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HowFlow — Sometimes you want to write a script that needs the external IP of the router your client is connected to. Here are three possible solutions.

Share it!   Posted by aroedl aroedl about 1 year ago

http://dclavijo.blogspot.com/2008/06/leo-en-el-blog-de-vlan7.html
blogspot.com Whith this small tutorial you can prevent brute force attacks by banning any source ip for 60 seconds if it got 3 consecutive login fails.

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http://tux.50webs.org/tut_smplayer.html
50webs.org SMPlayer gained a lot of popularity lately due to its rich features and the ability to remember settings and time it was stopped for each movie/video file individualy. So you can close it while watching a movie, and next time you open that movie with SMPlayer it will continue from the time you closed it. SMPlayer is built using the Qt4 libraries.

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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-install-firefox-35-in-ubuntu-904.html
blogspot.com Firefox 3.5 comes with several great new features, like the private browsing mode or the support for open video integration (full review here). Since Ubuntu Jaunty comes with version 3.0.11, if you want to try the new Firefox 3.5 release all you have to do is follow the few steps below:

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http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/join-and-split-files-including-video-in.html
blogspot.com Let's say you downloaded some videos of Youtube which all are a part of a larger video that was splitted into parts. A good idea would be to join those video files into one big file. Here's how to do that in Linux:

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http://www.linux.com/feature/138744
linux.com Speedometer shows a graph of your current and past network speed in your console, letting you see your network connection's up and downstream speed and history at a glance. You can also use speedometer directly on a file to monitor the download performance and history of a specific download instead of all network traffic.

Share it!   Posted by aroedl aroedl about 1 year ago

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
livejournal.com Could we write an SELinux policy that allows users to build scripts to process untrusted content into some output that they could safely use.

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http://www.doxpara.com/
doxpara.com Check if your DNS Server is vulnerable against DNS Cache Poisoning

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http://www.netdip.com/ssh-tunnel-proxy-how-to-set-it-up-with-linux-windows-or-mac/
netdip.com Do you want to bypass a firewall that has too many restrictions? Well, all you have to do is set up a secure SSH Tunnel. It's easy and once you do it, you can surf the web privately in addition to not being at the mercy of a network administrator who's decided to block your favorite sites. In this HowTo, you'll learn how to create an SSH Tunnel Proxy and then set up your web browser to use i...

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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-patch-bind-to-avoid-cache-poisoning-debian-etch
howtoforge.com This article explains how you can fix a BIND9 nameserver on a Debian Etch system so that it is not vulnerable anymore to DNS cache poisoning.

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