I ran across this photo and thought it was brilliant. A common problem, what to do with the entertainment center wires, and this guy took a tack I had never thought of – just hide the wires in plain sight but bend them in such a manner that the represent the angular lines of a circuit board.  In essences, he’s taken the ugly mess of wires and turned them into “art”.
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It’s funny how programmers get in a "rut", using the same old coding habits and command line syntax for years on end. I just found that you can create new directories and subdirectories with a single Unix mkdir command using the -p parm. mkdir -p top_level_directory/child_directory/another_child_directory And if you’re curious, this won’t work (I tried […]
Gotta love the mysql database. Â Here is a list of common mysql commands and syntax that you will use most often. To login (from unix shell) use -h only if needed. # [mysql dir]/bin/mysql -h hostname -u root -p Create a database on the sql server. mysql> create database [databasename]; List all databases on the […]
An intrusion detection system (IDS) can perform log analysis, check file integrity, monitor policy changes, and keep an eye out for rootkit installations and alert you when a threat is first suspected. The IDS that I chose for my host was OSSES HIDS, an open source host-based Intrusion Detection System offered by Trend Micro. Here’s how I installed OSSEC on my hosted Linux VPS and Splunk on a local Windows machine to monitor.
