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Category Archives: Tips+Tricks

What is my IP?

Posted on 24/10/2011 by Googs

Google now returns your ip address as a result when searching for “my IP” or “what is my IP” http://www.google.ie/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=1696588 Not sure how new this is but it saves a click or two …..

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Google default search to https when signed in

Posted on 19/10/2011 by Googs

If only they just redirected all traffic to the https version……. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html

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Fortigate SSL VPN login issues after upgrade to Version4 MR3 Patch2

Posted on 07/10/2011 by Googs

If you suddenly find that you cannot log in remotely using the SSL VPN authenticating via radius and  are encountering the following   sslvpn-user  pri=alert action=ssl-login-fail reason=”no_matching_policy” msg=”SSL user failed to logged in”   Add individual users to  the User … Continue reading →

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40% off YubiKey October 2011 – hak540

Posted on 05/10/2011 by Googs
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Linux log tail

Posted on 15/08/2011 by Googs

A very handy command to use when debugging apache issues is the “tail -f” command. This will display continually output the last lines of each specified log file.   i.e. “tail -f /var/log/https/access_log”

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PsExec

Posted on 12/08/2011 by Googs

A very handy tool to run commands on a remote system i.e. want to run ipconfig on a server but not go through the hassle of logging on??? Then PsExec is the answer. It can be found….here…

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Black logon screen Windows Server 2003

Posted on 12/08/2011 by Googs

The windows login screen may appear black if the registry entry responsible for the colors becomes corrupted. In this case it has values of ( 0 0 0)… or black…..   This is simpley fixed by making the appropriate changes … Continue reading →

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