HOW TO : Capture network traffic on a Solaris server
If you don’t have tcpdump installed on your solaris server, you can use the “snoop” system command to capture network traffic. Here is the command line...
HOW TO : Get HDD performance stats in Linux
quick note for self hdparm -tT /dev/sdx sdx : actual device you want to test
HOW TO : Use awk to print values larger than certain number
Quick how to on using awk to filter results if a certain value (column) is larger than a set value. For example, if you have a...
HOW TO : Parse IP Address in Windows Batch File
We had a recent challenge at work which required us to execute different actions based on which office a particular workstation was located in. Since we...
Update 1 : Application Development : domainScan
Following up from my post earlier this month regarding building a security application that scans publicly available data (Google) and report on potential information leakage from...
HOW TO : Search for a record in MongoDB based on length
Quick entry for my own records. MongoDB is one of the popular open source document database that is part of the nosql movement. One of the...