Linux

Restrict daemon access using TCP Wrapper

TCP Wrapper is a host-based Networking ACL system, used to filter network access to Internet Protocol servers on (Unix-like) operating systems such as Linux or BSD. It allows host or subnetwork IP addresses, names and/or ident query replies, to be used as tokens on which to filter for access control purposes.

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Web

Premailer: preflight for HTML e-mail

Premailer is a script accessible from the web that turns external CSS webpage into inline, improving the rendering of HTML e-mail. This makes it possible to make a webpage and then run it througt this script to make a HTML e-mail.

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Linux

Switch off annoying bell/beep in xterm

My colleagues don’t like all the bell/beep sounds I make when I’m working in a xterm through my putty ssh client. To please them I’ve added this line to /etc/inputrc to disable bell on tab-completion. set bell-style none

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Linux

Enabling Remote Access to the Installation System

You may access either graphical or text interfaces for the Redhat installation system from any other system. Access to a text mode display requires telnet, which is installed by default on Fedora systems. To remotely access the graphical display of an installation system, use client software that supports the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) display protocol. […]

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Linux

HP Compaq 8510p hardware list in linux

You can use lspci -n to analyce what hardware is on your system. My new laptop a HP Compaq 8510p gives the following output: 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2a00 (rev 0c) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:2a01 (rev 0c) 00:03.0 0780: 8086:2a04 (rev 0c) 00:03.2 0101: 8086:2a06 (rev 0c) 00:03.3 0700: 8086:2a07 (rev 0c) 00:19.0 0200: 8086:1049 (rev 03) 00:1a.0 […]

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