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stop spam in phpbb with akismet
2007-05-14 10:25:00 Spam is a big problem these days. Spammers use advanced bots that can post thousand of spam messages on your forum, your blog, or any other type of site that allows the user to post messages or comments. The bots are becoming more and more advanced. A few years ago it was easy to stop ... More About: Spam , Stop , Akismet
Full Feeds
2007-05-11 11:51:00 I just enabled full text feeds on this blog so now you can subscribe to my feeds and read full articles from the comfort of your feed reader . I’m using the <!–more–> tag on some articles and because wordpress 2.1 also splits the feeds when it finds the more tag I had to install ... More About: Full
Free dual monitor video card
2007-05-09 19:33:00 John Chow if giving away an ATi Radeon-based X1550 graphics card. This card has a dual DVI output so you can connect two LCD monitors to your computer, or two CRT monitors using a converter. The card has 512 DDR2 on board and it value is around $100. To enter the contest just comment on his post ... More About: Video , Card , Free , Monitor , Video Card
qmail and DKIM
2007-05-04 16:27:00 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for validating the identity associated with a message using using public-key cryptography and key server technology. DKIM is an enhanced version of Yahoo’s Domain Keys and Cisco’s Identified Internet Mail methods. As of February 2007 an IETF draft was accepted as “Proposed standard”, it may take some ... More About: Email
reviewme paid reviews
2007-05-02 15:08:00 Today I received an email from reviewme (Aff) announcing me that my blog was accepted and they are ready to accept review orders, so I may write some paid reviews if I find something interesting to review. It seems they now have a marketplace where advertisers set up campaigns and publishers can accept those offers so ... More About: Reviews , Paid , View
squid outgoing ip patch
2007-04-27 21:49:00 Some time ago a client of mine was running squid on a system with multiple interfaces and ips. He wanted a setup where squid would use the same ip on which it received the connection to create the connection to the destination server for fetching the content. Let’s say we have 3 ips 1.1.1.1, ... More About: Patches , Patch , Squid , Going , Goin
strcmp in bash
2007-04-20 20:51:00 If you want to compare two strings in shell you can use something like test “$str1″ = “$str2″ but that will only tell you if the strings are equal. The strcmp(3) C function also tells you if the first string is less or greater then the second ( alphabetically) . I created a ... More About: Bash
functions in bash
2007-04-20 20:24:00 When programming/scripting in shell, like in most of the other programing languages you can organize your code in functions that can be called from anywhere in your code, you can pass parameters to them and they can return a value or output something. More About: Functions , Function , Bash
PHP pecl freebsd port bug
2007-04-20 18:35:00 A bug exists in the pecl cli script on freebsd that will not permit you to install any pecl package. The problem is that the pecl script needs pcre.so but the script calls php with -n ( don’t use php.ini ) so the pcre.so extension is not loaded. A quick fix is to edit /usr/local/bin/pecl ... More About: Port
Qmail with smtp-auth and DomainKeys on FreeBSD
2007-04-03 03:56:00 I tried to set up qmail with tls and smtp auth on freebsd. I have configured my server with SMTP-AUTH so that I can use it to relay messages for me and other authenticated users. I would like qmail to sign the messages that the authenticated users send through my server. I compiled qmail-tls from ... More About: Mail , Domain , Free , Main , With
The whole Post
2007-03-28 14:38:00 When using the <!–more–> tag to split your posts wordpress will generate a link that will take to a bookmark in the full post text. I wanted the link to take the user to the top of the page so that the user will also see the page’s header. There is an entry on wordpress.org ... More About: Post , The Who , Hole , Whole
squid digest authentication
2007-03-27 23:03:00 If you use authentication in squid you have several mechanisms ( authenticators ) to chose from. The Basic authenticator is the easiest to set up and the most insecure because the client sends the username and password in plain text to the proxy server. Instead of using the basic you would ... More About: Cat , Digest , Authentication , Squid , Then
Google Sitemaps - Jerome?s Keywords Plugin
2007-03-27 21:49:00 I wrote this little wordpress plugin to integrate Jerome’s Keywords plugin with Google Site maps plugin so that the generated sitemap will also include tag pages. This plugin was inspired by a an addon that integrates Ultimate Tag Warrior with Google sitemaps. You will need Word press 2.0.x, Google sitemap 3.0beta and Jerome’s keywords 1.9 for this ... More About: Rome , Words
freebsd 7.0 outperforms linux
2007-03-10 20:03:00 The development version of Free BSD ( 7.0 ) seems to scale a lot better then linux on SMP systems. A combination of latest freebsd scheduler ULE 2.0 that is built into FreeBSD 7.0, the libthr threading library and a patch (not commited, yet ? ) that addresses poor scalability of file descriptor locking and some other ... More About: Linux , Forms , Form , Perform
DRBD 8.0.1 released
