Check the OpenDNS webpage for more information of its services. Here, I’ll just explain how to configure your network and switch over to the OpenDNS servers. nano /etc/resolv.conf Use your favorite text editor and open the /etc/resolv.conf file as root and change the nameserver lines to: nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 Now it is needed to [...]
This is just a note to remind myself the process of installing PHP,MySql and PHPMyAdmin on IIS6 and Windows Server 2003. If it is of any use to you, that will be great. There are many ways to run php and mysql stack on windows, if you are from a background of linux, or as [...]
A few years back I wrote a simple tutorial on how to install and configure PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps. Back then things were not as straight forward as they turned out to be when I tried it again today on a different server setup. The following worked like [...]
sda1: Windows Vista encrypted with TrueCrypt sda2: Ubuntu Hardy Heron /boot partition (not encrypted) sda3: Ubuntu Hardy Heron encrypted volume with LVM inside and / and swap partions within LVM (to save partitions used overall incase it gets over 5 partitions) sda4: Working on installing OSX Leopard on this partition currently. The steps I used [...]
When setting up your OpenDNS dashboard, if you are a home user on a Internet provider that gives you a dynamic IP address, you need to tell OpenDNS your IP address has changed or there will not be any relevant stats for your domain. In fact, it may report erroneously that a BotNet or Malware [...]
The previous system administrator left work hurriedly a month ago. Thus, I inherited a Red Hat Linux Enterprise server with little knowledge. There are many others who would be more apt at the task, but they refused the position. Colleagues consider it as something scary, which entails a big responsibility. They might be right at [...]
The beauty of shell scripting in Unix is that there are plenty of commands you can use to get useful output from and reuse it by assigning it to variables. This section of the Unix Commands website contains such commands. Please contact me if you know of yet another extra-useful command to be included. Files [...]
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