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DenyHosts: Remove / Delete an IP address
How do I remove my own home IP address from DenyHosts?Simply removing your IP from /etc/hosts.deny does not work since DenyHosts keeps track of the attempts in the /usr/share/denyhosts/data directory. In order to remove your IP address you will need to do the following. Step # 1: Stop DenyHosts # /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop Step # 2: Remove Your IP […]
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List Of Stand Alone CDNs and Telcos/Carriers Offering CDN Services
The CDN space is growing tremendously, both in overall revenue and competition. According to, “Video CDN Revenue Will Grow to Over $1.4 Billion by 2012:” The preliminary data shows that the worldwide video CDN revenue will be a little more than $400 million in 2008, increasing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate [CAGR] of more than 30%. As […]
Uninstall the Annoying Windows Language Bar from the Windows Command Line
The lanuage bar can be uninstalled / removed / deleted / disabled completely by running the following command: regsvr32.exe /u /s msutb.dll
Top 50 Text Terms Used in Business
AFAIC As Far As I’m Concerned ASAP As Soon As Possible BHAG Big Hairy Audacious Goal BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again CLM Career Limiting Move CYA Cover Your Ass -or- See Ya DD Due Diligence DQYDJ Don’t Quit Your Day Job DRIB Don’t Read If Busy EOD End Of Day -or- End Of Discussion EOM End […]
View EC2 Instances via Command Line Using ec2-describe-instances
Running ec2-describe-instances from the command line where you have AWS developer tools installed will display information about running instances. Example:To view instances simply run ec2-describe-instances To view detailed help information run ec2-describe-instances –help SYNOPSIS ec2din (ec2-describe-instances) ec2din [GENERAL OPTIONS] [INSTANCE [INSTANCE […]]] GENERAL NOTES Any command option/parameter may be passed a value of ‘-‘ to indicate that values […]
Linux: Force Users To Change Their Passwords Upon First Login
How can I force my Linux users to change their passwords upon the first login under CentOS / Debian Linux? You can use any one of the following command to change user passwords upon the first login: usermod command – Modify various user account properties including user password expiry information. Where, chage command – Change user password expiry […]
Ntbackup command line parameters in Windows Server 2003
You can perform backup operations from the command prompt or from a batch file by using the ntbackup backup command followed by various parameters. You can access only the backup option from the command prompt. To restore files, use the Backup and Restore Wizard. The ntbackup command uses the following syntax (see explanation of parameters below): ntbackup backup […]
Keeping Backtrack up-to-date
Updating & Upgrading Backtrack /usr/bin/apt-get -y update/usr/bin/apt-get -y upgrade To download and install all new updates, run apt-get dist-upgrade The first time you run the apt-get update, you may get an error “GPG error : http://ppa.launchpad.net intrpid Release: The following signatures couln’t be verified because the public key…” Quick fix : wget http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/public.gpgsudo apt-key add public.gpgrm public.gpg Run […]