This is one of those random things I do and decided to put it in the website. I know that my personal computer is running on HDD, but when I am logged into a remote Linux system and suddenly I started wondering about how to determine if the underlying disk …
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[Updated] darodar.com referrer spam and should you be worried?
I had some interesting traffic showing up in my Google Analytics today. So far I’ve seen 21 referral traffic from forum.topic44122300.darodar.com to my home page http://www.blackmoreops.com/. Readers, I highly recommend reading comments section for more views and details. Making comments doesn’t require registration in this site, so you can leave …
Read More »Random quotes and creatures using fortune and cowsay in Linux terminal
fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, …
Read More »Fixing error: Package packagename is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package ‘packagename’ has no installation candidate
A common error in Linux A very common error in Linux; well, most Debian based Linux distributions such as Debian itself, Ubuntu, Kali, Linux Mint has this error when trying to install a package/application “Package packagename is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that …
Read More »Fixing ProxyChains ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libproxychains.so.3’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Nullsec posted on – November 29, 2014 at 7:53 pm regarding ProxyChains giving an error: ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libproxychains.so.3’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Essentially, this might expose you. Following fix was also posted by NullSec, ‘Thank you‘. (I’ve only formatted his comment to make it more user-readable!) ProxyChains …
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