Today VMware crashed on me, and upon reboot VMware-tools wasn’t installed on the guest. Every time I would try to do the re-install I would get the following error: “Could not find conponent on update server. Contact VMware support or [...]
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iPhone iOS 5 Beta 7 Expired and need a backup?
Did your iPhone lock tonight with the expiration of iOS 5 Beta 7? Yup, so did mine! Need to back it up? I have a solution for you that I just found: Diskaid.
Restrict SSH access by country IP via hosts.allow and hosts.deny
Do you want to have SSH and/or SFTP available on your Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, etc.) server and tired of seeing malicious IP’s from other countries trying to brute force into your server? I have an easy and quick [...]
Mingetty and it’s out of control CPU usage
In my recent experience with virtually hosted web servers, I ran into a problem where mingetty was taking a large amount of CPU usage. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Thanks to this post, I have finally figured [...]
Zip a folder in linux
It’s fairly easy, let’s go over it. According to man zip, the following options are available: [-AcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz@$] The ones we are interested in are: -R and -#. -R denotes recursion, and -#, where # stands for a number gives us [...]
.htaccess: order not allowed here
A common error people get when attempting to add limits (Such as IP banning) to .htaccess is: “.htaccess: order not allowed here” You’ll see Apache 500 errors, and you’ll see that in your Apache log. This recently happened to me, [...]