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img {
  max-width: 100%;
  height: auto;
}

Those lines tell browsers that the maximum width of an image when it is displayed within the user's browser shoud be no wider than the page's width as it is displayed within that browser on that device. I added the "height: auto;" to ensure that when images are resized that the height is also adjusted to maintain the height to width ration of the original image. Otherwise, some images might be distorted so that the image height would be much greater in relation to its width than in the original image. With the auto setting, the height to width balance remains such that the image fits within the displayed page without appearing elongated.

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echo ' ', empty($settings['site_slogan']) ? '<img id="smflogo" src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/smflogo.png" alt="Simple Machines Forum" title="Simple Machines Forum" />' : '<div id="siteslogan" class="floatright">' . $settings['site_slogan'] . '</div>', ' </div>

I removed the code starting with empty and extending through the first '</div>'. I.e., I deleted the following code:

, empty($settings['site_slogan']) ? '<img id="smflogo" src="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/smflogo.png" alt="Simple Machines Forum" title="Simple Machines Forum" />' : '<div id="siteslogan" class="floatright">' . $settings['site_slogan'] . '</div>', '

The empty function in the PHP code checks whether the variable $settings['site_slogan'] is empty. If it is then the question mark ternary operator results in the logo image being displayed. If the variable is not empty, it creates a div section in the code where the value of site_slogan is displayed from the array settings. Since the site owner didn't have a site slogan and didn't want the image, I removed the code.

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<a href="#" _fcksavedurl="#" class="yukari"><img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/24xml1i.png" _fcksavedurl="http://i43.tinypic.com/24xml1i.png" border="0" title="Yukarı" /></a>

Instead of the referenced image appearing, a large image with the message "The image is no longer available appeared" on it appeared. I found the original image at the WayBack Machine from a web crawl performed by the WayBack Machine on November 17, 2018. It was just an upward pointing arrow within a circle with some decorative elements around the circle, so I could easily substitute another image for it—clicking on the image within the theme resulted in the page being redisplayed, but putting the viewer at the top of the page again if the viewer had scrolled down the page. But I wondered why the "_fcksavedurl=" was referenced. It is apparently because the code was edited with the the CKEditor WYSIWYG editor - see "_fcksavedurl?". The CKEditor was first released in 2003 as FCKeditor according to the Wikipedia CKEditor page. I changed both references to the prior image to point to the new image I placed in the "images" subdirectory for the theme where the problem occurred.

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To change the background color for a terminal session using the PuTTY ssh and telnet program, take the following steps:

1. If you wish to change the color for a saved session, load the session then click on "Colours," which is beneath "Window," in the left hand pane of the PuTTY Configuration window.

   

2. Click on "Default Background"; you should then see the default Red Green Blue (RGB) values with values of 0,0,0 representing black and 255, 255, 255 representing white. You can use an RGB Color Codes Chart, such as the one at RapidTables.com to select a color and then obtain its numerical RGB value. For instance, if I wanted the background to be a dark gray, I could use a value of 64 for red, green, and blue.

   

3. You can then click on the Open button to open a session using the new background color or click on "Session" and save the session with the new setting, if you wish to make the setting permanent before opening the session.

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Yesterday, I installed Fail2Ban on a CentOS 7 server after noticing SSH break-in attempts by password guessing. Today, I checked the fail2ban log to see how many IP addresses were banned and whether after being banned for an hour there were any subsequent password guessing attempts from the same IP address. I saw that 40 IP addresses had been banned since I installed Fail2Ban last night and that some of those addresses had been banned multiple times. You can count the number of times an IP address has been banned by using the awk command awk '($(NF-1) = /Ban/){print $NF}' /var/log/fail2ban.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n. You can pipe the output of that command to the wc command wc -l to count the total number of lines which tells you the number of IP addresses that have been banned as explained at Fail2ban logging.

[root@moonpoint ~]# awk '($(NF-1) = /Ban/){print $NF}' /var/log/fail2ban.log | s
ort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 103.50.219.194
      1 104.200.134.181
      1 104.244.77.37
      1 107.189.14.174
      1 107.189.14.230
      1 107.189.14.41
      1 107.189.1.96
      1 107.189.31.223
      1 107.189.8.233
      1 183.157.169.70
      1 183.195.121.197
      1 205.185.123.33
      1 205.185.124.131
      1 209.141.42.29
      1 221.131.165.50
      1 221.131.165.56
      1 221.181.185.151
      1 221.181.185.198
      1 222.186.30.112
      1 222.187.254.41
      1 64.225.49.153
      1 71.9.165.219
      2 104.244.76.64
      2 107.189.12.163
      2 209.141.36.75
      2 209.141.40.64
      2 221.131.165.65
      2 222.186.30.76
      2 222.187.232.39
      3 107.189.13.104
      3 45.61.184.115
      3 70.62.137.84
      4 187.149.76.88
      4 189.85.145.113
      4 205.185.122.239
      4 209.141.57.74
      4 210.73.207.44
      4 222.186.42.137
      5 209.141.34.165
      5 89.211.207.62
[root@moonpoint ~]# awk '($(NF-1) = /Ban/){print $NF}' /var/log/fail2ban.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l
40
[root@moonpoint ~]#

