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Secure your LAN

[caption id="attachment_3824" align="alignright" width="300" caption="lan security"][/caption] In thi short tutorial where you will come to know the basics of LAN security. As far as LAN security is concerned firewalls, anti-viruses play an important role in it. Viruses can affect your pc or your entire network. Hence it is very important to ...

Renaming USB Drive Labels in Linux

[caption id="attachment_3770" align="alignright" width="425" caption="Rename your usb drive in linux"][/caption] There, you got all the inspirations from the web and your friends and have now Linux proudly running on your system. (Linux is the kernel, ya ya I know you got it). Your friend approaches you to help him get rid ...

Linux file system explained for beginers

For those of you coming from windows backgrounds, the way the linux filesystem is laid out may seem confusing at first glance.... but that is where this article comes in ! The first thing you should know when working with linux, is that everything is treated as either a file or ...

Creating iso images in linux

In windows XP, you would most probably use DVD/CD burning software such as Nero or DeepBurner to make iso images, and software like alcohol 120% or daemon tools to mount the images. In linux, you can use the commandline to both make and mount iso images. Firstly, the program 'dd' which comes ...

Linux security

[caption id="attachment_3792" align="alignright" width="328" caption="Linux Security"][/caption] Although linux-based operating systems are considerably safer when compared to Windows and Mac OSX, there are still steps that you can take to ensure that your linux box stays safe and protected. In this post I will illustrate a few techniques you can use to ...

What exactly is Linux?

We are glad to introduce Karuna, new author on GH. He will write on topics realted to linux regularly. We hope you will find his articles useful and interesting. [caption id="attachment_3742" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Linux is not Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse"][/caption] Most people look at Distros like Ubuntu and Fedora and Slackware ...

How To | Installing Windows XP and Ubuntu through pendrive

This tutorial will teach you how to create a bootable windows XP/ubuntu(any linux) pen drive and install XP/ubuntu(any linux) using this bootable pen drive. Why would anyone want to install Windows XP from a pen drive?? May be their CD drive isn't working properly like mine, or They don't want to waste money ...

GeniusHackers.Com new look

[caption id="attachment_3698" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Old versus New :P"][/caption] Hello folks, We just changed the look of GeniusHackers, to make it more clean , clutter free and user friendly. We also added recent posts and popular posts in tabbed format on the top of very post to make it easy to find latest ...

15+ reasons why i hate Apple and why iPod touch sucks

[caption id="attachment_3638" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Apple sucks big time"][/caption] Apple is generally known for their innovation and for designing user friendly products ( atleast they claim). They innovate complex features and forget some simple, common and must have features. I bought a ipod touch 3 months back. I was too lazy to ...

Networking basics | Routers and switches

First of all "What is a router ?" [caption id="attachment_3374" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="router"][/caption] Router is a device that transfers data packets along different networks. Not necessary that the network is bounded with wires. It can also be a wireless network. Routers are placed at gateways. Gateway is a place where two or ...