Category Archives: tips & tricks

tips on hardening your ubuntu box, or what ever your may call it

close all port
block all incoming connection
apt-get firewall
apt-get ids
apt-get rookit scanner/remover
check /var/log everyday
if those didn’t work, and here is my suggestion
unplugthecable
make a sticker with “apt-get a life” then it stick onto your box
hope this will help
p/s:why the hell my wp 2.3.1 editor broken?? wtf i have to use it without page style enabled.

download all mp3s from directory

have you ever read tips and trick to easy find mp3 from google? find dificulties to download them one by one?
then here’s a trick to download it with a single line command using wget
[~]# wget -r -l4 —no-parent -A.mp3 http://mp3site.com/directory/
it will find and download all files ended with .mp3 format. oh ya, in case is [...]

check host uptime with hping2

here’s some trick to find a host uptime beside using nmap
type this command in your terminal/console (whatever you call it)
$ hping2 host -p portnumber -S –tcp-timestamp
where host is the ip/hostname of a machine you want to check and portnumber is the open port on remote machine.
oh, you be root in order to use that command.
here’s [...]

put proper keyword to your auction ads

i know some of you must be using auctionads to earn some money online. what good about it is that we been given flexibility to put certain keywords to auctionads javascript so that proper ads that related to our website content will come out. by doing that, we normally put general keyword for our web [...]

adobe photoshop CS3-beta cracked

i just tried out new adobe photoshop CS3. since it only give me 2 days to try it so need to find photoshop cs3 patch or keygen, really fast! after googling for a while, i end up with this 2 interesting result.
How to crack Photoshop CS3 Beta (mac OS) — Using HexEdit
you will need hexedit [...]