i got this ps3 version of assasins creed and it has already freezes for abou 2-3 times. i was running on top of buildings in acra and suddenly i noticed that the game hung and unresponsive. i have to force restart the ps3 console.

i tried disabling the information board though my system not connected online, still not fixed the freezing problem. It has been pretty frustrating as everytime i have to play from start because of the hangs. If the …

Just look at the graphics of GTA4 in PS3. Man its just superb! I am loving it.

The graphics is just not so good at the start of the game and when you keep playing for about 20% of the game, the graphics gets superb!

i had a weird problem. i just cant find the error_log file of apache in /var/log. where is error log file of apache (httpd) located in cpanel? i have cpanel running on the centos server and somehow managed to locate the error_log in different directory

/etc/httpd/logs/error_log

or the short way of finding the error log is

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

locate error_log there

I was very uncomfortable playing GTA4 with blurs on bright day light along with lack of clarity. I searched everywhere on the Web to find a solution for this so that i could enjoy playing GTA4 in my new PS3 console.

Here is how you fix the blurry and dull graphics on GTA4.  Here are the possible solutions i have compiled to get rid of this blur and fuzziness in the game.

1. Download PS3 2.35 system update.

Download here

Something there in the …

i just purchased PS3 along with the GTA IV and i was expecting so much from it. Unfortunately, compared to GTA San Andreas, graphics was no way near and lacks clarity in graphics. In my PS3 on 1080i and 720i resolutions the game is blurry and lacks sharpness. Even objects and textures from the distance appear to be blurry and has no clarity. I was using HDTV with my PS3 running at19” LCD TV.

These blurs does happen during bright …

i just purchased PS3 bundled with GTA4! Man i am luving it! i got it in India, which in this june they have started selling PS3+GTA4 => Rs26,990 a good offer!

i have LCD HDTV and though GTA4 story and gameplay is pretty good! i am not too impressed with graphics which is pretty ordinary in PS3. Its graphics is no where near GTA San Andreas though!

PS3 is very good with wireless console and six axis controller Its …

i was into a mess by accidentally deleting /etc/named.conf in my dedicated server running centos 5. Sooner i did that all my sites went down. I was in a terrible situation.

For those of you who did that i am documenting here how to restore the file!

Go to Cpanel WHM > Configuration file rolleback > /etc/named.conf

Manually go back and you would see the file backup and click restore. Thats how i fixed.

There are other ways like

/scripts/rebuildnamedconf

but that didnt fix …

How to Secure Linux Servers
Basic Linux Server Security

Install Firewall (APF or CSF Firewall with BFD)
ModSecurity (Web application firewall)
ModEvasive (Prevent DDOS attacks)
Harden SSH server
Fix Open DNS Recursion
Install RKhunter
Install ClamAV (Antivirus)
XInet Servers Hardening (Disable Telnet/Finger or unwanted services)
Securing PHP
PortsEntry (tool to detect portscans)
Harden host.conf (against IP spoofing)
Check User Uploaded files
Secure /tmp Folders (noexec, nosuid)

This tutorial guide covers only basic linux server security tips intended for linux learners. I am writing this guide assuming that you are …

Installing Snort

Snort is a widely deployed open source intrusion detection and prevention system. You can download and install the source packages from the snort website

wget http://path/to/snort-2.8.1.tar.gz
tar zxf snort-2.8.1.tar.gz
cd snort-2.8.1
./configure
make
make install

ERROR! Libpcap library/headers (libpcap.a (or .so)/pcap.h)
not found, go get it from http://www.tcpdump.org
or use the –with-libpcap-* options, if you have it installed
in unusual place. Also check if your libpcap depends on another
shared library that may be installed in an unusual place

To fix:
yum install libpcap libpcap-devel

After that you have to copy  <snort-2.8.1>/etc/snort.conf …

i had a wierd problem with my bind dns server which will not resolve the domain name with www. it works perfectly well, when i type http://domain.com without www in the browser it gets resolves to my IP address.

My zone file looks like this

$ttl 38400
domain.com. IN SOA ns1.domain.com. webmaster.domain.com. (
1211542287
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
domain.com. IN A …