Category: Linux Tutorials
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HOWTO: OpenArena Dedicated Sever – Linux
Open Arena is an amazing Open Source arena based first person shooter. It is based on the quake 3 engine, and has a lot of fast gameplay. You are going to need your own server running linux. A shell account will not do, the admin will probably disable your account, and most likely you won’t…
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HOWTO: Slow down and log bruteforce attacks on your Debian system
This howto is going to assume you have a working Debian or Debian based system currently running. It is also intended to be copied and pasted directly into your telnet/ssh window. The package I am going to be using is called fail2ban. Fail2ban scans log files and bans IP addresses that produce too many failed…
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HOWTO: Prevent website bandwidth theft with .htaccess
“Some people can be so ignorant. Nothing aggravates me more than a forum user who hotlinks an image or file from your site on a popular forum, but when webmasters create file repositories, and all of the files are linked from other peoples servers. Without permission. I’m sure there are many ways to prevent these…