Tera Term is the terminal emulator for Microsoft Windows, that supports serial port, telnet and SSH connections. Among many other features it also has built in Macro scripting language. Tera Term is often used to automate tasks related to remote connections initiated from PC. Tera Term, pronounced as ‘tera ta-mu’ and also known by the… Read More
I like to call the method below “The Easy Ubuntu Server Firewall”. You may ask why I call it easy. The answer is simple, it uses standard IPTable’s and has a start and stop script to quickly disable it in the event that debugging is required. Installing the firewall is a simple two stage process…. Read More
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout it’s history. With its superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice for Web, Web 2.0, SaaS, ISV, Telecom companies and forward-thinking corporate IT Managers because it eliminates… Read More
ESXi Firewall Commands Command Description esxcli network firewall get Returns the enabled or disabled status of the firewall and lists default actions. esxcli network firewall set –defaultaction Update default actions. esxcli network firewall set –enabled Set to true to enable the firewall, set to false to disable the firewall. esxcli network firewall load Load the… Read More
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client software with a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable and highly configurable FTP/FTPS server for the Windows platform. FileZilla Homepage
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform… Read More
If you are using subversion(svn), you may or may not know that it has a pluggable architecture that allows you to automate certain aspects of the workflow with hook scripts. These hook scripts are written in bash on Linux and batch files on Windows, today we will be focusing on bash. Below are some basic… Read More
If you are running Dell OpenManage on Ubuntu 12.04 as I previously detailed, then chances are you would also like to automate alerts via email. Since Dell OpenManage does not natively support e-mails we will need to turn to our trusty bash script in order to accomplish this task. The only requirement for my script… Read More
In this tutorial I will show you how to roll your own custom OpenVPN client installer using NSIS. The installer will include the Better OpenVPN GUI Client that I have previously written about. This tutorial is a modified version of Mathias Sundman’s original tutorial which can be found here. Required software NSIS 3.0b3 – Nullsoft… Read More
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With… Read More