20th August 2010
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Multimedia, Security, cli
When you buy an ebook using your Kindle, there’s a 99% chance it’s a DRM file. That means you won’t be able to read it anywhere else but on your Kindle. And we won’t accept that. To be able to con[...]
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22nd July 2009
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Security, System, cli
If you’re using SSH and you have your ports wide open to the world, your best bet would be to install fail2ban. If you’re curious though as of whom is trying to get in by bruteforcing your SSH passwords, you [...]
Tags: fail2ban, Security, ssh
10 Comments
5th July 2009
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Applications, GNOME, Security
The Update manager in Jaunty tends to show up unexpectedly now and then. You close the window by reflex. But what if you didn’t have to cloes it anymore? Disable the application’s pop-up window by launching
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Tags: Jaunty, Ubuntu, update
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29th January 2009
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KDE, Security, cli
Did you know you can lock your current KDE screen by using the command line? For the 3.x series use
dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface lock
and for KDE 4.x try
qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock
With the he[...]
5 Comments