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How to spoof your speedtest.net results
In this tutorial we will be showing you how to spoof your speedtest.net results. You will require a httpd server to do this, in this tutorial I used lighttpd running on debian. To install lighttpd on debian just simply run and edit your php.ini to change cgi.force_redirect to 0 Come down and you'll find ;cgi.force_redirect [...]
Continue reading...Set Preference for IPv4 over IPv6 on Windows 7
Monday, April 5, 2010
By default on Windows 7 IPv6 is preferred over IPv4, this is a nuisance when your IPv6 connectivity is supplied via a 6 to 4 tunnel. This tutorial will show you how to set preference for IPv4 Open regedit Start -> Search -> regedit Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip6\Parameters\ Create a DWORD value [...]
Continue reading...Installing Windows 7 from USB
Saturday, April 3, 2010
You've had your netbook for sometime now, Windows has gotten slow and clunky, Your feeling the need to reformat but don't have a CD-ROM what to do? Simple, create a USB Flash Drive that can boot into the windows installer. You will need the following USB Flash Drive Windows 7 CD or ISO A Computer [...]
Continue reading...Understanding and Preventing Fork Bombs
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
A fork bomb is just a bash function that gets called recursively. Once a fork bomb is active on a machine it may not be able to preform normally until a reboot is made, as the only solution to the fork bomb is to kill all its processes. Bash Functions A fork bomb is really [...]
Continue reading...Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian
Friday, September 25, 2009
I Recently found the 'system sound' tab in gnome-sound-property grayed out my work around to this was to install the freedesktop sound theme. Firstly remove gnome-audio Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds Install some needed packages Grab the source for freedesktop sound theme from git.debian.org Unpack and apply some small [...]
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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