Domain hack search utility.

df command in Linux provides disk space usage information of your file systems. Even if you already know about this command, probably one of the examples mentioned below might be new to you.

Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs'R'Us, Newzbin, Womble's Index, NZB.su, TVTorrents and EZRSS and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com.

Have you ever worked on a project that was so unwieldy, you were scared to update a file or add a feature? Maybe the problem was that you weren’t using a version control system. In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn the basics of what might possibly be the best VCS in the world: Git.

A very good use of our tax dollars and worth the attention of sysadmins.
I often say that most successful attacks and vulnerabilities are failures of imagination (when they aren't outright laziness/penny pinching). The authors of these documents have seen a lot of attacks and know something about how things should be configured to give your servers a fighting chance. These guides and checklists are great to look over for inspiration and ideas on how to better lock down your systems. Look over each item and think to yourself: "What on earth happened such that they had to put this on a security checklist?"

Traditionally, tools such as 'Startup Disk Creator' or 'UNetbootin' were needed to install Linux Mint via USB.

With hybrid images, you can simply write the content of the ISO and make a bootable USB stick which can install Linux Mint by using the 'dd' command.

Turns out Microsoft hid it from us, sort of... What you do is go to Network and Sharing Center and click on the change adapter settings link. From there, if you have the Desktop Experience installed, you might not have the menu bar running across the top. You need to hit the Alt button on your keyboard in order to get the menu bar to show up. From the Advanced menu option, click Advanced Settings.

Nmap is the definitive port scanner. If you have any need for this sort of tool it would behoove you to become familiar with at least the basics of this most excellent application.
This guide is by no means comprehensive -- it's nothing more than a short walkthrough of how I have come to use some of the various options. For a thorough look at Nmap's capabilities, I suggest you also consult the man page.

A typical email scenario: you're a developer, and you've got a development Linux box at home. You need to be able to send emails from your code or cron jobs, but you're too lazy to set up a full fledged email server on your LAN. Or you just want to use an email account provided by Google Apps, Yahoo, or your ISP.

The only three true job interview questions are:
1.  Can you do the job?
2.  Will you love the job?
3.  Can we tolerate working with you?

That’s it.  Those three.  Think back, every question you’ve ever posed to others or had asked of you in a job interview is a subset of a deeper in-depth follow-up to one of these three key questions.  Each question potentially may be asked using different words, but every question, however it is phrased, is just a variation on one of these topics: Strengths, Motivation, and Fit.

This guide will assist you with enabling SSL for websites served under the Apache web server. It is assumed that you've completed the steps detailed in our getting started guide, and that you've successfully set up Apache for serving virtual hosts as outlined in our Apache 2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid) guide. These steps should be performed via an SSH session to your Linode as the root user.

Recently I’ve been asked quite a bit how to use Evernote with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. It’s a great combination and quite easy. Here’s a video that runs you through the processs. The video shows the Mac version, but Windows will be the same concept.

I’ve noticed a resurgence on the web of people talking about OmniFocus and how they use the app to manage their task lists. Despite being a user for nearly three years — since the first public beta — for some reason I’ve never gotten around to writing about why I find it so useful and how it fits into my own workflow. So that’s what this post will attempt to do.

ownCloud in a box packages ownCloud as an appliance, so you can easily run it in a virtual environment, as a live system or install it on a disk.

ESXi uses the notion of firmware. An update replaces the previous version of the "firmware". You only need to install the latest.

I've seen a few articles recently on sites like HackerNews which claimed to cover some advanced SSH techniques/tricks. They were good articles, but for me (as a systems administrator) didn't get into the really powerful guts of OpenSSH.
So, I figured that I ought to pony up and write about some of the more advanced tricks that I have either used or seen others use. These will most likely be relevant to people who manage tens/hundreds of servers via SSH. Some of them are about actual configuration options for OpenSSH, others are recommendations for ways of working with OpenSSH.

When you try to access a network path (FQDN) by “start”-“run”-”machine_nameshare_name”, and meet error message “No network provider accepted the given network path.” But when you open the Command Console (“start“-“run“-“cmd“), you can ping that machine successfully by using the FQDN.

If you meet this situation, run “sfc /scannow” may be able to solve the problem. If this method shouldn't work, you may also try this tip:

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBR/tip8500/rh8517.htm

One of them will resolve the problem and enable you to access a shared location successfully by “start”-”run”-”machine_nameshare_name”.

