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WHM APF Plugin
2008-06-06 06:48:00 I’m happy to announce my first ever perl-written plugin for WebHost Manager, which was developed by myself and one of my fellow sysadmins at InMotion Hosting. The first release is available here: Download v.1.05 To explain a little bit of background here, many hosting companies that give some sort of **** about security will leave SSH ... More About: Plugin
Sexifying WHM with XML API
2008-05-07 11:33:00 I don’t know about you other cPanel system admins out there, but I find WHM to be very useful for the more advanced and time-consuming tasks, such as installing SSL certificates. However, the easy stuff like changing an account’s package and resetting passwords is a royal pain in the ass as far as convenience ...
Nomao is Probably the Sexiest Thing I?ve Seen All Week
2008-05-06 11:58:00 I came across nomao.com today and I must say that it’s probably the best non-social networking site I’ve see so far. It’s basically a website where you sign up and add your favorite hot spots and important locations so your friends can look at your profile and get directions to wherever. It’s kind ... More About: Week , Thing
The Big 21
2008-04-21 17:42:00 Well, my 21st birthday is finally here…yay! Of course, all that means to me is that I can now do everything I’ve already been doing for the last four years, only now I’d be doing it legally. So happy birthday to me, I’m getting plastered tonight. FYI, no pics yet — the party is ...
The Super-Duper Way to Run Backups
2008-04-15 08:49:00 I often worry about my PC at work — it’s about 3 or 4 years old now and I’ve already crashed it twice by running Ubuntu updates and not letting them finish. Luckily I have my home drive mounted as a separate partition so reinstalling the OS isn’t a huge inconvenience aside from having ... More About: Super , Backups , The Super
An Investigation of Sexual Chocolate
2008-04-14 12:39:00 My phrase last week was “sexual chocolate” — I have no idea where I heard it from or why I had such an urge to repeat it and linger on the laughter and dirty looks. I though it was something like chocolate that you use during, um, relations, but it appears that I was sooooo ... More About: Chocolate , Investigation , Sexual
Moving Towards PCI Compliance with cPanel
2008-04-14 11:31:00 Those of you who are server admins or use certain merchant services know what I’m taking about — it’s that dreaded security scan that picks apart your server to tell you everything that it thinks is wrong, assuming you have the knowledge or access to fix it: yes, the PCI scan. PCI compliancy ... More About: Moving , Compliance
I got Blogged-eded.
2008-03-27 19:47:00 …And for the first time I had my clothes on during. The good people over at blogged.com ranked me at an 8.2 out of 10. I never even heard of blogged.com until I got an email from one of their editors yesterday stating: “We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, ...
Alternative PHP Caching FTW
2008-03-27 13:24:00 We get a TON of requests for the PHP APC pecl module because after having adopted suPHP into our configuration, eAccelerator is worthless. It’s quick to install, and especially if you’re running suPHP or phpsuexec, each user can maintain their own settings within their local php.ini without me having to do anything — basically ... More About: Alternative , Caching
Someone?s Got the Internet AIDS?
2008-03-23 14:05:00 I knew something was fishy when I got an IM from my ex whom I haven’t spoken to in over a year on bad terms: hey How are you???? this is ur pic rite?! http://www.msn-gallery.com/gallery.php?us er=blue_butterfly21.jpg Worse enough I can’t believe I clicked on that shit.. I thought maybe it was one of those pictures from the amateur ... More About: Internet , The Internet , Aids
Capone is Blood-Hungry
2008-03-08 16:26:00 My house is right in front of the Tallwood woodlands so it’s not uncommon for me to wake up to find possums, squirrels, and raccoons in my garage or upstairs where they come in through the attic. There’s also the rare occasion of snakes on the patio and in the trash cans. ... More About: Blood , Hungry
Rejected Tax Return?
