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	<title>kieranbarnes &#187; Linux</title>
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		<title>Server Side PNG Optimisation with TimThumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little known feature of TimThumb is that is supports server side PNG optimisation. Using the OptiPNG program (Available for Linux and Windows) TimThumb can losslessly compress PNGs on the fly. Quick tests showed an original clients PNG came in at  671Kb, OptiPNG compressed that with no visible difference to 580Kb and nominal server load. So lets [...]
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		<title>How to install the nslookup, host OR dig commands in Linux?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you are unable to use the nslookup, host OR dig command on your Linux server and receives the following message The reason is the package required for the commands to work isn’t installed during the OS installation. These are all DNS related commands useful to check the DNS report of a domain/IP. You need [...]
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		<title>Disabling Core Dumps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found a (cPanel) server was generating over 100Gb of core dumps every time a bad PHP script died or Apache died. Writing these generally useless (who actually debugs these on a live web server) to disk is a pointless waste of disk I/O, especially in a VPS environment. Here is two methods of [...]
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		<title>Messing with time and date on Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CentOS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Linux distros don't come with time synchronisation utilities, even though Windows has done it since Windows 2000. Here's how I solved the issue on a basic CentOS install.1. Set my time zone. 2. Installed ntp utils 3. Set the time - if your on a physical server you may be able to set the [...]
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		<title>Key-Based SSH Logins With PuTTY</title>
		<link>http://bloke.org/linux/key-based-ssh-logins-with-putty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from the previous SSH security ramblings, one of the most secure methods of security is public/private key-based authentication. g up key based SSH logins for two reasons; They are more secure. You aren't prompted for a password which could be brute forced or sniffed via man in the middle attacks for example We're [...]
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		<title>SSH Security Ramblings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SSH - Secure Shell isn't that secure. If you're not using it behind a Layer 7 firewall or an enhanced security daemon like cPanel's cPHulk or even just the default config isn't secure. What can you do? First we can look at the default config that comes with certain Linux versions. Use /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny [...]
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		<title>[Snippet] Create a large file in Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need to create a large file? For disk speed tests? Or space tests? This will create a 500Mb file in your current directory called  your.big.file Related posts: Messing with time and date on Linux Some Linux distros don't come with time synchronisation utilities, even... Fixing cPanel File Permissions Sometimes users mess with their own file [...]
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		<title>CIFS/SMBFS &#8220;mount error 13 = Permission denied&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kieran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you getting a rather generic "mount error 13 = Permission denied"  when trying to mount Windows shares in Linux? I was. Samba's been updated, keep up. You need to add the domain=XXX into your -o command, or text file for your credentials. Related posts: Permanently mount a Windows share in Linux Sick of manually [...]
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		<title>Using SCP to copy files between Linux servers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kieran</dc:creator>
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		<title>Permanently mount a Windows share in Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kieran</dc:creator>
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