I’ve experienced many instances where the Auto-update feature in WordPress fails to update either a plugin or WordPress itself. One solution to this problem is remarkably simple, and hopefully will be fixed soon by the WP core developers in an upcoming release. The problem seems to be caused by a messy previous upgrade in which…

Do you have a list of countries that you want to block access to your site? Have you tried adding IP numbers into your .htaccess file only to generate a HUGE .htaccess file and a neverending stream of IP numbers? How about using mod_geoip!! mod_geoip is a module that can be compiled into Apache on…

Disable PDF protection using two simple commands in Ubuntu Use two simple commands to convert a protected pdf into an unprotected pdf. Here in this example i assume the protected pdf file name to be ‘protected.pdf’. Now open your terminal and type. pdftops protected.pdf out.ps pstopdf out.ps out.pdf The out.pdf will be your unprotected PDF….

Send standard error and standard out to the same file This article may seem odd to those who have read a few of my others. However, this is by far my highest ranking search term. Thus I thought I would write up an simple and explicit explanation. The following will send the output of ls…

time curl -s “http://g33kinfo.com?[1-1000]” real 0m0.017s user 0m0.006s sys 0m0.006s and another one from bashcurescancer/com #!/bin/bash # Author: see http://bashcurescancer.com/improve-this-script-win-100-dollars.html # Modified and extended by “Chris F.A. Johnson” , 2007-02-25 # Web site: http://cfaj.freeshell.org ## Features: ## Will use non-standard port if specified in URL ## (e.g., http://example.com:8080/index.html) ## Checks for successful connection ## Moderately…

Mdadm Cheat Sheet Mdadm is the modern tool most Linux distributions use these days to manage software RAID arrays; in the past raidtools was the tool we have used for this. This cheat sheet will show the most common usages of mdadm to manage software raid arrays; it assumes you have a good understanding of…

I am not sure why you would want to use a command like this but I am sure there is some reason for it, so here ya go; $ for i in $(seq 1 1000); do let “size = ($RANDOM/100)”; dd if=/dev/urandom \ of=file-$i count=$size 2>/dev/null;done Maybe if you want to prank your cubemate or…

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9914 This command runs a simple single-threaded web server on any port you choose as the current user. Logging is to stdout/stderr, and a ctrl-c will stop the server. Great for temporarily sharing a directory. All data in the folder will be visible, including (dot) .files and they can be downloaded, but…

via Paul (lovepig.org): netstat -npa –inet | grep :80 | sed ‘s/:/ /g’ | awk ‘{print $6}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | while read line; do one=`echo $line | awk ‘{print $1}’`; two=`echo $line | awk ‘{print $2}’`; if [ $one -gt 100 ];then iptables -I INPUT -s $two -j DROP;…

Download and extract the chromiumos.img and run the following command in the same directory as the file, where X is the device name of your USB drive. sudo dd if=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4M Once the command finishes, you can then boot from the USB drive. FAQ: —————————————- Q: How big a USB drive does this require?…