25Jun 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

When am I getting Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich aka ICS) on my phone?

Android
The most frequent question I have been asked lately is when is my HTC Blah Blah model getting Android's Ice Cream Sandwich? (aka ICS aka Android 4.0) Here is an official note by HTC on when your phone will get the update. Please note that generally its observed that some devices may get updates after 45days of the period announced in Pakistan. So be patient and try the official updates once they roll out.
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01Jun 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Angry Imran game for Android (inspired by the popular Angry Birds)

Reviews
[caption id="attachment_1191" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Angry Imran Android app"][/caption] Angry Imran (Android Game) is a copy of the popular game Angry Birds The description reads Imran's Tsunami in the Android Store! Angry Imran is a game whose main theme is inspired from Angry Birds. This v1.0 (beta) is the result of a request from a group of friends. It is a tribute to the emerging leader of Pakistan, Mr. Imran Khan. So take on the driving seat and help him in his TSUNAMI of Revolution. *Brain freeze does not have any political affiliations with any party* I gave the game a test drive and while its no where near as good as Angry Birds game, we should not underestimate the potential of this game. I am pretty sure that this "10+…
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31May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Writer on LowEndBox

Personal
After waiting for almost two months, my account has finally been upgraded by Chief (the new admin of LowEndBox) to give me privileges to post offers without waiting for someone to approve them. Approx 2 months ago, I applied and was given the opportunity to write for LowEndBox as a test writer. During this time, I wrote the following posts on LowEndBox OnePoundWebHosting – £4.40 512MB Xen VPS in UK EaseVPS – $3.99/Month, 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Manchester, Jacksonville & Kansas City Corgi Tech – $6 512MB VMWare VPS in UK Jolly Works Hosting – $15/Year 128MB OpenVZ VPS in Phoenix sshVM – $6/Quarter 128MB OpenVZ VPS IperWeb – €1.52/Month 192MB OpenVZ VPS in Italy InceptionHosting – €6/Quarter 128MB XEN PV VPS in Phoenix and Netherlands WHMCS Hacked, Client data…
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27May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to find specific files and send alerts

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu
Maintaining a shared hosting server is a full time job but tools and proper checks and balances can help make this burden lot less. I manage a shared hosting server for one of my friends and numerous times the scripts that people have installed over on their websites have vulnerabilities and hackers exploit it to upload stuff that mass-email or do other nasty stuff. Luckily, most of these exploits have common patterns like files names or other signatures that make them traceable (most of the time the so called hackers are just kiddy scripts) Create a file and put this in it [code]#!/bin/bash find /home -name 'paypal.com*' | mail -s '[Woodcrest] Phishing Alert!' me@mydomain.com find /home -name 'rout.php' | mail -s '[Woodcrest] Phishing Alert - Mail Bomber!' me@mydomain.com[/code] This is…
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26May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

package-cleanup: command not found

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tips and Tricks
I tried to do package-cleanup and found this [code highlight="2"]root@ns1 [~]# package-cleanup --problems -bash: package-cleanup: command not found[/code] If I was on Ubuntu, I would have done "apt-get install package-cleanup" but it does not work that way on CentOS, its actually available in yum-utils package, install it by typing [code]yum install yum-utils[/code] Enjoy!!
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25May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to configure repos to not overwrite base packages?

CentOS, How to, Linux
The greatest fear with adding additional and especially third party repos such as EPEL (we did a blog post on how to install EPEL earlier) is that it MAY overwrite base packages and bring the system to an unstable state. We can fix this issue by installing Yum Priorities plugin on CentOS 5: [code]yum install yum-priorities[/code] on CentOS 4 or CentOS 6: [code]yum install yum-plugin-priorities[/code] Then make sure that the plugin is enabled [code]nano /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf[/code] Now there are two ways to do it, either set HIGHEST priority to CentOS repos OR set lowest priority to other repos. This is done by adding the line [code highlight="3"] # N=1 highest priority # N=99 lowest priority priority=N [/code] In this blog post, I will set 1 as the priority (highest) for my…
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23May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to change time and/or timezone in CentOS

CentOS, How to, Linux
Generically, I use this Change directory to /etc [code] [root@testbed ~]# cd /etc [/code] Now create a symbolic link (aka symlink) to the timezone e.g. Asia/Karachi (for Pakistan standard time) [code highlight="1"] [root@testbed etc]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Karachi localtime [root@testbed etc]# date Mon Jan 16 19:26:52 PKT 2012 [/code] Please note that the timezone is following a directory-structure so if you want EST time, you should use [code highlight="1"] [root@testbed etc]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST localtime [/code]
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22May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 8 Comments

WHMCS Hacked, 1.7GB of data posted online

News
Ok, so I didn't had enough time and information to blog this but most of you already know it that WHMCS got hacked yesterday. We have a long LET thread here. I was expecting this to get fixed soon hence I created a Video and uploaded on Youtube (later it was clear that my initial idea was wrong, it took much longer for WHMCS to come back online on its feet before getting hacked for the second time) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlf-HBPXK8 Hackers released about 1.7GB of data on pasteBin note (unsure whats with pastebin but every hacker seem to be doing that) [caption id="attachment_1177" align="aligncenter" width="556" caption="UGNazi Tweet mentioning WHMCS hacked files"][/caption] (more…)
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22May 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to disable SELinux

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tips and Tricks
SELINUX is a security feature on CentOS but some software such as SolusVM will require that SELINUX be disabled [code] Installation log : /tmp/install.log Add this slave to your SolusVM master using the following details: ID Key .......... : ABC ID Password ..... : XYZ IMPORTANT!! You need to setup a network bridge before you can use KVM on this server. Please see the following link: http://wiki.solusvm.com/index.php/KVM_Network_Bridge_Setup Please set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config before rebooting. Thankyou for choosing SolusVM. [/code] The solution? 1) Edit /etc/selinux/config using your favourite editor [code][root@kvm ~]# nano /etc/selinux/config[/code] and set SELINUX=disabled [code highlight="6"]# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings…
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