Windows 10 is just around the corner, and a lot of users are now ready to upgrade free to the latest and greatest. However, there will be users who are still skeptical about Windows 10 and those who need more time to upgrade.

Many of those users who won't be upgrading immediately may opt to create a dual-boot system to start using Windows 10 alongside Windows 8.1 or Windows 7. After all, this could be considered one of the safest method to test an operating system.

Typically before beginning with a dual-boot setup , users will first need to download the Windows 10 ISO file for either 32-bit or 64-bit architecture from the Microsoft servers. Then they will try to create a bootable media using the "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool", which for a good period worked pretty well.

However, most computers sold today, such as Surface Pro 3, Surface 3, Dell XPS systems, and others, use a new BIOS called UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), which is a standard firmware designed to replace the old BIOS standard.

When you plug in the USB drive with the Windows 10 installation files and boot your computer, you'll probably notice that either (1) the bootable media won't be recognized or (2) you might even get some other errors, as many user have reported in the Microsoft community. If you try to do a clean installation using the "Custom" install you'll get a message that you cannot install Windows 10 because the partition you're trying to use is GPT (GUID Partition Table). .

This error could be the case if you use the "Windows USB/DVD tool", which creates a bootable USB drive using MBR (Master Boot Record) partition and not a GPT partition.

You can also try configuring the BIOS to use the "Legacy Support" to boot with the USB installation media if it wasn't detected before. However, you will probably get the error "no OS found" when rebooting your PC, so this isn't the solution.

Now, how you do solve the issue? While it will be a good idea for Microsoft to update its USB/DVD tool to let users customize the creation of installation media, the company wants you to update from Windows Update. But we know many there are many users who prefer to upgrade the old fashion way.

Using Rufus to solve the problem

Lucky there is an easier way, you only need the right tool. You need Rufus, a utility designed to create bootable USB drive for systems using MBR or GPT partitions.

Rufus is also a standalone utility, meaning that installation isn't required, just download, double-click the executable file, and you're ready to go:

1. Once you have Rufus open, the first thing you have to do is to choose from Device the USB you want to use to copy the Windows 10 installation files.

2. Then select GPT partition scheme for UEFI, leave the "File system" and "Cluster size" on the default settings, and remember to enter a label for the drive.

3. Make sure that Create a bootable disk using is checked and ISO Image is selected from the drop-down menu.

4. Next click the drive icon and open the Windows 10 ISO file you want to write to the USB drive, and click Start to finish.

Download Rufus

Download the Windows 10 ISO files

That's all.

Now, try to boot your computer with the new Windows 10 USB installation drive and you should be able to install the operating system normally alongside your previous version of the operating system.

Step 1:

Before starting, we will check if our server is fully up to date by using the following command:

yum update

After being sure that the server is up to date we can start the installation.

Step 2:

Now, we will use the following command to download the EPEL repository:

sudo rpm -Uvh http://mirror.metrocast.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

And to install the DenyHost packages we will use the following command:

sudo yum install denyhosts

You have to be careful that you have prevented your DenyHost’s server IP address from being denied during the installation. We will use the following command now:

nano /etc/hosts.allow

And the following command to protect our address IP, you can find your address IP within thislink. Don’t forget to replace “You_IP” with your address:

sshd: Your_IP

Now we will block everything. So we will use the nano editor to open the file:

nano /etc/hosts.deny

And using the following line we will edit the file by adding it to the button of the file:

sshd: ALL **

Then we will save and restart DenyHost using the following command:

/etc/init.d/denyhosts restart

And if you want to make any configuration of your installed DenyHost you have to open the following file and update it according to your preference:

nano /etc/denyhosts.conf

Step 3:

To check denyhosts ssh logs to know how many attackers and hackers are attempted to gain access to your server use the following command:

# tail -f /var/log/secure

And if you want to remove a banned IP address from the denyhosts, use the following command to stop denyhost firstly:

# /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop

And then use the following lines to remove or delete the banned IP address completely:

# nano /etc/hosts.deny
# nano /var/lib/denyhosts/hosts
# nano /var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-restricted
# nano /var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-root
# nano /var/lib/denyhosts/hosts-valid
# nano /var/lib/denyhosts/users-hosts

After removing the banned IP address, you have to restart the denyhost using the following command:

# /etc/init.d/denyhosts start

If you want to find a specific address IP, the easiest way is to use the grep command like the following example by replacing wanted_IP with your selected address:

#cd /var/lib/denyhosts
grep wanted_IP *

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we discussed how to install and configure DenyHosts on your CentOs 6 server. Also, we showed you how to defend against brute force attacks. As far as I know, It is easy to configure and it also supports email, smtp, and syslog notifications. Hope this tool will be useful for you sometime.

As you can probably figure, Spotlight images are cached on your local PC and hidden in a particular folder. They're given awful names like '8d71495e43fa1c6887a8840aa45…' but that is a different battle. Here is how to find them, copy them and save them for later use.

1. Hold down your Windows key plus R [Win + R] to launch the Run dialog prompt
   

2. Enter in the following command and then hit OK. Your best bet is to copy and paste:

   %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

   

3. A folder will be opened in File Explorer with non-specific file names.
   

4. Copy and paste the files into a new folder preferably something under This PC > Pictures > Spotlight as a permanent location (or under OneDrive so you can have them everywhere).

   

   Note: You will see a warning prompt when you go to copy the files, simply hit OK to the warning.

   

   

5. You need to rename all the files with the JPG extension. You could do this one by one or in a batch command – here is how to do the latter:

   

   Hit Shift + Right-click with your mouse in the directory where you copied the images. ChooseOpen command window here and type in (or copy and paste)

   Ren *.* *.jpg

   

   This action will rename all the files with a JPG extension.

   Note: Some of the files are cached junk and won't be actual images from Spotlight.

6. Filter and clean up

   Some of the images won't be images at all so delete all the files you do not want (use Ctrl + Left-click on the mouse to multi-select files).

   

   

   Bonus: Some of the images will also be vertical. For the vertical images, you may want to copy and paste them into a different folder as you can use them for your smartphone's Start or Lock screen.

   

That's it! You may notice that you only have so many images available as it depends on how many Spotlight images were produced on your PC. You may want to re-run this tutorial every couple of weeks (or on different PCs if you have them) to recoup even more photos.

Here's the JavaScript. Copy and paste it wherever you want the current year to appear:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
  var today = new Date()
  var year = today.getFullYear()
  document.write(year)
</script>

And here's the php script:

<?php echo date("Y"); ?>

php with start year:

&amp;copy; 2008-<?php echo date("Y") ?>

Start date with error protection:

<?php 
function auto_copyright($year = 'auto'){ 
 
  if(intval($year) == 'auto'){ 
  $year = date('Y'); 
  } 
 
  if(intval($year) == date('Y')){ 
  echo intval($year); 
  } 
 
  if(intval($year) < date('Y')){ 
  echo intval($year) . ' - ' . date('Y'); 
  } 
 
  if(intval($year) > date('Y')){ 
  echo date('Y'); 
  } 
 
} ?> 

here's how to use it

<?php auto_copyright(); // 2011?>
      or
<?php auto_copyright('2010');  // 2010 - 2011 ?>