Chrome/Firefox – Open Multiple Tabs from Command/Batch File
KB ID 0000713 Problem I know all modern browsers can open multiple ‘Home Pages’ at startup, but that’s not what I wanted. There are a few tech sites that I visit once a day, and they are all in my bookmarks. I tediously click each one to visit these sites. So I thought ‘There must be a way of opening all these sites, at once, from a batch file or a single command?” I use Chrome as my browser of...
Chrome – Deleting Cookies
KB ID 0000756 Problem It took me twenty minutes to find out how to delete a cookie for a single site today. All the information I found was for older versions of Chrome, that had the ‘Under the bonnet’ section. Solution 1. As shown open the browser settings. 2. Show advanced settings. 3. Scroll down to the Privacy section > Content Settings. 4. All cookies and data. 5. Here you can simply “Remove All” to...
Stop Google Chrome Opening as a Windows App
KB ID 0000986 Problem I don’t know what I managed to click to enable this, or if it was simply an update, but I don’t like it at all. Solution 1. As indicated above, open the Chrome ‘Customise and Control Google Chrome’ settings > Select ‘Relaunch Chrome on the the desktop’. 2. That’s better, back to normal. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA...
Linux (CentOS) Securing and Hardening SSH / Shell Access
KB ID 0000881 Problem The following is by no means an extensive list of everything that can be done. It’s just a run though of what I would consider ‘good practice’. Solution Create a user for SSH and Remove Shell access for the ‘root’ user. 1. Connect to the server via SSH or open a terminal session and su to root. Create a new user then set and confirm the new users password. useradd {username} passwd...
CentOS (RHEL) Installing VMware Tools in ESX
KB ID 0000888 Problem This was a much more complicated job than I expected it to be! The following procedure is done on CentOS 6, so will be the same for Red Hat Enterprise 6. Solution 1. Connect to the server via SSH, (or open a terminal session). Logon as, (or su to) root. 2. Execute the following commands; yum install make gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers perl mkdir /mnt/cdrom 3. Then present the VMware tools CD to the...