I was reading technical blogs on other sites and came across an article that was advertising a new search engine in beta. After the whole Cuil disaster, I was curious and wanted to go check it out. SearchMe.com is a search engine that uses flash thumbnails of the site as a preview instead of just [...]
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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Tue09 Sep
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Thu14 Aug
WebGrabber is a command line tool I just made that allows me to give it a url and have it connect to the internet and grab the web page returned. This isn’t fully tested, but the uses for this are fairly open. Basically, I am using this along with scheduled tasks to open a web [...]
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Wed06 Aug
This site is my professional blog (not to be confused with my personal site that I share with my wife). I’m putting this together so I have a place to dump my tech stuff and geeky stuff that I find. My family enjoys the things I do offline, but my online life has really taken [...]
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Tue29 Jul
Adding pre-login and post-login messages for Linux ssh
Written by Brad on 7:55 am | Permalink | Read Comments (0)With a lot of port scanners and people attempting brute forcing, I add basic login messages to my linux servers so I can hopefully deter them from trying to run DDOS attacks against my servers. Not always effectivie, but worth a shot. Plus, if your organization requires legal messages for logins, this is pretty handy [...]
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Tue29 Jul
ESXi 3.5 does ship with the ability to run SSH, but this is disabled by default (and is not supported).
1) At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 to access the console window.
2) Enter unsupported in the console and then press Enter. You will not see the text you type in.
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Thu24 Jul
Minimize Microsoft Outlook 2002/XP To System Tray
Written by Brad on 8:04 am | Permalink | Read Comments (0)I use this tweak a lot and i find it useful since most of the companies I work for still use Outlook 2002/XP.
If you’re an Outlook user - you will know that minimizing Outlook will send it to the Task Bar.
There is a registry entry which can be added, to allow you to minimize Outlook [...] -
Mon23 Jun
Migrating 2000 Domain Controller to 2003 Domain Controller
Written by Brad on 2:26 pm | Permalink | Read Comments (0)These steps are done on the 2003 server!
- Make sure your Sever 2000 Domain controllers are running at least service pack 4.
- Have your 2003 server join your domain but only as a member server
- Do not run dcpromo or install active directory!!!
1. Copy the i386 folder from CD 1 of your Server 2003 CDs [...] -
Mon02 Jun
In red hat this file is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and you would put this in it:
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DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=192.168.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
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Mon02 Jun
To configure a static IP (an IP that will never change) in debian you must edit the file
/etc/networking/interfaces and put the following:CODE
# /etc/network/interfaces — configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
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Wed28 May
To Create an FTP Site
When you install the FTP service, IIS creates a default FTP site. You can use the default FTP site or you can create a new FTP site. To create a new FTP site:
1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. In the console tree, [...]
