Author Archives: Fafa

FireEye has been hacked

Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2020 by Fafa

FireEye (cybersecurity firm) said it was hacked and that the attackers stole the tools the company uses to test the defenses of its customers’ computer networks to find potential vulnerabilities The hacking was discovered in recent weeks, when suspicious access … Continue reading →

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Venus

Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2020 by Fafa

Lately I’ve been interested in astronomy; I am absolutely a beginner Here is the hottest planet in the solar system: Venus! (photo taken with an Iphone).

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New mac osx vulnerabilities

Posted on Wednesday June 6th, 2018 by Fafa

A new patch , the Security Update 2018-003, has recently been released on 1st june, which would fix some vulnerabilities afflicting Mac OS X High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan. Such vulnerabilities would allow, for example, a local attacker to gain … Continue reading →

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How long ago your Linux system has been installed?

Posted on Saturday May 26th, 2018 by Fafa

Do you need to know when your Linux has been installed? here you have one way i used tune2fs on Arch linux basically command is” sudo tune2fs -l /dev/YOURPARTITION | grep ‘Filesystem created:’ This useful command checking file system data … Continue reading →

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Spectre – Meltdown checker (linux)

Posted on Friday January 12th, 2018 by Fafa

I have just tried on my not so new pc this interesting script: Specter-Meltdown-Checker , as specified also in instructions, it is not a bible, but surely it is something could give you very useful informations – this script give you … Continue reading →

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How to install Debian 9 on Macbook (end 2009) – dual boot

Posted on Thursday August 3rd, 2017 by Fafa

Here how i installed Debian 9 stretch on my old macbook 6,1 (mid 2009) NB: where you’ll see a # before command, means you should be root or need to use sudo. Hardware: Video card NVIDIA  GeForce 9400M with 256 … Continue reading →

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Linux boot speed-up removing slow/useless services

Posted on Sunday April 30th, 2017 by Fafa

Today, after upgrade to Debian Stretch i was looking startup loaded services and system boot-up performances through systemd-analyze* command. Looking results , excluding kernel time(4,5 sec), system took 1 minute and 42 seconds for start; OK , i don’t have an … Continue reading →

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Mamp: a local web server (and not only) with few clicks

Posted on Saturday September 17th, 2016 by Fafa

I needed a local web server for make some .php experiments whitout transfer data to my website and make them in remote. I did not have time for install and configure Apache and Php so i was looking for something … Continue reading →

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FM16 coaching “star” calculator

Posted on Wednesday June 15th, 2016 by Fafa

Game time 🙂 I often play  at FM16 and i lost so much time looking for the best technical staff (4/5 stars) Recently I found somewhere nice formulas to calculate, using the parameters, the number of “stars” and therefore, quality … Continue reading →

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Mac os:How to change dns in a click

Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2015 by Fafa

I needed to use particular dns and would change them quickly (with a click) here is how i did it: First, here command for make modification by terminal: sudo networksetup -setdnsservers <networkservice> DNS1, DNS2, DNS3 How to obtain a list of … Continue reading →

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