tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43793533505930980032012-02-14T13:29:21.510-08:00Erron Drzymalski, A+, MCITP: Enterprise Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04627566637892862502noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4379353350593098003.post-30571992900554329322010-02-23T09:04:00.000-08:002010-02-23T09:30:10.442-08:00

Is your computer slowing down? Are you running out of disk space yet you haven't put any new data on your computer? Most likely your hard drive is highly fragmented, and you have a lot of useless temp data.This simple script defragments your hard drive then runs a program called CCleaner ( Crap cleaner) which gets rid of temp data.Here is how you do it: Download CCleaner installer from http://

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IT administrators are always pestered by the financial department to keep assets documented to make their jobs easier. I was always annoyed by this. I always thought "Wasting my time when I can be improving the companies networks." I would accomplish this by doing a scan with Spiceworks or some similar program, but the records always come out slightly off. The only way to make sure the records

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I was recently tasked with upgrading/fixing the backup system of a Microsoft SQL Database with over 153 gigs of data. The data is also backed up off site. There was a linux server with extra usb ports and no available room on the local machine. The linux machine's local hard drive didn't have enough space for 1 backup.So here is what I had to do a.k.a my "hit list" for this taskHit List:Purchase

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After submitting my csv files, the company we are uploading the information to needed a lot of things standardized to make it easier to build their databases.So I obliged to their demands.When using the csv module and importing a csv file in python a for loop is needed for every column in the document. If you have a document with 9 columns and you only want to take data from columns 1,4,6 the

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Recently, the company I work for switched banks, and applied for a Positive Pay program which double checks all of the checks written against a record we keep and contacts the accounting department when a check that does not match the record is encountered by the bank.This bank required the record to be in a excel spreadsheet with the account # in column 1, a void marker in column 2, a blank cell

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Recently I had my Asus EEE PC 1000 stolen. I wasn't too freaked out by losing the laptop, but I was worried about all the data I would lose. Luckily I had wrote a script to backup my system as well as all of the crucial files to an ftp site.Here is my script (Hopefully it will help you out):#!/bin/bash# FTPBackup.SH Backup Script from debian to ftp server# Written by Erron Drzymalski # Date: 02/

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Analysis:After the first program has completed its task of connecting to several different IRC servers, it begins to download a file called deckari###.exe (where hash marks represent random numbers). This is the file I will be covering in this post.The deckari###.exe that is downloaded by the sdbot varient is another virus downloaded + a Seneka rootkit. I ran the deckari###.exe then ran Rootkit

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Today, A friend of mine sent me a link he received on MSN Messenger which contained a modified version of SDBOT. These are the events of from infection to propagation.He received a this on MSN Messenger then forwarded it to me:irish_*******@hotmail.com: ahha is this you?? hxxp://www.hi5-images.org/images.php?==hisemail@hotmail.comThis link brings you to a download for a DSC0020090301-GIF.EXE.I

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Backing up your MySQL Databases is very easy to do on Debian systems using Cron. The current server I am setting up MySQL Backups on is a Ubuntu 8.10 Server. The crontab in newer version of Debian have crontab preloaded to open all the bash scripts in cron.daily, cron.hourly, cron.weekly. cron.monthly folders. Put any bash script in one of these folders to run at the time needed.Here is the

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I had to make a mailing form for one of the web sites I administrate, and PHP seemed like the best option. The mail function in PHP is set up pretty simply.mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters)You put a to, a subject, message content, headers like from:, and if needed extra parameters such as sendmail parameters.Its pretty simple, and if you do it wrong it is very easy for a malacious user

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I have been working on a website for a University of Nevada, Reno club called U cast which will be a open forum for students to post broadcast media. Their will be regular shows like Campus pulse which will cover campus events and news pertaining to the University of Nevada, Reno. There will also be a show called Renegade News Outlet which will have SNL type news broadcasts (think of Anchor Man.)

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The other day my FireFox 3.0.1 decided that it did not want to function with adobe flash player or vice verse. I uninstalled FireFox and reinstalled it. I uninstalled adobe flash player and reinstalled it. I uninstalled both then reinstalled both. I moved to the adobe flash player beta 1o. It still didn't work. So I decided to move to Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a multi process browser that

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I had the opportunity to work an a friends phpbb3 forums the other day and was informed he had lost his admin accounts password on his forums. I researched the issue and found a few solutions.1. The first solution is to use the forgot password on the administrative account to e-mail the password. The only problem with this is the server must have the ability to send out e-mails over smtp. My

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This video shows the installation process of Ubuntu Server. I am sorry for it being long and with no sound I have no microphone at work to do voice overs. Basically in the process you fill out information such as your keyboard lanugage, your time zone, and region options. After that I entered what I wanted the computers name to be (hostname) with a domain name after. The partitioning part

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The Home Server is a great opportunity for a savvy computer user to learn more, earn cash, back up data, and much much more. Servers can do anything from sharing file on a local area network to hosting vast customer databases. This all can be done from home with a extra computer, a router, patience, and time.First things first. You have to have a extra computer laying around that is still able to

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DD-WRT is firmware for many different routers which started out with the Linksys WRT54g. This router wireless access point combo made many drool over his capabilities. The DD-WRT team takes this to a new level with their firmware. It allows a user to have ssh enabled on the box so one is able to install different linux based software such as Snort, samba, and e-mail servers.DD-WRT also allows for

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Spam is one of the most annoying things. A worker comes in to read through their e-mails and get to work, but when they open up Outlook it is full of hundreds of offers for sex pills, fake lottery winning, and insurance offers from shady companies. Spam wastes valuable work time, uses up disk space on the clients and servers, and uses up bandwidth.Exchange 2003 has a built in feature to block

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Ever been tired of repetitively writing long commands with many switches to decompress tar's,gzips, and other compressed data? Ever hated retyping commands because the way you think a command should be named and the way your Linux installation think a command should be named conflict? There is a solution. Bourne Again Shell has bashrc which allows you to alias commands to make life easier. There

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A friend of mine informed me about this phishing site that steals msn information. This article is going to go over how they steal login credentials with this information and it will also go over how the actual code works. The websites url is hxxp://Whatever.historyshotz.com. First off I attempted to open the url in firefox. Firefox immediatly returns a reported forgery warning which will not

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Ubuntu Server is easy to administrate, but I noticed that many tasks have become daunting. I would connect via ssh every day go through logs and update all of the software. I would make sure that everything is running to the best of its ability and delete all of the old files on my websites, ftp, etc. Then I would have to back everything up. After a couple months of this I thought there has to be

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Swift fox is an application for linux that boasts its ability to configure firefox for each processor it is operating off of. If you are reading this you probably know about firefox. If not I recommend you switch over to using it as your internet browsing application. You can get firefox at getfirefox.com.The installation of swiftfox was made very easy by using automatix2 on ubuntu 7.04. I just

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