Author Archives: diginc

Autostart a Virtualbox VM in Windows 7 the Easy Way

Posted on May 18, 2011 by diginc

I’ve seen a few tutorials out there about setting up a headless Virtualbox service in windows in order to autostart a VM and wasted a few hours of my life following pages of instructions ending in giving up. I recently … Continue reading →

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Synchronize save games between windows computers. Cloud save games with Dropbox. [Minecraft/Dragon Age]

Posted on February 22, 2011 by diginc

Steam Cloud in games like Valve’s Half Life franchise and Torchlight is really handy for synchronizing save games across laptops/desktops or work computers. But I want it in more games! So I did it my self with some easy symbolic … Continue reading →

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Using IPTables with Dynamic IP hostnames like dyndns.org

Posted on May 26, 2010 by diginc

Whenever IPTables has a hostname in a rule it looks up the hostname’s IP address and uses that instead of the actual hostname – so it’s stuck with the IP until the next time IPTables is flushed/restarted. Here’s a quick … Continue reading →

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Bash Script: Confirm domains in your DNS Bind server are still pointed at your address (haven’t moved to other DNS)

Posted on May 7, 2010 by diginc

Here’s a quick script I wrote last year which I forgot about until today. I thought I should share it since it works fairly well with some modifications – it could be refined/improved quite a bit; I’m not the best … Continue reading →

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Encrypt forms’ passwords before submitting with jquery

Posted on May 5, 2010 by diginc

If a site’s login/registration isn’t encrypted using SSL why would you risk sending a user’s password in plain text to the form’s processing script? Because you didn’t know any better and didn’t read this how-to, that’s why. With today’s average … Continue reading →

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Spamato vs SpamBayes [Win7]

Posted on October 8, 2009 by diginc

Which spam prevention product wins: SpamBayes vs Spamato? SpamBayes is the clear winner in my mind. I used Spamato with my outlook 2007 first and recently switched to Spambayes because Spamato simply wouldn’t work with Windows 7 even after going … Continue reading →

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Using fail2ban to open back door ports in your iptables [Port Knocking]

Posted on September 25, 2009 by diginc

The opposite of fail2ban would probably be called auth2allow (authenticate to allow) or fail2allow – but that’s not necessary because fail2ban’s configs can be customized to do exactly what I’m talking about. What am I talking about you ask? Basically … Continue reading →

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My linux Quake 3 dedicated server setup notes (Ubuntu 9.04 server)

Posted on September 16, 2009 by diginc

Not really a tutorial, mostly notes to my self so I remember how it’s done down the road.

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GNUmp3d init.d with PIDs for running multiple instances of GNUmp3d

Posted on September 11, 2009 by diginc

I made some modifications to my original gnump3d init.d script when I needed more than one instance of GNUmp3d running (for multiple folders completely separated). I still haven’t quite figured out how to get the tag database to work for … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu SABnzbd+ protected by an apache2 proxy and htpasswd

Posted on February 7, 2009 by diginc

Basic SABnzbd+ Setup – SAB for short. There are plenty of tutorials out there which cover configuring a normal SAB installation so I won’t cover that here. What I am going to do is make my SAB available through a … Continue reading →

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