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April 24, 2016 By wildeng

Find files between two dates I’d like to share a simple way I’ve learned to find how many files have been created between two dates, using Linux command line. The method involves find command. Problem Working on a project that involved the creation of a lot of KOS objects (nothing difficult, just another DICOM object), I […]

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Just-released WordPress 0day makes it easy to hijack millions of websites [Updated]

April 27, 2015 By wildeng

Read this article from Arstechnica: Exploit code lets unauthorized attackers gain administrative control. Source: Just-released WordPress 0day makes it easy to hijack millions of websites [Updated]

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Merging pdf files in one line

February 2, 2015 By wildeng

Merging pdf files into a single one Merging pdf files has never been so simple using Ghostscript from command line in both Linux and OsX. Just open a console and type: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=<yourfile.pdf> <your_list_of_pdfs> This command will merge pdf files your_list_of_pdfs into a single file called yourfile.pdf. So easy, […]

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Linux Tip of the Day

November 13, 2014 By wildeng

Hi all, I’d like to share this with all of you. Because of my job I had the necessity to know which port where used on a remote server that hadn’t nmap installed on it, so what I did was: sudo lsof -nP -i | grep LISTEN Here is the explanation: lsof – list of […]

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First Shellshock botnet attacks Akamai, US DoD networks – Security – News – iTnews.com.au

September 30, 2014 By wildeng

Neverending story with the “ShellShock bug” read this: Attackers have been quick to exploit the Shellshock Bash command interpreter bug disclosed yesterday by building a botnet that is currently trying to infect other servers, according to a security researcher. via First Shellshock botnet attacks Akamai, US DoD networks – Security – News – iTnews.com.au.

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Shellshock bug Here’s How To Patch It – ReadWrite

September 27, 2014 By wildeng

I wanted to write a small article on how to fix “Shellshock” bug on Apple OSX, but there are many around the net. I found this one on ReadWrite and I think that it’s well written and easy to understand! “Apple is aware of the bash “Shellshock” bug that affects OS X users, and issued […]

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Introductory Linux Course on edX

March 26, 2014 By wildeng

The Linux Foundation announced that it will offer its 60 hours introductory course ( normally charged US$2500) for free on edX platform. The course should start on the 3rd Quarter of 2014, as stated in its page on edX website and it will be available for anyone having an internet connection. More explanations here on […]

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Raspberry Pi first approach

January 3, 2014 By wildeng

Hello folks, This Christmas I received what I believe to be the best present in years: a brand new Raspberry Pi model B: a small, low cost, credit card size computer, with no case and internal clock. Since at home I do not have any pc monitor or modern TV,I decided to connect it using […]

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Damaged package tip

November 16, 2013 By wildeng

Hello folks, Just a small Ubuntu tip for all of you. If for some reason while you installing some update, something goes wrong and you get an error due rto damaged packages, opne the terminal and try this: sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update This removes the sources list and updates it. Now you should […]

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Install Solr Search on Ubuntu

October 19, 2013 By wildeng

Hello to everyone, I’d like to share with you the procedure I use to install Apache Solr search server on my Ubuntu machine. Apache Solr is, as indicated on the official website “Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. ” It is written in Java so that […]