Got hard drive failure? Put it on ice!
Currently as I write this, my WD 750GB is sitting in the freezer, and waiting for another round of quick copying (frozen recovery? eh..)
Category: SysAdmin
Adding a non-standard WIFI card into an IBM T61 laptop
If you’ve the owner of a Lenovo IBM T61 7XXX model, and ever tried upgrading the internal mini pci-e card to something like 802.11BGN (N) you will find yourself running into an error that says: Well this error is because IBM added a whitelist to its BIOS, which basically means…
Putty strange ‘Access Denied’ following username entry
I don’t know about you, but I kept getting this since upgrading putty to 0.61, as 0.60 didn’t do so before. It would be an error of ‘Access Denied’ right after username entry, and all else would proceed as planned. Well I searched about it a bit and found the…
Windows 7 Icons not showing up or broken issue
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…
Great reference for learning BASH
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/ –…
Hardening your Ubuntu 9.10 Server – Firewall
These are the steps that I tried to follow to harden my server from intrusion, at least at the SSH level.
WGET only if file is modified
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…