There is a lot of information on iptables
(the Linux firewall) out there, but most of them focus on ingress rules.
Unfortunately, in many cases, simply creating ingress rules are insufficient. On systems
you really want to secure, you should also set up egress (outbound) rules to restrict
outbound traffic.
NOTE: The commands in this post assume a Debian-based distribution (e.g., Ubuntu server).
The iptables commands should be the same across distributions, but check your own
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Tech Blog - Here is my simple quick and dirty guide on navigating through XSCF shell on your console, we don't often navigate through the console so it thought its a good idea to keep notes about it :) this is quick guide on some basic stuff like check hardware compnent, check domain status, power up and down as well as reset of the domain. To Connect to a domain XSCF> console -d domainhere To Show status of a domain XSCF> showdomainstatus -d domainhere To displays the domain information... Read Full Story
Tech Blog - Here is my simple quick and dirty guide on navigating through XSCF shell on your console, we don't often navigate through the console so it thought its a good idea to keep notes about it :) this is quick guide on some basic stuff like check hardware compnent, check domain status, power up and down as well as reset of the domain. To Connect to a domain XSCF> console -d domainhere To Show status of a domain XSCF> showdomainstatus -d domainhere To displays the domain information... Read Full Story
The Great Power Of Linux On a Small CD knoppix-coverKnoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2... Read Full Story
Tech Blog - Here is a quick howto on checking Veritas Licenses their features and validity. To check Veritas License validity do: vxliccheck -pv vrts:vxliccheck: INFO: License 98 valid vrts:vxliccheck: INFO: License 100 valid vrts:vxliccheck: INFO: License 95 valid vrts:vxliccheck: INFO: License 96 valid To check Veritas license feature and details vxlicense -p vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Feature name: PHOTON [98] vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Number of licenses: 99 vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Expiration date... Read Full Story
Tech Blog - Check out Yahoo's new homepage, I find it less clustered than the old Yahoo look, text are bigger and generally much cleaner, you also have the option of customizing your homepage if you have logged in to your Yahoo account, for some reason the new look reminds me of google.com/ig page :), check it out Yahoo's new homepage. Read Full Story
Ok I have decided to open up a forums section on the site, since I’m starting to feel the whole blog thing is a little too restrictive for the kind of user interaction I’m looking for. Over the coming days I plan to move most of the articles you can find here on to the forum, leaving this space for my personal blog updates on future projects.
You can find the new forums here if you are interested in visiting.
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Tech Blog - I recently was sent a Partition Recovery Software by Stellar Phoenix, anyway I was able to test some feature of this software particularly "Cloning" feature and "Deleted File Recovery", so far both feature have worked well for me, I was able to recover recently deleted file that has been deleted from the recycle bin, Stellar Phoenix Partition Recovery Software is a comprehensive recovery and disk tool, I find the software is easy to use there are some features that are not... Read Full Story
Ok i have decided to test the waters by adding a live IRC chatroom to the site. If it proves popular enough then it will stay, if not I’ll drop it. You can join the chat by clicking on the chat page above and then click on the image to enter the room.
I hope you enjoy!
-David Read Full Story
