Carrying out actions on multiple files
Chances are you’ve downloaded an archive and extracted it into your web space, then noticed that all of the files are set to world writeable. Some people wouldn’t know any better, but it could be […]
Category: Geek
Geeky type stuff.
Centring with CSS
In the old days of old, before CSS, XHTML and XML came along, plonking a table in the middle of a page was easy as adding align=”center” into the table tag. … But now, while […]
Compressing individual directories
I’m in the process of transferring data from an old Linux machine to a new one, and one particular directory contained too much data to compress into one single huge file, so I decided to […]
Vista oops
I’ve been using Windows Vista for the best part of a year now, and have found it to be very stable and reliable (although, I know this is not the case for everyone). However, I […]
Using Google Maps API
For a while now, you have been able to put a Google Map on your web site, to perhaps show where you are located, for example. There are a couple of ways to achieve this […]
Installing Rootkit Hunter HowTo
We all know how important security is on internet facing machines these days, which means it’s important to know what’s going on on our servers. One of the tools we can use to help audit […]
Migrating MBOX to MAILDIR
While the option to use MAILDIR has been around for nearly two years, cPanel/WHM has only recently made MAILDIR the default. Until v11 (approx, sorry, I can’t remember the exact version number), the default has […]
Updating to PHP5
I’ve been putting off updating PHP my server for ages, but PHP5 has been out for 3 years now, and with version 5.2, is finally stable and reliable enough for mainstream production use. Also, The […]
POP3 and/or IMAP not starting in cPanel
Recently, I found that POP3 and IMAP were failing to start on my backup VPS server, with cPanel/WHM. It’s not a major problem as its main task is to handle backup DNS and mail, but […]