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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 apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi php5-mhash and edit your php.ini to change cgi.force_redirect to 0 nano [...]

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Understanding and Preventing Fork Bombs

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 [...]

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Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian

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 sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-audio Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds sudo rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/desktop/gnome/sound Install some needed packages sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 [...]

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Setting up passworded directories on lighttpd

Open your lighttpd.conf nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf If mod_auth isn't already in your server.modules list add it e.g server.modules = ( "mod_alias", "mod_accesslog", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_auth", "mod_cgi", "mod_expire", "mod_redirect" } Add the two following lines to your configuration auth.backend = "htpasswd" auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/home/lighttpd/htpasswd" For each directory add a block something similar to be one below auth.require = [...]

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IPTables and Bashrc Aliases

We all know IPTables can be difficult. By adding the following lines to your ~/.bashrc you can simplify the tasks of blocking packets from a certian ip. First your going to need to install IPTables: Gentoo: emerge iptables   (Must be  Root to use/install iptables) Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install iptables Then edit your .bashrc file and [...]

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