I got a strange bug the other day, where my Windows 7 icons would disappear, simply reverting to blank icons, even tho right clicking on the icon > properties, resulted in an image of the programs icon. So I did a quick search and found a valid solution… to delete your icon cache.  I was [...]

As my buddy Mike has been writing great BASH scripts, I’m trying to get some more Linux experience, so I have been doing some research into BASH programming on the linux command line. I will add more references here as I find them useful: http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programming/Bash_Programming_Cheat_Sheet.html – Bash Cheatsheet http://www.mindpicnic.com/tag/bash/ – Learn Bash

These are the steps that I tried to follow to harden my server from intrusion, at least at the SSH level.

This is a tiny little tip, and probably any linux guru worth his/her salt knows this, but I just discovered the wget usage to check the time-stamp / last-modified header prior to downloading a file.  Which is pretty cool if you’ve ever setup any shell scripts that fetch/sync something. I have written some apps in [...]

Its funny, I spent so much time trying to find a solution for this and accidentally my friend Nick emailed me about it. I don’t know how I didn’t find this earlier. Anyways, the problem stemmed from being unable to connect remotely (RDC) to one of my server2k3 boxes. I needed to modify the software [...]