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Cloud and information technology performance capabilities continue to expand, and security for this technology must grow alongside. Hackers, phishers, and identity thieves all pose significant risks, but one of the most significant growing threats in the eyes of IT professionals is the recent information about National Security Agency data collection and monitoring. The industry is scrambling to ensure security in a heightened time of paranoia. Data security in the cloud is one of the platforms that need protection.

Instructions to a user to manage Minecraft server:

1.       Login via ssh.

a.       Download an ssh client like putty.exe (http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe)

b.      After the download is complete run the putty application.

c.       In the “Host Name (or IP address) field enter the IP address provided above.

d.      In the “Saved Session” field enter a name to refer to this server as and click “Save.”

e.      The saved details will now be available under the name you gave it each time you run the software.

f.        Click the name you gave it and click “Open” to launch the connection.

g.       The first time you connect you will be prompted to approve the security, click “Yes.”

h.      You will then be prompted for a username, type “root” and hit enter. This username is case sensitive. (your mouse does not work in this interface)

i.         You will then be prompted for a password, type the password provided in the server details email and hit enter. This password is case sensitive.

j.        You are now logged in

2.       Type ”./start” to start the server.

3.       To add your Minecraft user as an administrator of the Minecraft server type “op username.”

4.       You can now connect to the server with your Minecraft client software.

a.       Open the Minecraft executable you downloaded when you created a Minecraft account at Minecraft.net (https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/Minecraft.exe)

b.      Enter the username and password provided to you when you purchased your account with Minecraft.net.

c.       Select to “Remember Password” if you’re on a private computer and don’t want to retype the password each time you log in.

d.      Click “Login” and then select the “Multiplayer” option.

e.      Click “Add Server” and type any name for the “Server Name” field, this is what it will appear as when you open the client not the server.

f.        Type the IP address provided in your server details email as the “Server Address.”

g.       Click “Done, and it will return you to a page that lists all of the servers you have saved.

h.      Click the name you gave the server and then “Join Server.” It should connect you to your Minecraft server.

i.         You can issue additional moderator (operator) commands in the typing fields from the client by typing “/” before the commands.

i.      For example “/op username” would give that username operator right.

ii.      For example “/ban username” would ban that user from connecting to your server.

5.       From the ssh interface (CLI – command line interface) type “help” for local commands that can issue at the server.

6.       Other commands with similar format are “stop,” “deop,” “ban,” “game mode” (0 for standard 1 for creative).

7.       To rollback, the world to a previously saved version, stop the game and type “./rollback.” Hourly backups for the last 30 days, or however long the server has been active) should be displayed.

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If you regularly work with scripts on any Unix or Linux platform and it gets killed when you log out from ssh, the session dies or the scripts stop working after x time then you need to down it and fork it to the background.
So instead of running
/your/script/filename
run
nohup /your/script/filename &
What this does is start the script, the nohup downs the scripts (meaning that it has no owner so you can log out without killing the process) and the & at the end sends the process to the background. This is the alternative method to run something from within screen but this version works well with a crontab.
FYI the crontab is a file and a program (both named the same) that executes commands (opening files, sending email, any command that you could do via the regular shell) at specific interval or times.
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So, you’ve installed Ubuntu 11.10 and found out that it’s all gone and replaced by what seems to be too good of a qualificative of a sidebar and what appears to be a poignant attempt to kill all interest on an open source Operating System. Fear not as we can still make the best of it.
Ubuntu desktop had a very easy, kind interface since the times of 7.04, about 4 years ago, the menu on the top, bar on the bottom, happy explorer on the chair, never a miscommunication, yet this has been replaced by a mac-os-ish-windows-7 look. To get rid of this, follow this guide that I’ve just re-checked for you:

If a downgrade to PHP 5.2 is needed do the following:

1. The repositories for Centos 6 do not include old packages (another reason to stick with 5.6) so we need to pull all packages needed.
Therefore we access the server, create a folder there (mkdir php) and then enter that folder (cd php)

2. Once inside we need to download all packages needed; One trusted source is this: http://www6.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/centos/6/x86_64/RPMS/
Once you have opened that on your browser, search for all php- .rpm files that are for your Centos version, there is 32 and 32+64 bits, to know the correct one do a uname –a at the server, if you see it says x86_64 then make sure that all .rpm files you download have that on their names, then

wget them to the server:
Wget http://www6.atomicorp.com/…/RPMS/php-5.2.x.x.x.x.rpm
Once you have downloaded all files that begin with php- proceed to install the following files:
Yum install Automake autoconf libt1*
**make sure to add that ^ asterisk too

3. Once completed then type: rpm –oldpackage -Uvh php*

4. When done, type php –v to check the version, it should say 5.2 – Done

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Simple HTTP server

1. Make sure your port 8000 is open
Nano /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Copy any of the rules (ctrl +K is cut, ctrl+U is paste) and swap the port for 8000, save and close
Service iptables restart
2. Go to the folder you want to share
cd /to/any/folder/you/want
3. Fire up the server
python –m SimpleHTTPServer
or
python -m http.server
4. Go to http://yourip:8000
Further information:
This will act as a regular apache server, if on that folder is an index.html file, it will be displayed, otherwise, a list of the files on that folder will be shown.
To stop the server just press Ctrl + C
To send the process to the background add a & symbol at the very end of any of the python commands
Otherwise, press Ctrl + Z and then type bg and enter
To stop the process when the above has been done just type:
Ps aux | grep python
Look for the first group of 4 or 5 digits and then type
Kill #####