Category — System Administration

Ultimate htaccess Article:
Heres my list of Apache Web Server .htaccess and httpd.conf code snippets and examples that I use all the time.

dmiessler.com | study | tcpdump:

Tcpdump is the premier network analysis tool for information security professionals. Having a solid grasp of this über-powerful application is mandatory for anyone desiring a thorough understanding of TCP/IP. Many prefer to use higher level analysis tools such as Ethereal Wireshark, but I believe this to usually be a mistake.
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yep, it is useful, but i do prefer ethereal most of the time. i’ve only used tcpdump when i wanted to capture then analyze.

Vint Cerf: one quarter of all computers part of a botnet:
Cerf told his listeners that approximately 600 million computers are connected to the Internet, and that 150 million of them might be participants in a botnet—nearly all of them unwilling victims. Weber remarks that “in most cases the owners of these computers have not the slightest idea what their little beige friend in the study is up to.”

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I think it is actually quite likely that this is a higher number than that having experienced dealing with this at several institutions.

Step-by-Step IPP based Print Server using CUPS:
This tutorial describes how to install a Linux print server with CUPS.
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Handy

Web Curator Tool:
The Web Curator Tool (WCT) is a tool for managing the selective
web harvesting process. It is designed for use in libraries and
other collecting organisations, and supports collection by
non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the
web harvesting process.

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this looks like a great tool.

Rixstep:
Shortcuts
A repository for every keyboard secret in OS X. Some of these are well known, some are not. Shortcuts in the Menu category are common rather than universal. This list should continue to grow exponentially over time.

Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm:
This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm.

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handy.

Development Gateway Launches Software Tool For International Relief and Development Coordination:
January 11, 2005 – The Development Gateway Foundation has launched an open source software tool that organizations can use to coordinate international relief and development efforts. Called the Local Projects Database (LPD), this tool can be downloaded from the web. See http://lpd.sourceforge.net/

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this could be useful…

Literary tests for a digital world:
The Information and Communications Technology literacy assessment is intended to measure students’ ability to manage exercises like sorting e-mail messages.
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is this something we really want measured by testing?

A shell script to check on Apache: “I thought this may be useful to anyone here who is running a web server. I use it on my linux boxes, and with my Apache crash last night, I am now implementing it on my Mac OS X machine.

Filename: checkapache

#!/bin/sh

…”

(Via macosxhints.)

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this could be handy in some places