Tips, Tricks and Information for the Modern Technologist

Category: Programs


Printing to a shared printer from DOS

If you or your client is using an old-DOS based program to do work (for example, Wordperfect for DOS) – and you need to print to a printer which is shared on the network, you first need to map the printer to an LPT port. You do this by using the following command in a [...]


Block brute force password attempts via SSH

If you are a system administrator of a linux system, you may find the following log entries familiar: 12345Sep 15 02:00:30 sol sshd[16364]: Failed password for invalid user test from ::ffff: 61.167.x.x port 53382 ssh2 Sep 15 02:00:30 sol sshd[16365]: Failed password for invalid user test from ::ffff: 61.167.x.x port 53394 ssh2 Sep 15 02:00:30 [...]


Foxit PDF Reader 2.0

Posted 16th September in Programs, System Administration, Windows. Comments Off

Don’t you hate it when your browser locks up because you unknowlingly clicked on a PDF File? Let’s face it – Adobe’s PDF Format rocks but the reader takes way to long to load and also locks your PC up. Foxit Software just released Foxit PDF Reader 2.0. If you haven’t tried it already, you [...]