TIL – Run As in Microsoft Server 2008
Long story short, there is only a “Run as Administrator” option in Server 2008, unless you hold down
14
Sep
TIL – Somewhat useful keyboard shortcut – Shift+F10
From here: Shift+F10 brings up the context menu in Windows. For desk jockeys like me who are on the computer all day, and
21
Jul
Bash script to gauge password strength
UPDATE: Modified for better formatting I googled around for this but didn’t find anything. Most replies to forum posts
10
Jun
TIL – easy blocking of brute force attempts using fail2ban
[root@webl001t log]# grep -i 'auth.*fail' secure | wc -l 30909 [root@webl001t log]# ls -la secure -rw------- 1 root root
01
Jun
TIL – Computer Science terms: idempotent and nullipotent
Idempotent – Related to web transactions, meaning an operation can (like a request for a dynamic page) be carried out 1
01
Jun
TIL – Figuring out which port in a switch you’re connected to with tcpdump
[root@yourbox ~] # sudo tcpdump -nn -v -i eth1 -s 1500 -c 1 ‘ether[20:2] == 0x2000’ tcpdump: listening on eth1,
24
May
TIL – multiple field separators with AWK
For the non redditors, TIL means “Today I Learned” … echo
20
May
