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Vuze has built-in ability to exclude IP addresses under Options > IP Filters iBlockList.com have many of these lists and the bluetack level 1 list address is: http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz This URL should be entered into the space labelled: IP Filter file to autoload This will restrict sharing with any of the listed IP addresses.
We had a problem today on CentOS release 6.4 when restarting the bind / named service. We had been receiving the error message: /usr/sbin/named: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10: no version information available (required by /usr/lib64/libdns.so.100) This problem may have come about from using the CentAlt version of Bind. We are using 40:9.9.4-1.P2.el6 and we had been using openssl-1.0.0-27.el6_4.2.x86_64 … Read more »
An example of narrowing down disk space usage issues on Linux. Starting with the following command: df -h We see that the root volume has 16% space left. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 129G 103G 20G 84% / cd / We need to run the du command but I wanted to exclude… Read more »
My colleagues have been getting a little frustrated by the “Plugin Timeout” messages in Nagios resulting from the length of time it takes to check for Windows Updates. I had been using Jules Check for Windows Updates that essentially boils down to calling: $updateSession = new-object -com “Microsoft.Update.Session” $updates=$updateSession.CreateupdateSearcher().Search((“IsInstalled=0 and Type=’Software'”)).Updates So I took Jules’… Read more »
The WiFi settings for qub_sec for Android and Linux devices: The certificate is available here and should be downloaded in advance and entered into the field labelled CA Certificate. SSID (wireless network name) = qub_sec Authentication = EAP-TTLS (PAP) Encryption / Association = WPA enterprise (TKIP) For more info see… Read more »
Here are my tips for customizing XBMC, most of the changes to the settings are done so under System > System Settings > Skin > Settings Install the Fusion XBMCHub Repository From the Fusion Repository install the XbmcHub Wizard Edition Fix the Background Image by downloading an original and setting it under System > System… Read more »
I had been using Sound Juicer on Ubuntu to rip Audio CDs to MP3 but looking for a bit more control (specifically over the bitrate) I had a play with Asunder: sudo apt-get install asunder Asunder will auto find the CDDB details for the CD to auto name the output files just like Sound Juicer:… Read more »
Having neglected a wordpress/bbpress installation for a bit I had the problem of dumping tens of thousands of spam and trash and pending items from bbpress. I took a look at the database: To get things done more quickly than using the web browser I deleted the items as follows. I created a php script… Read more »
I had a comment on my recent Ntopng article from a user who needed to reset the admin password on ntopng. Ntopng uses redis as a backend data store. So first check that the redis server is actually running: netstat -luntap | grep redis You should get output similar to: tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6379 0.0.0.0:* … Read more »
I had a problem using Ubuntu and an Acer Aspire V5-571G. Every time I opted to shutdown, the laptop would reboot again after a few seconds. I found this article with the answer for Fedora and to make it work on Ubuntu I chose to replace the shutdown command as follows: sudo mv /sbin/shutdown /sbin/shutdown-default… Read more »
