first get Zune. It will automatically detect that you need to update your firmware. Once you tell it to begin, the process takes approx 8-10 minutes. That's it!

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Install necessary packages:apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2Download the kernel sources from www.kernel.orgExtract themln -s linux-kernel-version linuxchange directory into "linux"Copy the current kernel's config:cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.configStart the GUI kernel configurationmake menuconfigSave the configStart the compilemake-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg -

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Very useful if you want to match something for a particular range of IPs:http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55572

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Recently I was doing a site survey of all active IPs on our network. I used nmap for this function and dumped all responding IP addresses to a text file. I don't have to worry about PC's not responding to the ping due to a personal firewall since our PC's here do not have one turned on; they are all protected by our corporate firewall. To find all responding IP's I ran the following command

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I've searched high and low and there does not seem to be any way to enable Windows File and Printer Sharing without having someone actually perform the function of clicking the stupid check box. Yes, I've gone through the registry and even did the ol' regmon trick to see what windows was modifying, nothing was obvious. Recently this problem has cropped up again causing me to renew my search for

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Sometimes you just want to have the system check itself nextime the system reboots, to do that:As root type:touch /forcefsckOn the next reboot the filesystem will see the empty file called "forcefsck" in the root partition, this will trigger a full scale disk check.

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If you use Linux and rely on it every day there will be a day that comes where you will utterly screw yourself. What I mean is you can get a shell but nothing else works...and you're 1000 miles away. So how do you unscrew yourself?echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrqecho b > /proc/sysrq-triggerThis sends a kernel message to reboot the machine. Now this is a horrible, horrible way to reboot, it's

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With the release of Team Fortress 2 on steam I was eager to get back into first person shooters and besides I've always enjoyed Team Fortress Classic. In any case I went to use the in game voice chat with steam and ended up annoying the hell out of my team mates when my microphone spewed out static and looped back sounds from the game. This is what I did to fix it:Downloaded the reference

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Ever have one PC on your home windows network that you just can seem to access the shares? Well here's some things to check:Make sure the Windows Firewall is offOn the Exceptions Tab of the Window Firewall, make sure "File and Printer Sharing" has a check.Disable UPnP. This is found in Add/Remove Programs >> Add/Remove Windows Components >> Networking ServicesIn the registry: "HKey_Local

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In my previous article "Punch through your corporate firewall..." I showed you how to leverage a server on the internet to forward your web traffic. I've found another way to tunnel your HTTP traffic using a cheap router and a firmware upgrade called DD-WRT. If you are interested you can check out their site and see if your router is supported by their firmware.In any case this is what you have

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If you execute a command but it's taking a very long time to complete you'll be stuck waiting at an unresponsive command prompt.To wrest control back you can do the following:Press CTRL+Z to stop the job and get your command prompt back, thentype "bg" then enter to run the job in the backgroundTo see the list of jobs you've backgrounded type: "jobs" then hit enterTo bring one of the listed jobs

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If you've moved your hard disk to a new machine or swapped out the Ethernet cards you'll find that your interfaces are no longer named what you expect. Instead you will find that your eth0 no longer shows up and that you now have an eth1, eth2, eth3 and so on. To fix this you need to do a few little things:First thing is to make sure that Ubuntu "sees" your ethernet adapters by listing PCI

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Enable root account in Ubuntu:$ sudo passwd root...then set a new passwordDisable the root account in Ubuntu:$ sudo passwd -l root...which removes and locks the root account.Manually set the eth0 IP, netmask and Gateway:$ sudo ifconfig eth0 IPADDRESS netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast BROADCASTIP$ sudo route add default gw DEFAULTGATEWAYIPTo make changes permanent edit /etc/network/interfaces or put

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I'm a network security administrator and this job requires that lock things down to a point where I can't even do my own job (damn I'm good, and yes I do know about exclusions). The idea is to be able to "backdoor" the network policies and protections to do your job, the purpose is not to "surf anywhere you want on the net without getting caught". Network policies are there for a reason, to

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As the user you want to make the change for type:# update-alternatives --config editorA small text based dialog will open, choose the appropriate editor and that's it!Source: http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-change-default-editor-in-debian-etch.html

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Click Start >> Run...Paste this line into the Run... box:RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.RemoveNow that annoying MSN messenger program is gone!

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Open My ComputerRight-Click on Nero ScoutUncheck "Enable Nero Scout"Save ChangesClick Start >> Run...Paste this line, (this is one line):regsvr32 /u "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Ahead\Lib\MediaLibraryNSE.dll"Then reboot.

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