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Test your anti-virus product

I was thinking tonight about anti-virus programs used today.  And with the many malware attacks that aim to cripple your anti-virus solution, how can one test if its working or not. To get past that fale sense of security; because what we don’t know will hurt us.  That said I suggest using a test virus (known virus saved on […]

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PS3 Media Server (Again)

It’s been about 2 years now and well it was time for me to rebuild my PS3 Media Server The last time I made a write up about this; I gave a few steps and left some out. Here is my rebuild and steps I took to get it working. I started off by installing […]

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How-To Personal Technical

dump packets with tcpdump

How many times did you forget the parameters.  I have, countless time. Lets see if my sharing here I will remember some of my favorite commands # tcpdump -nnXSs 0 ‘port 5060’ Command switches (what they are for) “-nn” plays nice by not looking up hostnames in DNS or service names. “-X” makes it print each packet in hex […]

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How to change your host-name in CentOS

I knew how to do this in Ubuntu but doesn’t see to be the same in CentOS. Here are the steps Login via the console or SSH in Goto /etc/sysconfig/ Type nano network Change the HOSTNAME to your preferred servername Press CTRL X > Y > Enter Log off or reboot There may be other […]

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How-To Software

Install htop to Redhat or CentOS (5.X) Linux

htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux, which is a powerful alternative to the start ‘top’ utility. Some of the benefits of htop: Supports mouse interactions Better sorting and selective display Color formatted display Resource graphs Process treeview Installing htop To install htop to Redhat or CentOS (5.X) Linux easily via the yum package […]

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Letting freedom ring with FreePBX

Now that I have setup my first pre-production FreePBX Box, whats next? FreePBX is an awesome community driven Business Phone System.  With its easy to use GUI (graphical user interface) that controls Asterisk (the telephony engine software) this is one of most popular open source telephony engine software out today.  To get started on your own system, […]