Archive for March, 2008

How to see dual Core AMD or Intel CPU statistics

The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The types of system summary information shown and the types, order and size of information displayed for tasks are all user configurable and [...]

How to Update Alexa Thumbnail Images of Your Website

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Mod_evasive on cpanel server

One way to stop one of the more basic attacks on a server is mod_evasive.This how-to will walk though the process of installing and configuring mod_evasive. This apache module will help protect against people sending too many requests to the webserver in an attempt to flood it. If it detects too many connections the offending [...]

How to Change the Timezone in Linux

1. Logged in as root, check which timezone your machine is currently using by executing `clock`. You’ll see something like “Mon 17 Jan 2005 12:15:08 PM PST -0.461203 seconds”, PST in this case is the current timezone. 2. Change to the directory to /usr/share/zoneinfo, here you will find a list of time zone regions. Change [...]

Add an ip address

This is a quick guide on adding IPs to a system manually. I would only suggest it if you are not using a control panel, such as cpanel, that has a feature to adds ips. If your main ethernet device is eth1 instead of eth0 simply substitute eth1 for eth0. Other then that should be [...]