Amazon Web Services is the perfect solution for hosting a server outside your organization. This allows you to create a cloud hosted database server that takes the strain off your local server infrastructure using Microsoft SQL server 2012 or a Linux based solution in a cloud hosted server instance. There…
Read MoreThe transmission-cli command allows a user to download a torrent file or magnet link using the command line. This is good for downloading a torrent on your home machine over SSH. Type sudo apt-get install transmission-cli to install this useful addon to Transmission. [1]homer@deusexmachina ~ $ transmission-cli http://torcache.net/torrent/B798B2EFF12458D23B53E2110E861411DB44517A.torrent?title=[kickass.to]dawn.of.the.planet.of.the.apes.2014.untouched.hindi.dubbed.scamrip.sumoman transmission-cli 2.81…
Read MoreThis guide I just used used allows a Linux user to disable the password and enable SSH keys to manage logins to an SSH server. http://lani78.com/2008/08/08/generate-a-ssh-key-and-disable-password-authentication-on-ubuntu-server/. This is very useful, you can access your machine remotely and without requiring the user to remember a complex password. if you are on…
Read MoreThere are many useful Linux tips that make the life of a Linux user much easier. One is for the VI or VIM editor. To open a file at a specific line; use this command. homer@deusexmachina ~/Documents/yadex-1.7.901 $ vim src/x11.h +33homer@deusexmachina ~/Documents/yadex-1.7.901 $ vim src/x11.h +33 This will open the…
Read MoreThe watchdogs game is a new shooter game that uses strategies such as hacking into phones and streetlights to achieve various game strategies. The intro shows a reverse SSH tunnel and various Linux hacking tools that the protagonist and his friends use against the enemies. This is rather common in…
Read MoreThe putty ssh client allows you to access your home computer over the Internet using ssh; but you can also tunnel past a proxy and access websites using putty. This means that you can access your home Internet connection through a proxy easily. You need to use port 443 in…
Read MoreUsing the ssh command to connect to a remote computer is a very good way to access your home machine when you are at college or at work. But sometimes you are behind an academic proxy and this blocks your ssh access. I had that problem and I used putty…
Read MoreThe 2012 Dredd movie shows a computer expert that is intending to use Nmap against port 22; which is the standard port that SSH uses. He wants to be able to trace Dredd when he next uses an information terminal. He uses this command against the network to find Dredd:…
Read MoreThe login command is normally used to login to a virtual terminal. This can be used to login in a terminal emulator window. Just type sudo login and then you can use this to login in a terminal emulator. bash 12:31:29 Fri Jul 12 [homer@deep-thought $ sudo login [sudo] password…
Read MoreUsing the Putty application to log into an Ubuntu server is very easy; simply download Putty from here: PuTTY download site and then run the executable which will be in your Users\Downloads folder in Windows 7. Then enter the IP address and port used by SSH on the remote server….
Read MoreThe new Ubuntu phone Linux distribution will come with a terminal application. This means that users of a mobile device will be able to use the bash shell on their mobile device to use various networking commands on the phone as well as other useful Linux commands that make the…
Read MoreThe usage of computers in movies has always been quite hit and miss. The Matrix Reloaded movie had realistic depictions of the usage of the NMAP port scanning command and the use of the ssh command to login remotely to the target machine and execute commands to shutdown the power…
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