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'Tis the season for warming beers—for velvety barrel-aged stouts and serious brews from Belgium. Over the last few weeks, we've also been sampling winter warmers and other winter seasonals: beers released specifically for Christmas and for sipping over the cold months ahead.

​Christmas is everyone's favorite holiday, but true beer fans know that the most wonderful time of the year is made even more wonderful with a pint in your hand. Winter warmers and other dark, comforting brews take over around the holidays to help carolers and Christmas tree shoppers thaw out after a chilly night. If you can only open one present on Christmas morning, make it one of these beers: the ten best you'll find this season.

With the current generation of consoles, online play has become ubiquitous, leaving us with systems that are constantly connected to the Internet. This has led to many great things, like the advent of downloadable games, online multiplayer, and quick and easy game updates. But it's not without its drawbacks. 

Other than a painstaking, manual process of going through my download history and re-downloading 593 entries one by one -- is there any way to issue a "download all" command, either from xbox.com or from the console itself?

When we launched the web marketplace in last November, we introduced the ability for Xbox LIVE members to browse Marketplace through Xbox.com and easily add game and video content to your Xbox 360 download queue. That meant when you turned on your Xbox 360 console, and signed into LIVE, you would immediately start downloading items you added from the web Marketplace. If you own more than one console, or travel with your Xbox LIVE profile on an MU or HDD, it’s possible that your downloads don’t start immediately upon sighing in to LIVE, and that has left you puzzled.

I recently had occasion to do some…errr…research on writer’s block. Yeah, research. That’s what I was doing. Like a scientist.
I found lots of great ideas to get unstuck and wrote the best ones on index cards to create an Oblique Strategies-like deck. Swipe, share, and add you own in comments.

Over the last few years I’ve developed a few techniques that help me deal with writer’s block (or blogger’s block) that really work well.

Yesterday I posted about self-publishing services like CafePress and iUniverse which will print, sell and ship copies of your book for a price without the middleman of an established publisher. Happily, several readers wrote in with notes and suggestions about DIY publishing.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

THAT'S RIGHT. I know it sounds like an ad for some sleazy writers' school, but I really am going to tell you everything you need to pursue a successful and financially rewarding career writing fiction, and I really am going to do it in ten minutes, which is exactly how long it took me to learn. It will actually take you twenty minutes or so to read this essay, however, because I have to tell you a story, and then I have to write a second introduction. But these, I argue, should not count in the ten minutes.

Here's a video of my presentation, "Toward Patterns for Creativity," from earlier this month at Macworld, here in SF.

If you are a writer, you’ve probably wished that you could write faster, better, and easier. I have too. I’ve been writing for many years now and I’ve found some tricks that help. They just may help you too! Everyone has their own system, but sometimes learning about another person’s system can flip a switch that enables you to improve your writing.

I used to have a lot of bad habits. I still do, but I used to have a lot more.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

How can you think of things that no-one else thinks of? The answer is by deliberately taking a different approach to the issue from everyone else. There are dominant ideas in every field. The brilliant thinker purposefully challenges those dominant ideas in order to think innovatively.

Eight rules for writing fiction:

Stop talking about your novel or short story ideas and start writing.

This article describes how to configure the FastCGI module and PHP to host PHP applications on IIS 7.

SSH is a protocol for authenticating and encrypting remote shell sessions.

But, using SSH for just remote shell sessions ignores 90% of what it can do.

If you get this error when attempting to create a scheduled task, check to make sure that your “Local Security Policy”  (under Security Settings – Local Policies – Security Options), “Network access: Do not allow storage of credentials or .NET Passports for network authentication” is Disabled.

Installing a patch with vihostupdate.pl

The command vihostupdate allows you to extract patch files and to install them on your host.

The pricing and licensing model for vSphere is broken into two categories known as vSphere kits and vSphere editions. vSphere kits are all-in-one offerings that delivery all the necessary licenses and features/functionality required to getting virtualization running in an environment. Kits have defined limits depending on the type of kit purchased. vSphere editions are a la carte offerings generally designed for larger IT environments with a broader set of requirements. These offerings have broader entitlements as well. Please see each section below for specific details.

Using NAT between the vCenter Server system and ESX hosts is an unsupported configuration.
 
As a workaround, you can specify for each ESX host a reachable address that the host can use to communicate back to vCenter Server. In this case, the reachable address is the NAT address, which you configure to redirect the communication back to vCenter Server.

This article provides quick reference to the information needed for a trouble free installation of vSphere ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0.