Archive for the ‘gnu linux’ Category

 

recursive get from an FTP server

April 10th, 2012

As we all know, downloading a directory from an FTP server over FTP over the command line is not possible. Some, have found mget to be the holy grail, I certainly do not. I was restoring my music backup from my NAS, and I didn’t want to do it the GUI way, so CLI is [...]

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The Unofficial Gentoo Linux x86 uClibC stage3s’

August 5th, 2011

The uclibc experimental stages on the gentoo mirrors are all outdated(they go back to years), so here are my stage3s’, which have been updated. They’re very similar to, and in fact can be considered to be the same stages that the Gentoo Community provides, only updated. As of 27th August, they are now built by [...]

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Resetting a User’s Home Permissions

July 13th, 2011

Recently I managed to mess up my home permissions, to the extent that I owned the files, but couldn’t read them. Fixing an entire user’s home directory permissions is simple and easy. # chown user:user -R /home/user/ # chmod -R u+rwX /home/user/ Done.

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comparison sheet | plug computers

June 11th, 2011

A lot of these plug computers are in the market. Which one is right for you? Here’s a comparison sheet to help you decide which one should you be looking for: Plug Computer Processor Memory JTAG WiFi Network USB SATA Price Ionics Cumulus KW 1.2Ghz 512MB NAND, 512MB DDR2 Yes Yes 1 Ethernet 1 2 [...]

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playing with grsecurity | a brief tutorial

June 4th, 2011

This howto is intended for those looking for better means to secure the Linux kernel, and the userland by the means of a powerful and simple role based access control policy. Contents What is grsecurity? Setting up grsecurity + gentoo in a VM The real thing: Grsecurity Getting familiar with gradm Generating the policy Fixing [...]

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