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I'm still struggling at this point to get correct info to make some of these menus work. Those in bold work. -- default menu.c32 prompt 0 timeout 300 ONTIMEOUT local menu title # PXE Boot Menu # label 1 menu label (^1) Install pmagic32 kernel pmagic/bzImage INITRD pmagic/initrd.img,pmagic/fu.img,pmagic/m32.img,pmagic/files.cgz APPEND edd=on vga=normal label 2 menu label ...  PXE Menu Issues and ISO Boot File Problems

Getting a PXE server going in Linux has never been that easy, as there were/are so many options for doing it for the uninitiated. It still took me a big recap and head scratching after a few years since doing it, and now things aren't much easier, even if there are some recent, better How ...  Mint as a PXE Server for PartedMagic and Multi OSs

* NB: Test this rigorously for reliability before implementation in a critical environment! See Post end of page. For education only, due to transfer disconnection hassle factor.* *1/8/15 May work better after a firmware upgrade ------------ This turned out a very useful, fun and informative Post! A cheap and dirty NAS solution for home or ...  Setup and Access a 1TB FAT32 USB Share on a Draytek Router

If you want to "crack on" with checking the strength of your own passwords, and you have a test box and plenty of time on your/it's hands/cpu - read the tut here: https://linuxconfig.org/password-cracking-with-john-the-ripper-on-linux As passwords are such an important part of everyday IT experience, I want to look at some of the basics of what ...  Basic Maths and Ideas Behind Password Complexity

Linux has thousands of applications and programmes available to it, some are fundamental to its operation as part of the base system, and most are optional additions that can be added as required by the user. So how many are there and how can you find out what each does or what it depends on ...  Linux Commands + Packages – How Many, and What For?

The GCHQ guys inc. Clifford Cox finally get a mention as the original secret inventors of RSA: ISCW_Cryptography_and_VPNs_OU_template_v1.ppt

Continuing from the last Post, I want look at dd_rescue... Simply, it recovers data blocks as small as 512k in fwd or rev directions to maximise the potential for reading bad sectors. If it can't, it continues on without quitting to the next sector, writing zeros in place of the corruption, which may mean possible ...  Cool Cmd #6 – dd_rescue

Example using a phone SIM card. In Windows, a deleted file from such flash type media does not go into the Recycle Bin so is "lost" immediately no?  The card is /dev/sdf1 in this case. Let's look at it with some Linux tools... # cfdisk /dev/sdf  cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.13.1.1)  Disk Drive: /dev/sdf  Size: 249823232 bytes, ...  File Recovery with TestDisk + Photorec

Protect Your Data and PC ***** For more of Business/Corporate level security understanding of legal requirements for Data Protection see this PowerPoint: Introduction_to_Security.ppt For Server 2003/other(?), the ONLY FREE AV software I know that will run on it is Immunet - that will remove/quarantine files also. https://www.immunet.com/ ClamAV for Windows is a scanner - it ...  Recover Your Data and PC

Because there are so many aspects to overall system security management that have to be considered, basic security protocols and definitions have been established to enable a structured, more modular approach to separating and simplifying the many complex and often overlapping areas involved in security issues, so that forms of system protection could be researched, ...  Basic Security Concepts – Principles For Any System or OS

After reading a lot of William Shott´s free TLCL.pdf here: TLCL-13.07.pdf I finally found a working (but incomplete) version of the script that produces an html page of the system status for the parameters he programmed in this BASH script lesson from his book and blog page here: https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_wss0120.php It looks like this: The slightly ...  William Shotts SysInfo.html Creator Script

This isn't really Linux stuff directly, but is PHP and HTML coding related and found in some scripts like Apache confs maybe, so good to understand a little if you have never done an old fashioned HTML web page before. Having spent a lot of time on Blog stuff lately, I thought I would put ...  Simple WordPress CSS Text Size and Color Tweaks

Cool Cmd #3 Rsync man rsync DESCRIPTION Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon. It offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behaviour and permit very flexible specification of the ...  Cool Command #3 Rsync

(Amended 18 Sept 2015) sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb bs=512 conv=sync,noerror status=progress For an insight into using the best Block Size values when copying to/from different media types, and using DD in general, read this link FIRST - see the quotes to get some perspective and optimise your copying time: https://blog.tdg5.com/tuning-dd-block-size/ "Let's start off with a ...  Cool Command #1 – DD with Progress

I have an Acer 4520 laptop from 2008 that came with Vista originally, installed in the 10GB hidden D2D recovery partition. I have used Win7 64 instead for the last 4 years as Vista was generally slow and awful as everyone knows, and we got Win7 cheap as college students, so I had wiped the ...  Re-install Win 7 With No DVD and Replace Laptop Auto Recovery Partition