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Compile a (CentOS) Kernel And IPTables With TPROXY Support

A default (CentOS) kernel doesn’t have TPROXY support, which is needed if you want to it to behave as a transparant proxy. This is useful if you have a cluster set-up with one or more loadbalancers, but you still want … Continue reading

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Increase A VMware Disk Size (VMDK) Formatted As Linux LVM

To increase the size of your VMware Virtual Machine, you need to do 2 major steps. First, you need to increase the disk’s size in your vSphere Client or through the CLI. This will increase the “hardware” disk that your … Continue reading

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Compiling, Running and Cursing on Chromium OS – Getting It To Work

Here’s how to get started on compiling Chromium OS from source, and running the operating system inside a virtual machine. The cursing part is mainly to set it all up, as it’s quite cumbersome. In order to inspire you to … Continue reading

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BackTrack 4 Final Release

Haven’t updated this blog in a while, so here’s a minor update; The BackTrack 4 Final Release is out! If you’re not entirely sure what it is, read up on the website of this fabulous pentesting toolkit. I’ll be testing … Continue reading

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Using rsync over cp: don’t we just love progressbars?

If you need to copy large files in a Linux environment, you would usually use the cp command. Makes sense, since it’s to copy files. The downside: you don’t know how far you are within your copy. You can toggle … Continue reading

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