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How to flush your dns cache

Windows Firstly open a cmd box by going to start > run > cmd Then flush your dns by running the following: ipconfig /flushdns OSX Open your terminal Run the following command: dscacheutil -flushcache Linux Just run the following: /etc/init.d/nscd restart

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How to update your twitter status using curl

Have you ever wanted to update your twitter status from linux command line? Using curl you can do this. curl -u user:password -d status=”Your status message” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml Just simply replace user with your username password with your password and Your status message with the content of your latest tweet

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Windows 7 Move the Users and Program Files Directories To A Different Partition

After installing windows 7 you will be greeted with a user creation prompt press shift+f10 and you should get a cmd window up like in the image below Copy the Users Profiles, Program Files And ProgramData Folders onto the Partition you want to use robocopy "C:\Users" "D:\Users" /E /COPYALL /XJ robocopy "C:\Program Files" "D:\Program Files" [...]

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Enabling SSH on ESXI

On the console screen press ctrl+alt+f1 Type in unsupported then press enter and then type in your root password, You should know have a console window like the one below Run the following command vi /etc/inetd.config Press the i key and then use the arrow keys until you come down to the line that beings [...]

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Setting up a FTP Server on debian

Install vsftpd apt-get install vsftpd Edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and make the following changes: Change Yes to No in the following line Anonymous_enable = YES Uncomment the following lines by removing the # #local_enable = YES #write_enable = YES #local_umask = 022 #chroot_local_user = YES Finally restart the vsftpd /etc/init.d/vsftpd You and any of your [...]

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