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Monthly Archives: July 2010

dc universe

Published 07/24/2010 | By mike

wow. this is an awesome trailer for what appears is going to be an epic game.

urban terror for linux

Published 07/17/2010 | By mike

i found the game urban terror the other day. so i downloaded the slackbuild and decided to give it a shot.

download the slackbuild here
download urban terror here

un tar the UrbanTerror.tar.gz from slackbuild and then move the UrbanTerror_41_FULL.zip into the UrbanTerror folder.

you can edit the UrbanTerror.SlackBuild and change the TAG and TMP lines.
PRGNAM=UrbanTerror
VERSION=${VERSION:-4.1}
ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}

CWD=$(pwd)
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}

you can change the TAG to whatever you want - this will be appended to the newly created slack package. you can also change the TMP line as well, to whatever location you want. (i usually change the SBo to my initals and leave the path in the /tmp directory.

run ./UrbanTerror.SlackBuild and it will build the package.

to install, run sudo installpkg /tmp/UrbanTerror-4.1-i486-2_SBo.tgz

then run urbanterror to play the game.

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best futuruama quote. ever.

Published 07/17/2010 | By mike

fry: it’s just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. all year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched tv. but then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. also he got a race car. is any of this getting through to you?

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how to set up htaccess

Published 07/16/2010 | By mike

htaccess can be used with apache to provide password authentication on your website.

open your httpd.conf

find this section:
<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>

add this below it:
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/admin"> AllowOverride AuthConfig Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

once this section is added in, restart apache using apachectl restart

change into the directory you want to protect. then create a new file using vi .htaccess and add the following to it:
AuthUserFile /var/www/htdocs/site/.htpasswd AuthName "Authorization Required" AuthType Basic require valid-user

to add a new user, run
htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/htdocs/admin/.htpasswd username

run apachectl restart after you have added new users.

browse over to your site and test out if everything works.

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entering deepholme

Published 07/15/2010 | By mike

this expansion looks incredible. i cannot wait until it is released.

Posted in world of warcraft | Tagged cataclysm, video, world of warcraft | Leave a comment

block google analytics

Published 07/15/2010 | By mike

add this to your hosts file to block google analytics

127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com google-analytics.com ssl.google-analytics.com analytics.google.com googleanalytics.com

Posted in os | Tagged documentation, mac, networking, software, windows | Leave a comment

poll growing directory stats

Published 07/14/2010 | By mike

# poll growing directory stats

for i in $(tree); do du -hs; tree|grep files; sleep 10; clock;done

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freegeeksquad.com

Published 07/13/2010 | By mike

a good place to go for free tech support. ask a question and typically within 24 – 48 hours it will be answered!

free geek squad

Posted in tech | Tagged documentation, graphics, networking, software, windows, work | Leave a comment

nmap

Published 07/13/2010 | By mike

# syn scan: does not complete tcp connection
nmap -sS -T4

# ack scan: used to map out firewall rulesets
nmap -sA -T4

# tcp window scan
nmap -sW -T4

from the nmap man page: -T4 does the equivalent of --max-rtt-timeout 1250 --initial-rtt-timeout 500 --max-retries 6 and sets the maximum TCP scan delay to 10 milliseconds

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burning an iso via the command line

Published 07/13/2010 | By mike

# using dd
# dd does not have any statistics, so in order to know how long the process is going to take, do the following:

dd if=/path/to/input of=/path/to/output& pid=$! while true; do kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; done

# dvd iso using growisofs
growisofs --dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw=/path/to/file.iso

# cd iso using cdrecord
cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=/dev/hda src.iso

# to mount an iso
mount -o loop /path/to/iso /where/you/want

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