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http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/ for checking if a live website is referring to some malicious js / having unwanted iframes https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/ and http://www.clamav.net/index.html and http://www.eset.com/ for scanning files for unwanted conten from the command line:

it’s high time to move away from truecrypt [ which i’m doing by moving to luks and btrfs on the top of it for extra thrills ], but i still have bunch of places that were not moved to the alternative full disk encryption. what do do when after unclean shutdown this happens: ?

i use ipmitool to check health of the poweredge servers from nagios. in essence i execute: and alert if the exist code is non-zero, then i execute and again – i alert on non-zero exit code, i also grep the file in search of lines not containing ok/ns. this was working fine for DRAC 5 ... Read More

newly arrived Samsung CLX-4195FW greeted me with just blue samsung’s logo on the white background presented on the front LCD screen; at the same time printer correctly acquired IP via DHCP and i could access the management interface via the network. i’ve called Samsung 3x and luckily enough at the 3rd attempt i spoke with ... Read More

in dell’s e6220 that i use for work travels i have dw1501 wifi card. in theory it’s possible to change card’s MAC address in the control panel > network and sharing center > change adapter settings > wireless network connection > properties configure > advanced > locally administered MAC address. problem is the values i’ve ... Read More

did the clipboard suddenly stopped passing text between your local computer and the remote desktop session? the first thing i do in such case is: start the task manager on the remote host go to processes, find rdpclip.exe and kill it start again rdpclip.exe on the remote host and try copy and paste again

jpegoptim can reduce size of JPG files. if used without -m option it’s lossless. apt-get install jpegoptim find . -type f -exec jpegoptim -m80 {} ‘;’ for pngs there are few tools out of which i found pngcrush to give best results. unfortunately it does not work ‘in-place’ and temporary file needs to be created ... Read More

run cmd as admin and there: after that control panel>hardware>power options>change advanced power settings and hibernate is available that did a trick for windows 2012 server on an old poweredge 1950 server. unfortunately wake on lan refused to work despite of: in the control panel > network and internet > network connections for the lan ... Read More