- Published:
- May 29, 2008 – 9:46 am
- Author:
- By Dave
The AskApache blog has a great comprehensive guide to .htaccess. A must read for anyone who does a lot of work with Apache. http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html
Categories: Code Samples,Configurations,Linux,System Administration
Tagged: apache, htaccess, web server
- Published:
- May 27, 2008 – 11:55 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
There is a Zero-day Adobe flash exploit being actively distributed in the wild using SQL injection attacks onto many websites (Securityfocus thinks about 20,000 or more). Reported to be a password sniffer. Yet another reason to run the excellent Firefox addon NoScript. Sources: 1, 2
Categories: Site Updates
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- May 27, 2008 – 4:47 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Updated on 8/26/2008 with corrected information! Window’s simple shutdown command works well, but has some major drawbacks. The major one is that it will only schedule a reboot up to 10 minutes into the future (600 seconds). Linux’s shutdown command makes this easy, just issue the command ‘shutdown -r +60′ for example to reboot an hour in the future. No such luck in Windows, you need to download a separate program to do this. It is a sysinternals program, you might remember sysinternals from such utilies like FileMon and ProcessMonitor. The program we use for this is called PsTools and more specifically the file psshutdown.exe. [Download PsTools here] Place psshutdown.exe into a directory for future use, for this example we will use c:\tools\. Easiest Method: Type the following command into the command prompt: 1c:\tools\psshutdown.exe -r -f -c -t 02:00 /accepteula PSshutdown will respond with: 12345PsShutdown v2.52 – Shutdown, logoff and….
Categories: Programs,Shell,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: sysadmin, tricks, Windows
- Published:
- May 8, 2008 – 9:09 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
For some reason, Firefox started to display a blinking cursor, like web pages I have been viewing were editable. Thinking that some errant plugin was causing this behavior, I manically disabled a few I had recently installed. However that didn’t fix the problem. Good ole Google to the rescue. Firefox has a ‘feature’ that lets you select text with more visual feedback. I guess the little one must have been hitting keys and turned this on. Turning it off is easy! Press F7 to turn off caret browsing. Alternatively, type “about:config” in the URL area, then filter for “caret“. Change accessibility.browsewithcaret to “false”.
Categories: Configurations,Programs
Tagged: caret, configuration, firefox, tips