PIX/ASA Checklist

PIX/ASA Checklist As with configuring any firewall, administrators should develop a checklist that they can use during the installation and implementation of the PIX/ASA firewall in the network. There are really two components to this checklist. First, you want to define the implementation requirements and determine how the firewall should be configured and what options [...]

CISCO Top networking questions

Cisco networking questions What are 10Base2, 10Base5 and 10BaseT Ethernet LANs ? What is the difference between an unspecified passive open and a fully specified passive open Explain the function of Transmission Control Block What is a Management Information Base (MIB) What is anonymous FTP and why would you use it? What is a pseudo [...]

Installing PostgreSQL

This is a quick guide to installing PostgreSQL on a Linux based system. We need to get this up and running before we can write PHP scripts to talk to the database. We need to install PostgreSQL before we can install PHP (since we need the PostgreSQL header files).

This is a little more complicated [...]

Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life

Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life Posted on – Thu Apr 9, 2009 4:50PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO – The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm’s authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

As many [...]

How Do I Restart MySQL Server?

How Do I Restart MySQL Server?

Each distribution comes with a shell script (read as service) to restart / stop / start MySQL server. First login as root user and open shell prompt (command prompt).

First login as root user. Now type the following command as per your Linux distro:

A) If you are using [...]