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Quick Tip: Adjust sudo Password Timeout Duration

Find yourself entering your password quite often when running a "sudo" command? This is because it only lasts for 15 minutes by default, and can be a bit of nuisance if you're entering commands that are spaced apart from time to time. You can actually adjust

PSA: How to Opt Out of Google's "Shared Endorsements" Ads

If you haven't heard about this already, starting November 11th the company will start using your profile picture, reviews, and recommendations in their advertisements. They announced this a couple days ago and reflected it based on changes in their TOS. In the end, Google will be able to

Organize the Gallery App by Managing Google Photo Sync (Android)

Ever open the default Gallery app and find that there are several pictures coming from different sources? Original settings index all folders on the phone as well as your Google account (e.g. Photos and/or Picasa Web Albums). This can be solved by going through a couple tweaks, although

Cleaning Up after NVIDIA's (or AMD's) Driver Installer

Hardware vendors are making updating drivers and related software a much more streamlined process these days, but certain installer packages such as ones by NVIDIA or AMD tend to leave file remnants behind after they finish running. If have a GeForce card then you can look under "C:\NVIDIA&

Install Transmission on a Remote Machine (with Web UI)

This is another quick project that I felt well suited to be deployed on a Raspberry Pi or any other Linux server. Hook up some external storage to the Pi and you have essentially a NAS powerhouse with decent BitTorrent capability. Transmission is fairly lightweight and has a web UI

Featured Project: SafetyLine Windows App

Quick Fix: Brightness Control on Laptop for Linux (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.)

Here's a tip that might help some people out. So I've installed various Linux distributions on my Acer TimelineX (3820T series) and usually find much of the hardware working out of the box without additional tweaks. One thing that I noticed which wasn't always

Easiest Way to Move to a New or Larger Solid-State/Hard Drive (Windows)

So you have a desktop or laptop with Windows on it that went through several program installs, countless setting configurations, and among many other things. Rather than going through the hassle of wiping everything when moving to a new SSD or HDD, your existing drive can be cloned to the

Project Highlight: Honeypot Deployment (Part 2)

Project Highlight: Honeypot Deployment (Part 1)

Is your Apache Server under Attack?

The Apache web server is a fairly common service that powers many websites today, and it's been under attack for about a bit over a month now. These attacks differ in terms of complexity, strength, and covertness and are not visible without the use of special forensics tools.

Get Rid of Those Ads in uTorrent

Acquisitions don’t seem to find “happy” endings these days, like a possible sale of Linksys where Cisco picked up in 2003 (looks like Belkin is the new "owner" now). On a smaller scale where BitTorrent bought uTorrent and a recent update included some rather obtrusive advertisements or

Booting Multiple OSs on the Raspberry Pi

With flash memory being quite affordable these days, I decided to opt for a more spacious 32GB SD for my Pi as it ended running me only like $20. Possibilities for projects were already endless for this popular board and all that extra space got me thinking. Why not boot

CCA: Covert Channel Application (Backdoor)

Dspoof, a Simple DNS Spoofing Application

Opinon: Goal-line Tech for Soccer

The big word is that the Premier League will be employing Hawk-Eye goal line technology next season, and this is the same equipment used for tennis and cricket. It is different, however, from what FIFA is going to employ next year in Rio which is the GoalControl system. In short,

VLC 2.0+ Settings for HD Videos

So VLC 2.0 is out and with touted features like Blu-ray playback, but it still has problems handling certain HD (e.g. 720p) files - like MKV for instance. What you can do is to go under “Input & Codecs Settings” in Preferences and set “Video quality post-processing level”

Resolving Proxy Message in Google Chrome

When I start Google Chrome web browser on my Windows machine, I noticed it takes some time “Resolving proxy” (bottom left corner) before the page loads. Here are the steps to fix, but you might not be able to do this on publicly shared computers: 1. Click the wrench icon