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While checking on a problem on a test CentOS Linux system today, I issued the command journalctl -xe from the root account to get more details on the problem. Among the results displayed was an indication of attempts to break into the system by guesses for the password of the root account on the system.

# journalctl -xe
Oct 23 16:20:23 moonpoint systemd[1]: Unit mariadb.service entered failed state.
Oct 23 16:20:23 moonpoint systemd[1]: mariadb.service failed.
Oct 23 16:20:23 moonpoint polkitd[1684]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for u
Oct 23 16:21:35 moonpoint sshd[4558]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failur
Oct 23 16:21:35 moonpoint sshd[4558]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "ui
Oct 23 16:21:37 moonpoint sshd[4558]: Failed password for root from 221.131.165.
Oct 23 16:21:38 moonpoint sshd[4558]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "ui
Oct 23 16:21:40 moonpoint sshd[4558]: Failed password for root from 221.131.165.
Oct 23 16:21:40 moonpoint sshd[4558]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "ui
Oct 23 16:21:42 moonpoint sshd[4558]: Failed password for root from 221.131.165.
Oct 23 16:21:42 moonpoint sshd[4558]: Received disconnect from 221.131.165.50 po
Oct 23 16:21:42 moonpoint sshd[4558]: Disconnected from 221.131.165.50 port 4518
Oct 23 16:21:42 moonpoint sshd[4558]: PAM 2 more authentication failures; lognam
Oct 23 16:21:55 moonpoint sshd[4561]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failur
Oct 23 16:21:55 moonpoint sshd[4561]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "ui
Oct 23 16:21:57 moonpoint sshd[4561]: Failed password for root from 221.131.165.
Oct 23 16:21:57 moonpoint sshd[4561]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "ui
Oct 23 16:21:59 moonpoint sshd[4561]: Failed password for root from 221.131.165.
Oct 23 16:21:59 moonpoint sshd[4561]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): requirement "ui
Oct 23 16:22:01 moonpoint sshd[4561]: Failed password for root from 221.131.165.
Oct 23 16:22:02 moonpoint sshd[4561]: Received disconnect from 221.131.165.50 po
Oct 23 16:22:02 moonpoint sshd[4561]: Disconnected from 221.131.165.50 port 4175
Oct 23 16:22:02 moonpoint sshd[4561]: PAM 2 more authentication failures; lognam
[root@moonpoint ~]#

When I checked the number of password guesses the attacker had tried by searching for the IP address in /var/log/secure, I found 183 attempts to log in.

[root@moonpoint ~]# grep "221.131.165.50" /var/log/secure | grep -c "Failed password"
183
[root@moonpoint ~]#

When I checked the location for the IP address 221.131.165.50 with the geoiplookup program, a program that is provided by the GeoIP package, I found the address allocated to an entity in China:

[root@moonpoint ~]# geoiplookup 221.131.165.50
GeoIP Country Edition: CN, China
[root@moonpoint ~]#

A check of the IP address on DShield at showed that IP address has been associated with many attempts at unauthorized access to systems by password guessing - see SSH Source Summary. The DShield IP Info: 221.131.165.50 report for the system currently lists 82,133 reports with 283 targets with activity first reported on 2021-09-26.

When I ran the journalctl command again later, I saw evidence of attempts from other IP addresses to gain unauthorized access to the system via SSH, so I installed fail2ban to automatically block IP addresses when a specific number of failed SSH login attempts have been detected from IP addresses.

Related

1. Blocking SSH break-in attempts with fail2ban
   Date: October 23, 2021
2. Finding which package provided a file on a CentOS Linux system
   Date: October 23, 2021
3. Fail2ban Logging
   Date: April 9, 2016

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1. Click the star with the 3 horizontal lines on it at the top, right corner of the Edge browser window which is used to access your favorite websites.
2. Click the ellipsis, i.e., the "...", at the top, right corner of the browser window and select Import Favorites.
3. Change "import from" to "Mozilla Firefox" and then click on Import after deselecting other options, if there are some things like saved passwords that you don't want to import. If you want to import all of the items selected by default, just click on Import.
4. When you see "All done," you can click on the Done button and you can then close the tab (Ctrl-W is one way to close it).

