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How To: User Signup, Email Activation and Login in MySQL and PHP

How To: User Signup, Email Activation and Login in MySQL and PHP

Many websites use a system of user verification that requires anyone who signs up (registers) to provide an email address, and then click a link sent to them to 'activate' their account. In this tutorial, we'll cover the basic logic and creation of such a system using PHP and MySQL. At the end, we'll have a working activation system and we'll have learned a little bit about web programming along the way!

Posted by Will - January 20th '20

The 2007 Estonian Cyber Incident: A Digital People's War

The 2007 Estonian Cyber Incident: A Digital People's War

In April of 2007, the relocation of a controversial statue in Estonia touched off weeks of cyber attacks against the technologically sophisticated Baltic state. Long-standing animosity between Estonia and Russia went cyber, publicly outing the nation state as a major cyber force, and unequivocally demonstrating major discontinuities between traditional, 'kinetic' combat and cyber war.

Posted by Will - January 6th '20

Install Killer AX1650 Drivers and Get WiFi with only a Debian Netinstaller

Install Killer AX1650 Drivers and Get WiFi with only a Debian Netinstaller

In this tutorial, we'll cover manually installing the wifi drivers for the Killer AX1650 network card which do NOT come prepackaged with on the Debain Netinstaller. To do this, we'll need another machine with an internet connection that's running the same Linux kernel we're trying to install. We'll learn a little about Linux networking along the way!

Posted by Will - December 30th '19

Using apache's htaccess to Lock a Directory

Using apache's htaccess to Lock a Directory

Tutorial: Quickly setup a password protected directory served by Apache with htaccess!

Posted by Will - December 23rd '19

Linux Environment Setup 0x05: Integrating mpd into i3status using i3bar

Linux Environment Setup 0x05: Integrating mpd into i3status using i3bar

In this fifth installment of our ongoing Linux tutorial series, we're going to customize our i3 experience by modifying i3bar's output.  We're going to integrate our MPD music backend into i3bar to display our music info in our i3status bar!

Posted by Will - December 16th '19