View File Extensions In Windows 7
By default, Windows 7 hides your file extensions. If, like me, you get a little twitchy if you can’t see this information, then you’ll want to change your setup pretty quickly. To view files extensions in Windows 7, do the following:
Full StoryPHP Redirect For Affiliates
The problem: you, as a scurrilous affiliate marketer, have a website with a sales page pushing a particular product. People link to your page to get the product but your sales page then “sells them” again and links to the merchant’s website where they can actually get the product. Your website, in effect, is an obstacle in the purchase process!
Full StoryMake An Action Replay Device For Your Xbox
If you don’t want to buy an Action Replay – or can’t (depending on where you live) – for whatever reason, you can make your own. This is going to involve a soldering iron for added fun.
Full StoryTop 29 Most Wanted Firefox Plugins
Firefox plugins can make your browser based “work” quicker, easier and more convenient. Unlike extensions (which modify or add to existing functionality), plugins help your browser perform specific functions like viewing special graphic formats or playing multimedia files. Get tooled up with my top 29 list of Firefox plugins:
Full StoryTurn Any .exe File Into A Service
This method has not been tested with Vista, though it is known to work with 2000/XP/2003 Server.
The following steps will allow you to turn almost any .exe file into a service. Please note that some .exe files will need command line parameters passed to run with functionality.
Full StoryRegain Lost Windows Password With Linux
Check out this FREE method for retrieving forgotten Windows passwords. I works on Windows XP and Vista (not yet tested on Windows 7).
Ingredients: one Linux live CD (that auto mounts Windows partitions – e.g. Ubuntu, Backtrack, Fedora, openSUSE).
Full StoryBrute Force Calculation Spreadsheet
Mandylion Research Labs have published a bruteforce attack time estimator that predicts how long it would take to crack a password. It’s in Microsoft Excel format and what you should do is enter variations in the numbers of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters, to get a feel for how long an evil hacker would probably take to crack your credentials.
Full StorySimple .htaccess Intrusion Detection System
The following addirions to your ,htaccess file will protect you against common URL encoding attacks such as SQL injection, white space, javascript, etc and redirects the URL to log.php. Log.php will then alert you via email.
Full StoryHow To Securely Delete Files In Linux
If you are using a file system such as EXT3, ReiserFS, JFS, or XFS you cannot securely delete your files without using an encrypted file system. These are what is known as journaling file systems and they record all changes that occur in your files. Every record insertion/deletion/update is logged. This replication of data is useful for disaster recovery, however, it means that even if you delete a file, there is still a record of it in your system.
Full StoryHow To Setup MySQL Replication
MySQL is the relational database system of choice for open sourcers. Replication is the process of replicating data from one MySQL database server (the master) into another (the slave). We’ll go into why you would want to replicate a MySQL database in another article.
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