2008-02-11 06:49:00 For the last four years by dad has been filing my taxes for me so I was all proud to be doing them myself this year…that is, until I got a letter from the IRS stating that I’d miscalculated my Federal tax return and I have another chance to get it right before they order ... More About: Return , Rejected
The Return of Stylish Web Design
2008-02-02 04:39:00 Not everyone has the talent or patience required to design a good site. I’ve been referring people to template services for years, but I recently came across this site that caught my eye. What sucks about most design services is that their sites are not caught up enough with the modern Web 2.0 ... More About: Web Design , Design , Stylish , Return , The Return
How to Add Services to Chkservd
2008-01-29 02:45:00 Chkservd is the service in cPanel that checks to make sure that services are running, then restarts them if necessary. It’s also responsible for the ‘Service Manager’ section in cPanel, which is an interface where added services can be easily checked on and off. To add a new service, create a line in /etc/chkserv.d/chkservd.conf in the ... More About: Services
Fedora Chokes on Firefox
2008-01-17 18:17:00 We use Fedora in my Linux classes at school, so I was equally pissed off of when I found out that the stock firefox installation doesn’t support ssl…in other words you can’t get to secure pages. Since the entire schooli ntranet is on a secure connection it pretty much sucks when you can’t access ... More About: Firefox
Creating and Installing an SPF Record
2008-01-09 19:36:00 Have you ever received a bounce for spam that was sent by you…only it wasn’t sent by you? Email spoofing is one of the easiest concepts to understand for us, but the hardest to explain to end users who confuse spoofing with email hacking and hijacking. The way I explain it to our ... More About: Creating , Record , Cord
The [pretty much] Complete Guide to Installing ffMPEG and Audio Binaries
2008-01-07 19:39:00 I know you’ve provably seen a lot of guides on how to install ffMPEG, but I’ve noticed that most of them are incomplete and don’t cover the possible issues that can arise during installation. I’ve installed ffMPEG on dozens of servers and have devised a standardized procedure on what I feel is the best ... More About: Audio , Guide , Pretty , Complete
Christmas Party Pics
2008-01-02 02:03:00 I know, I know, I took forever posting these after filtering out the ones that were NQSFW. I hosted a Christmas party at my house last week where my sister was the designated photographer, so you can see the pictures she took here. p.s., don’t ask me any specifics…I wish I could remember the context of ... More About: Party , Christmas party
Moving Towards PHP 6
2007-12-27 07:13:00 Back in the day I posted my horror of upgrading my server to PHP 6. You might as well face it — PHP 5 is going to be dead in a few years just like PHP 4 is now, so it’s a good idea for all you programmers and server admins to start making your ... More About: Moving
Working with Permissions in PHP
2007-12-21 03:01:00 PHP uses the same command as *nix systems when dealing with changing permissions for files: chown - changes ownership, but can only be done by a root user chgrp - changes group ownership, can be done by a user who is a member of the new group chmod - changes permissions, can be done by the user (and ... More About: Working , Workin , Missi
How to Rearrange Your Package
2007-12-20 07:35:00 For some odd reason, Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros don’t like the standard x86 RPMs that most vendors package their software in. If you want to install a third-party RPM, you have to use alien to repackage the RPM into a .deb file before you can install it: sudo apt-get install alien alien -k your-rpm-file.rpm This will ... More About: Package
Whitespace is Evil
2007-12-19 07:23:00 I have this recurring nightmare of PHP apps that don’t trim whitespace when entering info. As a habitual copy and paster, it would be nice if some programmers could tend to my laziness and reluctance to type. Yes, Tony, I’m talking about you. Ever hear of the trim() function? Yea, it’s ... More About: Evil
More of Using PHP for Server Info
2007-12-17 06:53:00 I’ll eventually get the whole thing up here, but I’ve been working on a simple server info script to help me and the other members of the system admin team keep up with the gazillion servers we have and all their different configurations. One of the reasons it’s taking so long (aside from my ... More About: Info , Server , Serve
Importing CSV Into MySQL
2007-12-08 22:53:00 The newer versions of phpMyAdmin for some reason no longer include the option to import CSV files. If you are trying to import an Excel or other delimited file, first make sure that it’s in CSV format (with Excel you can export it as CSV). Then log into phpMyAdmin or your MySQL prompt ... More About: Mysql
Common PHP Errors
2007-12-08 04:44:00 I’m going back to the basics here, you know, when you wrote your first PHP script and saw an ugly-ass error message pop up on your screen? Error messages are the best tool a programmer has. Set up Error Reporting Most PHP errors are straight forward, but there are times where you don’t see any which ... More About: Common , Errors
Convert Database to UTF-8
2007-12-07 04:25:00 We seriously see a ton of customers coming in with the type of databases that are a nightmare to move over. When you’re dealing with special characters in a database, you have to make sure that the charset and collation are dumped *with* the database, so that when you move it to another server ... More About: Database , Convert , Vert
Using an .htaccess with PHP Compiled as CGI
2007-12-07 02:57:00 We recently started installing suPHP on a few of our servers, which is an implementation of phpsuexec, only a ton faster and with less overhead. Yesterday I posted a tutorial on how to install suPHP on a PHP5/Apache server outside of EasyApache, but today I shall go over how to enable PHP directives in ...
Interactive RoR Tutorial
2007-12-06 04:24:00 So it’s official, I’ve started my Ruby programming classes in school and I’ll finally be able to see what it can do. We started offering Ruby on some of our servers here and we’re all learning a little bit about it before we start offering it on our mainstream hosting…because you have to have at ... More About: Tutorial , Interactive , Interact
Installing suPHP on cPanel
2007-12-06 04:07:00 I wrote this tutorial a while back and figured it would be good to post because suPHP is growing more popular as an alternative to phpSuExec. The instructions assume that you are on a Linux cPanel server and are familiar with how to install PHP, but do not want to use EasyApache’s suPHP installer ...
SHOUTcast is Soooo Easy to Install ? Are You Kidding Me?
More articles from this author:2007-12-05 04:38:00 It surprises me how often people get nervous over installing things just because it’s new to them. The other day I had a guy harass our technical support for 20 minutes on the phone because he was wanted to install SHOUTcast. Honestly, before then I had never installed SC simply because I don’t ... More About: Kidding , Easy , Shoutcast 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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