2007-03-07 00:37:01 This is a maintenance release of the 8.0 code that fixes a few bugs as the original accounce says: Tara! The first maintenance release of the 8.0 code: 8.0.1 (api:86/proto:86) ——– * Fixed some race conditions that could trigger an OOPS when the loca disk fails and DRBD detaches itself from the failing disk. * Added a missing call ... More About: Released , Release , Lease , Ease
mysql replication monitor
2007-02-13 06:20:02 This is not a tutorial about how to set up mysql replication. You can find all the details about how to set up mysql replication in the official mysql documentation. This is just a script that can be used to monitor a MySQL replication setup. A MySQL replication setup consists of a master server ... More About: Cat , Monitor , Mysql , Replica
Three methods to transfer a mysql database
2007-02-13 06:20:02 Most of the web sites use some form of database from text files to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL , Sqlite and others. At some point as a webmaster you may have to change the hosting for a website and If you have to transfer a mysql database from a server to another you have a various ... More About: Data , Database , Transfer , Mysql , Trans
Email folders and message filters in thunderbird
2007-02-05 18:18:02 I really love using folders on my imap account. This is ( I think ) one of the main reasons why I don’t use gmail, labels are just not as good as folders. I have tens of folders and message filters for each folder, I’m subscribed to various email lists from the ... More About: Mail , Email , Hund , Thunderbird , Essa
drbd 8.0 released
2007-02-05 18:18:02 DRBD ( Distributed Replicating Block device ) is a Linux block device that is designed to mirror a whole block device over a network link. Today the team developing DRBD released version 8.0 Among many bug fixes and improvements in the new version we find support for primary/primary ( two way synchronization ) for distributed ... More About: Released , Release , Lease , Ease
phpPgAdmin 4.1 released
2007-02-05 18:18:02 Yesterday the phpPgAdmin Team announced a new major release of phpPgAdmin. Version 4.1 adds many new features, bug fixes and updated translations over the previous version. Download To download right now, visit: http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/?page=d ownload Demo To give the fully-functional demo a try, visit: http://phppgadmin.kattare.com/phppgadmin4 / New Features New icons by Niko , from the graphics repository on pgFoundry. Added icons to bread crumb trail and tabs. Send ... More About: Php , Released , Release , Lease
first freebsd 6.2 bugs found
2007-02-05 18:18:02 Just one day after the release and we have the first bugs that show up in the Free BSD errata. bug #1 Some isolated crashes were reported for arcmsr, the driver for Areca ARC-11xx and ARC-12xx series of SATA II RAID controllers. This problem is still being investigated. Users that have problems are advised to consider ... More About: Bugs , First
squid 2.6 transparent proxy
2007-02-05 18:18:02 In case you used squid 2.5 to create a transparent proxy and you decided to switch to 2.6 or this is the first time you try to set up a transparent proxy and most/all of the tutorials out there are for squid 2.5 here is a brief howto for this setup. In squid 2.6 the configuration ... More About: Roxy , Trans , Proxy , Rent , Squid
drupal.org is more popular then youtube.com
2007-02-05 18:18:02 Someone on the drupal site thought it was great news or at least worth mentioning that drupal.org is more popular then youtube.com. Actually the google page rank for drupal.org is 9 and youtube.com’s page rank is just 8. Does this mean that drupal is more popular then youtube? I like drupal, don’t get me ... More About: Youtube , Pop , Tube , Drupal , Popular
pgadmin III 1.6.2 released
2007-02-05 18:18:02 pgAdmin is an open source graphical PostgreSQL administration tool for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris based on wxWidgets . The new release anounced by the development team today is primarily a bug fix . You will need wxWidgets >=2.7 in order to compile this release. More About: Released , Release , Lease , Ease
FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE
2007-02-05 18:18:02 FreeBSD 6.2 was released today at 00:29:19 -0500 The release brings a lot of bug fixes and new features like official support for binary updates with freebsd-update, ipfw packet tagging, linux emulation support for sysfs, kde 3.5.4, gnome 2.16.1, bind 9.3.3 . Check out the complete list of new features and ... More About: Free , Release , Lease , Ease
easy way to create a random password
2007-02-05 18:18:02 Sometimes you just need a quick way to create a random password without installing special random password generators. Here is an easy way to create a random password using standard tools that are available on most of the unix flavours: head -c 10 /dev/random | base64 or if you don’t have the base64 program but you have ... More About: Word , Random , Password , Pass , Easy
TLS for HTTP
More articles from this author:2007-02-05 18:18:02 On my previous post about wildcard ssl I was complaining that you have to use a different ip for each domain that needs ssl/https and I wondered why there is no TLS feature like there is in SMTPS where you have STARTTLS. Well it seems I was wrong. There is such a feature, actually there ... More About: Http 1, 2, 3 |
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