February 27th in Money & Finance by pbu .
Indian paypal users have been desperate for this news and it looks like there has been both good and bad news. Let me start with good news first.
The good news, is local bank withdrawals will start on March 3, 2010
The bad news is, Export code is needed to initiate a …
February 18th in Money & Finance by pbu .
With any investment, first comes safety, then growth and then instant liquidity. Of which, the importance of safety and liquidity are paramount. Look at the value of gold 20 yrs ago, and how far it has multiplied in its value. With gold comes anytime liquidity which is why gold has …
February 4th in Money & Finance by pbu .
May indian paypal users have been complaining that paypal withdrawal initiated between Jan 27 to Feb 3, 2010 have been subjected to delay and funds not credited in their indian bank accounts.
Infact, there has been a huge discussion thread in Digitalpoint forums talked about the same issue.
Paypal did issue email …
January 9th in Linux/Unix by pbu .
In recent times, it seems that there is a new form of Dos (denial of service) attack, targeted towards dns servers. The attacker sends a dns query packet with a spoofed IP and your server will keep on sending responses to the victim.
More information about this attack is documented in …
January 4th in Linux/Unix by pbu .
Mod security is a web application firewall which protects apache from various types of attacks.
If you are using Centos/RHEL and tried to install mod_security, you may often get
No package found.
Here is how you make it to work.
1. Create a new file /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo
2. Place the following lines in that file.
[utterramblings]
name=Jason’s Utter …
January 4th in Games by pbu .
If you are playing GTA 4 or GTA – Episodes from Liberty city in your Xbox 360 console, you will notice that everytime you shoot, the target will get automatically selected. This is quite a problem, because you will not be able to shoot cylinders or cars with free aim.
Here …
January 4th in Money & Finance by pbu .
If you have already added your credit card to paypal, then one day it is most likely to expire. All credit cards do have expiry date (once in every 3 yrs), which after that your credit card company will automatically renew and send you the new card (with new secure …
January 2nd in Linux/Unix by pbu .
I have seen in recent times, there are lot of brute force login failure attempts being bombarded on my ftp server running FTP service on port 21. Every minute or so, my log file shows hundreds of login failure attempts per hour, with every combination. Ever since from then i …
January 2nd in Linux/Unix by pbu .
I have often noticed that while running ftp server with ProFTP there are strange f’s coming with ipadress like FFFF:11.33.44.99
I got this fixed by disabling IPv6 used by Proftp. Just put this one line in your proftp configuration file /etc/proftpd.conf
UseIPv6 off
You can see the changes while analysing the …
January 1st in Linux/Unix by pbu .
If you running a FTP server (Pureftp/Proftp) with a CSF firewall (very importantly in VPS or virtuozzo etc), it is very important to to enable passive mode, because this mode, works best for ftp clients protected by firewall since the client initiates the connection. If you dont enable this mode …
