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Installing World of Warcraft on Linux

By Karl | January 27, 2012 - 8:36 pm |January 27, 2012 Linux, Video Games
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Installing World of Warcraft on Linux is a pretty simple task, there are something I would recommend doing to help. World of Warcraft. (Wrath of the Lich King DvD works best here) Installing Wine. The tricky part is that most people will tell you, you cannot install a full blown… Continue reading →

Tagged Wine, World of WarCraft, WoW, WoW Wine

How to add Magnet Links inside Firefox

By Karl | January 16, 2012 - 6:30 pm |January 16, 2012 Apple, Linux, Windows
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The days of the Torrent files are slowly fading away, one such entity known as the ThePirateBay is switching from Torrent files to Magnet Links. What this is going to mean for the end user is that we will not be downloading *.torrent files anymore but instead users will be… Continue reading →

Tagged Bittorrent, BT, Magnet, Magnet Links

Crack WiFi Network WPA Password

By Karl | January 10, 2012 - 2:25 am |January 10, 2012 Linux
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I came across an interesting article on Google+ from Life Hacker today, it explains how to Crack WiFi Network WPA password using Reaver.  I am really interested in knowing more details about how this crack works but from what I gather from just looking at it, it seems to brute… Continue reading →

Tagged WPA, WPA Crack, WPS, WPS Crack

Ubuntu 11.10 black screen

By Karl | January 3, 2012 - 9:28 pm |January 5, 2012 Linux
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The installation of Ubuntu 11.10 was going pretty smooth until after the install finished, it had to restart in order to boot into the freshly new operating system.  The system went into the BIOS and appeared like it booted in to the MBR, but when it got to GRUB it… Continue reading →

Tagged Grub, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu minimal

OpenVPN Client with Windows, Mac, Linux

By Karl | January 2, 2012 - 11:25 pm |January 5, 2012 Apple, Linux, Windows
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I recently started to like the idea of using an OpenVPN, why? Well for starters it can be used for anonymously web surfing. Think of it this way; an OpenVPN connection will allow you to securely connect to a trusted server by means of a certificate, username, password, or private… Continue reading →

Tagged OpenVPN, Openvpn.org, VPN

Gentoo update changed my DPI

By Karl | December 21, 2011 - 3:37 pm |January 3, 2012 Linux
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I recently updated my system with a quick emerge -uDN world because I was bored and needed some excitement on my desktop, everything went smooth but when I went to restart X I noticed that one of my monitors fonts where off, thinking it was the actual application I went… Continue reading →

Tagged DPI, Gentoo, Xorg

Simple mysqldump backup script

By Karl | December 14, 2011 - 8:39 pm |February 24, 2012 Linux
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**UPDATED 02/24/2012** I finally got around to changing up my script and decided to change a few things that would essentially make more sense, the only main difference that I am doing is in the find command I am using better options to cycle the current SQL files.  My old… Continue reading →

Tagged bash, mysql backup, mysqldump, shell script

Find files on Linux with find

By Karl | December 10, 2011 - 12:46 am |January 9, 2012 Linux
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Finding files on Linux is pretty simple, I was in the middle of creating a bash script when I was in need to find files inside a certain folder that was older than X amount of days. Syntax: find $PWD -type f -mtime +10 This tells find to search the… Continue reading →

Tagged bash, cli, command line, find, gnu find

Passwordless SSH login setup

By Karl | November 24, 2011 - 2:37 am |January 9, 2012 Linux
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This process will demonstrate how to setup a basic passwordless SSH keys.  The keys that are created allows you to log into your shell server securely without having to enter your password or you want you can create a passphrase for added security measure but remember if you cannot remember… Continue reading →

Tagged How to, SSH
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    My name is Karl Ahlers and if you couldn't tell I have been into Technology for well over a decade I am currently Comptia A+, Net+, Security+ certified along with Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 certified. I wish to continue with my certifications and will be studying and taking the Cisco CCNA certification.
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