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setting up putty to be used as a socks5 proxy over ssh

Nov

7

2014

This was taken from: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~xuanluo/sshproxywin.html I am posting this for my own knowledge, just incase that site ever goes down. Run PuTTY. It starts in the “Session” screen; fill in the settings for your SSH connection. The fields “Host Name” and “Port” are pretty self-explanatory. You can enter the username too by filling the “Host ...

using chrome with socks ssh proxy without any DNS leaks

Nov

7

2014

For funsies, I wanted to try this. I wanted to use my SOCKS proxy setup, which was very simple: Then I wanted to use chrome to bypass all proxies that IE has setup AND make sure DNS leaks do not occur. HOW TO SETUP SOCKS PROXY VIA SSH and PUTTY: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~xuanluo/sshproxywin.html Once you have created ...

How to remove the chrome bell in the notification tray icon

Aug

16

2014

Well this is annoying! It used to be removed via: chrome://flags/ and then just disabling “Enable Rich Notifications Mac, Windows”, but now it is: “Notification Center behavior Mac”. You also have to leave the setting to DEFAULT, and not disabled. Then relaunch and it’s gone. We shall see what it takes on the next go ...

centos 6 multiple vlans with one eth device

Aug

8

2014

The scenario I had was 1 eth0 device, and my port trunk’d to allow 9 and 10 vlans. I wanted to assign the full /24 to this box, using only eth0 and the trunk port in CentOS 6. This is what I had to do. in linux NEED eth0 and one VLAN’d CFG: cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ...

history command with timestamp linux

Jul

25

2014

I always find it easier when my history has a time stamp, you can coorolate a lot of things, like last, start/stops of services, who done it, etc. export HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%F %T ” This will work for the session, but if you want it saved for every log in add to respective bash_profile: ~/.bash_profile or /root/.bash_profile

Firewall Status: Enabled but Stopped in CSF with cPanel

Jul

1

2014

I kept getting: Firewall Status: Enabled but Stopped in my CSF in cPanel. I am currently running WHM 11.40.1 (build 11) and csf v7.03. I tried just clicking start, no luck it would just flip back a few minutes later. So I ended up dropping to shell and running service csf stop iptables –flush service ...

error when copying or overwriting the same directory name linux

Jun

28

2014

my directory structure in linux – centos: /home/html/prod/wordpress/update/ /home/html/prod/wordpress/ /wordpress/ is my wordpress install, and /update/ is my unziped download files and directories. The errors I kept getting when trying to move or copy the entire directory while sitting in /home/html/prod/wordpress/update/ was: mv: cannot move `wp-admin’ to a subdirectory of itself, `../wp-admin’ mv: cannot move ...

how to disable RHN in linux – red hat or centos

Jun

25

2014

What I did to disable it was go to: /etc/sysconfig/rhn and delete all of the files in it. If you want to re-enabled it after, you can just copy the files back, so you may want to copy them to a location you want to keep them at.

How to get external ip via linux command line

May

2

2014

wget -O - -q icanhazip.com you will get a very easy looking readout example: root@madhost419 [~]# wget -O - -q icanhazip.com 74.122.196.130 root@madhost419 [~]# or via curl: curl http://www.cPanel.net/showip.cgi

change CSGO crosshair to pink

Apr

20

2014

PINK CROSS HAIR COMMANDS: cl_crosshaircolor 5 (This tells the game you want to create a custom colour using the RGB values) cl_crosshaircolor_r 255 cl_crosshaircolor_g 0 cl_crosshaircolor_b 255 cl_crosshairthickness 1 (This sets the thickness of the cross hair lines, default is 0.5) cl_crosshairgap 0 (This sets the distance of the gap between the cross hair, default ...