tcptraceroute, A way to make traceroutes with firewalls in the middle of the path

Traceroute works sending ICMP packets to all the routers in the way to the destination host, but these days more and more routers and server have the ICMP packets filtered, so here is where tcptraceroute comes to save the day.

As you may guess from its name tcptraceroute is like traceroute but sends tcp packets instead [...]

How to open winrar files with Linux

To open RAR (those created with winrar) you will need unrar. There are lots of sites now providing files packaged under the rar format.So you will need first to install unrar on your systems and therefore be able to list content and unpack the files into your hard disk to be able to work [...]

How to create your own Linux live CD easy way!

A LiveCD is an operating system along with useful apps stored on a bootable CD-ROM / DVD disk. You can run complete operating system without installation on a hard disk. I often use Knoppix Live CD for troubleshooting, fixing computers and testing new hardware.
This article talks about generating your customized Linux distribution using NimbleX Live [...]

Run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same PC

I have a laptop and a desktop. I am using Internet Exporer 7 on my laptop and Internet Explorer 6 on my desktop. I didn’t want to update my desktop’s IE6 to IE7 because when I install IE7, it is going to replace IE6 with it. So I can only have one version of [...]
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