Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu ...

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the ...

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

So I had a problem with the ldapusersearch string as some eejit has created an OU with spaces and an apostrophe in the name. So the characters are represented as: comma ...

Flushing local client DNS cache

From info I found here. This is how to flush the local client DNS cache. Windows: ipconfig /flushdns Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Mac: lookupd -flushcache

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Written by jonny in linux, ubuntu

19
Apr
2011

Anti-Virus Software on Linux

A friend contacted me today running an Ubuntu live CD and trying to scan a windows drive for viruses. So for future reference the following antivirus packages can be tried: [...]

Written by jonny in gdl idl

13
Apr
2011

Installing GDL an IDL alternative

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series GDL Gnu Data Language

The Gnu Data Language is an interactive interpreter/incremental compiler for the GNU Data Language, which is primarily used in scientific, astronomical, medical and geo-science data processing applications. It supports graphical [...]

Written by jonny in gdl idl

13
Apr
2011

GDL Editors on Linux

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series GDL Gnu Data Language

For editing GDL / IDL .pro files on Linux you can of course use any Text Editor (gedit, vi) or the IDLDE, but the following could prove useful: 1. Kate [...]

Written by jonny in linux, ubuntu

9
Apr
2011

K3B Buring CDs with MP3s

Creating an Audio CD in K3B (my favourite CD burning software) I received an error that MP3 format was not supported and that the files need to be converted to [...]

Written by jonny in windows

4
Apr
2011

Grepping for LizaMoon infected website files

The Liza Moon attack targets Microsoft SQL Server installations injecting javascript tags into website files. Although we are primarily using Unix/Linux servers I performed some scans using the following to [...]