I needed to add a new port forward to a router, but I did not have access to the web interface through a graphical browser. Attempts to get in using Lynx stalled as it seems the router will not serve up the frames in the interface independently of each other and it kept issuing 404
A solid-state drive, or “SSD”, is much faster than a traditional hard disk drive (or “HDD”). SSDs have been around for awhile, but a new breed of SSD, called PCIe SSDs, are slowly starting to rise. But how are they different than normal SSDs? SSDs use internal flash chips to house your files, while HDDs use a
Most modern browsers support extensions, which add additional features to your browser. But the fewer extensions you have installed, the speedier your browser should be. Here’s how to uninstall or disable extensions you don’t use. Programs–like your antivirus–can often install their own browser extensions without your permission, so this is useful for uninstalling those as well. Each web browser has
Midnight Commander At the beginning of chapter 4 in TLCL there is a discussion of GUI-based file managers versus the traditional command line tools for file manipulation such as cp, mv, and rm. While many common file manipulations are easily done with a graphical file manager, the command line tools provide additional power and flexibility.
There are number of monitoring tools available. Moreover, i came across a IPTraf monitoring tool which i find very useful and it’s a simple tool to monitor Inbound and Outbound network traffic passing through interface. IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitoring tool (text-based) wherein we can monitor various connections like TCP, UDP, ICMP, non-IP
Netstat Netstat is a command line utility that can be used to list out all the network (socket) connections on a system. It lists out all the tcp, udp socket connections and the unix socket connections. Apart from connected sockets it can also list listening sockets that are waiting for incoming connections. So by verifying
Sometimes you need to open a port on your server, you want it to be recheable only from specific IP address, you can use Iptables for this: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -s 10.1.1.2 --dport 22 -j ACCEPT In that case, you are opening ssh port only to IP 10.1.1.2,
This guide for supported releases of Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint will provide a local install of the latest FFmpeg tools and libraries including several external encoding and decoding libraries (codecs). This will not interfere with repository packages. You may also refer to the Generic FFmpeg Compilation Guide for additional information. Recent static builds are
For years, security has been BlackBerry née RIM’s bread and butter. It was the company’s major selling point in the early smartphone era, when businesses flocked to BlackBerry, and it’s been a major selling point for both BB10 and the new Android-based Priv. A new report casts doubt on just how secure many BlackBerry devices actually