To view the imported bookmarks, click on the star with 3 lines on it to access the Edge favorites, which are akin to the Firefox bookmarks. You will see "Other favorites" listed under Favorites; you can click on the arrowhead to the left of "Other favorites" to see your imported bookmarks.

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<details>
<summary>Overview</summary>
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1865 when South Carolina
militia forces attacked Fort Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina. 
The war effectively ended on April 9, 1865 with the surrender by
Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, but
the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, did not declare an
end to the insurrection until May 9, 1865. Each side in the
conflict suffered over 800,000 casualties. The principal cause of the
conflict was the issue of slavery within the United States with abolitionists
in the North viewing the practice as a crime against humanity while Southern
slave owners viewed it as a necessary evil or, for some defenders of slavery,
even as a positive good, which they feared would be eliminated under the
recently elected President Abraham Lincoln.
</details>

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1. Within the Book Collector program, click on Clz Cloud on the menu bar at the top of the program window.
2. Select Synchronize.
3. Click on View my collection in CLZ Cloud if you wish to view the books stored in the copy of the database in the CLZ Cloud in a webpage in your default browser before deleting everything in that version, then click on the Clear CLZ Cloud button at the bottom of the program window to remove all book entries from the version of the database stored in the cloud.
4. You should then see zero cloud changes to be downloaded.

   

   If you wish to then synchronize your local copy of the database to a copy stored in the cloud, you can click on Sync Changes. When you do so you should see "sending items to cloud." Be prepared to wait a few minutes for the synchronization operation to complete if you have a large number of books in your Book Collector database. You will see the number of "Adds/Edits" decrease to zero as books are uploaded. When the process is complete you will see the message "Finished syncing changes. Would you like to view your collection in CLZ Cloud?"

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I wanted to be able to obtain information on a monitor attached to a Windows 10 desktop system, including the manufacturer, model number, serial number, and date of manufacture, from a command-line interface (CLI). One way to do that is by using PowerShell, which Microsoft provides as part of its Windows operating system. You can open a PowerShell window on a Microsoft Windows 10 system by typing PowerShell in the "Type here to search" field at the bottom of the Windows display. You should see the Windows PowerShell app listed as an option you can click on to open a PowerShell window. If you type gwmi WmiMonitorID -Namespace root\wmi at the prompt and hit enter, you will see information similar to the following output displayed.

PS C:\> gwmi WmiMonitorID -Namespace root\wmi


__GENUS                : 2
__CLASS                : WmiMonitorID
__SUPERCLASS           : MSMonitorClass
__DYNASTY              : MSMonitorClass
__RELPATH              : WmiMonitorID.InstanceName="DISPLAY\\HPN360C\\5&2c03a83e&0&UID262_0"
__PROPERTY_COUNT       : 9
__DERIVATION           : {MSMonitorClass}
__SERVER               : YTTERBIUM
__NAMESPACE            : root\wmi
__PATH                 : \\YTTERBIUM\root\wmi:WmiMonitorID.InstanceName="DISPLAY\\HPN360C\\5&2c03a83e&0&UID262_0"
Active                 : True
InstanceName           : DISPLAY\HPN360C\5&2c03a83e&0&UID262_0
ManufacturerName       : {72, 80, 78, 0...}
ProductCodeID          : {51, 54, 48, 67...}
SerialNumberID         : {67, 78, 75, 48...}
UserFriendlyName       : {72, 80, 32, 51...}
UserFriendlyNameLength : 13
WeekOfManufacture      : 12
YearOfManufacture      : 2020
PSComputerName         : YTTERBIUM



PS C:\>

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Then click on the Excel Options button and select the Save option. The checkbox for "Save AutoRecover information every" should be checked. You can then change the frequency from 10 minutes to a more frequent number; I chose to have Excel automatically save a document every 5 minutes.

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1. Select Devices.
2. Select Printers & scanners.
3. Click on Canon TR8500 series.
4. Click on Manage.
5. Click on the View Printer Status button.

You can then see the level of ink in the magenta (M), black (BK), yellow (Y), Black (PGBK), and Cyan (C) cartridges.

If you are near the printer, you can also check the ink levels from the front panel of the printer by touching the Setup icon, which looks like a gear, on the home screen of the front panel. Then tap "Estimated ink levels" on the panel. You will then see the estimated ink levels for each cartridge displayed. If the ink is depleted or near depletion in a cartridge, there will be a red circle with a white "X" in it dispalyed over the cartridge.

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