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The code for the library
helloworld.c:
#include <stdio.h>
void hello() {
printf("Hello world!\n");
printf("Creating a shared and static library w ...

In all howtos I've found they say linking is so easy, but it never works if the library is not in default system paths. Why? You use all options from the howto and it won't run - shared library is not ...

The next two scripts are used for converting hex ips used by phpbb2 in databases. Ex. hex ip for 192.168.1.1 is C0A80101
ip2hex
#!/bin/php
<?
printf("%08X\n",ip2long($argv&# ...

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PHPBB2 stores ips as hexadecimal strings. php function that could convert ip to phpbb2 ip string is this:
echo sprintf('%08X',ip2long('192.168.0.1'));//result: C0A80001
convertin ...

Sometimes it is usefull to send integers as strings. For example if you want to make your link shorter (for example if users need to copy it and send it to firend) and your link contains 2-3 integers ...

Many people have installed cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-sql packages and they can't make make saslauthd to use SQL auth. A workaround is to use Dovecot's SQL authentication.

First edit /etc/sysconfig/ ...

It's good to monitor established TCP connections. For example if you have web server and you see too many connections it means that you may have troubles with web spiders or spider like software for d ...

There are many howtos for compiling kernels, but most of them don't work. Why? It's not that they are wrong. The problem is that every linux distribution has its own idiosyncrasies. There is no howto ...

Is there a way to limit traffic per IP if the client IP addresses are not know (internet).
What I thought to do is to make 1000-2000 HTB classes and using pcap library to make sniffer which will dyna ...

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If I need to control a remote server I usually use SSL enabled web tools, ssh, ssl connection to database etc. But this is not always possible.
As an example if I had to do remote mysql backups, but ...

Using http redirect (code 301 - Moved Permanently) is useful because search engines gives negative credits for using multiple domains on the same site (mirror sites doesn't count).
Other issue is whe ...

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This is a simple script to control traffic for your users.
Let's say that you have a ...

When I search for linux howtos all I find is the same old howtos - no changes, no updates. Some are really old and everyone copies them to their site ... and they become experts.
In this site I'll po ...