Archive for the ‘Computing and IT’ Category
Slipstreaming SATA Drivers onto a Windows XP CD
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When Windows XP came out, SATA was cutting edge, and it didn’t detect sata drives during installation, which is a problem if you want windows to install and run from one of those drives. It’s fine if you’ve got a floppy drive as you can supply the drivers that way. However, most modern laptops have [...]
Tags: customising, operating systems, windows xp
Reset a Modx Manager Password using SQL
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If you’ve forgotten your manager password and you have access to the database and can issue mysql commands (phpmyadmin, or from a mysql command prompt). Use this to reset an account password, tbh, I would of hoped this system was salted (instead of using standard md5, maybe it was done intentionally to allow for this).
Tags: cms, modx, sql, web development
Cpanel - Pureftpd Max Clients Per IP Limit Reached
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I had a few clients with a fast internet connection running into the pure-ftpd max clients per ip address limit of 8. Because it was happening quite frequently, I made the changes in the pure-ftpd config file located here:
Tags: centos 5.2, cpanel, pure-ftpd
How to categorise a blog?
Posted by admin | Filed under Computing and IT, Ideas and Thoughts, Pick and Mix
I’m in a dilemma currently, how do I categorise the articles I write on my personal blog. One of the firsts things I did is take a look how Youtube categories content (http://www.youtube.com/browse), it’s pretty broad and generalised. I guess it’s done to make it easy to choose a category, the first one on the [...]
Tags: blogging, semantics, thoughts and ideas
Installing iftop - Centos 5.2
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iftop isn’t available to be installed with yum. So we need to install it using rpm.
First thing we do is visit the official iftop website and download the rpm for redhat.
Tags: Add new tag, centos 5.2, command promp, Linux, network, traffic
Disk Space Usage - Linux
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What’s taking up all the space?
A command prompt try some of the examples I list below:
du –help
Tags: command promp, disk, Linux, usage
Mollom - 5 Month Result - It works! Drupal 6 Content Quality Control Module (Anti Spam)
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Late last October, I was hunting for a solution to the ever increasing malicious content that gets posted through site forms on drupal sites (that might be unfair, sites in general!).
Tags: addon, anti, drupal, module, spam, web development
Modified 960 Grid System - 2+2px margins - 16 column only
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Tags: css, framework, html, web design
Linux Permissions - Octal Notation
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Have you ever wondered what 755, 754, 777 mean? Let me help….
The first thing I will explain is why it’s called Octal Notation, quite simply, every numeral that makes up the permission has 8 values. They are:
Tags: Linux, permissions
lfd on servername.com failed
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Sometimes a Cpanel server running lfd (part of CSF) will send you an email every minute because it’s detected an lfd service failure.