How to import your Bookmarks to Safari

So you’ve made the switch to the Safari web browser; congrats! But what about your bookmarks? If you have a rather large list of bookmarked websites then you’ll need to import them! The following method demonstrates how to export your bookmarks from Firefox and import them using Safari. Step...

Installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu Hardy

With the release of Google Chrome last week, it was interesting to see all the articles that popped up with Linux users installing Google Chrome (Which is a windows product at present) on Linux. The biggest problem I found was that you need the latest version of WINE to get this working, and no amount...

How To: Kaspersky Anti-Spam

Every network administrator at some stage in their career will come into trouble with the influx of spam during their career because, quite simply, spammers are smart. If you did a Google search for “Linux Anti-Spam”, you’ll be bombarded with tutorials using the infamous, free, SpamAssassin...

Preconceptions About Network Security

A common preconception about network security is that as long as the firewall is working and preventing all unauthorized access to internal devices (that’s incoming traffic) – then the firewall is doing its job. However this often isn’t the case and a number of recent attacks have proved...

Rootkit Detection and Removal

The other day I noticed something weird when I performed the command “ls -l”. Bash was reporting some strange output and the first thing I did was throw it into Google…. which revealed one thing; my Linux box had been comprised. Freaked out at first, I started researching everything...

Ezbounce tutorial

Ezbounce is a cool peice of software that has many useful features for the hardcore IRC user. If your a regular IRC user who wants to hide your identity, stay connected to channels whilst offline and have a centralized IRC session – be sure to check this guide out. From the ezbounce website. ezbounce...

Linux Innuendo

who | grep -i brunette | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep

Turning off Non Delivery Reports

MORE INFORMATION To disable NDRs, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager. 2. Expand the Global Settings container in the left pane, click Internet Message Formats, right-click the Default object, and then click Properties. 3. Click...

School blocked myspace?

A friend came to me with an issue recently, she found herself blocked from sites such as friendster and myspace. While I don’t particularly care for these type of social networking sites (I mean, we didn’t have them in my day – I turned out okay didn’t I?!?), I was here to lend...

Sorting WordPress categories alphabetically

By default, the blogging platform “wordpress” doesn’t sort categories by alphabetical order. To change this you need to set an argument when calling the function. Under the theme editor, find where the categories are listed (most often the sidebar) and look for the function wp_list_cats. To...

Google Page Rank update on the way

That’s right folks, Google has pushed the button and a PR update is on the way. The webmaster world is buzzing as frantic web guru’s check statistics and query Google datacentres, hoping that the Googlebot is in a happy mood. Follow the discussion on Sitepoint.

Page Rank Tools

I’ve recently launched a site with a few tools to help people with their SEO plan. Tools include the; Ability to check your Google PageRank. Ability to check the amount of pages Google has indexed for your website Ability to check Search Engine Results Ranking Plus a few small q/a and tips and...

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