Fedora Chokes on Firefox
.!. 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....
View ArticleHow to Add Services to Chkservd
.!. .!. 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...
View ArticleWhere Does cPanel Put It?
I can think of a few things that are wrong with that title but in all seriousness…don’t you ever wonder where cPanel stores the config changes that you make in WHM? Automation is the key nowadays, and...
View Article10 Excellent Open Source Alternatives
Those of you who are regular readers of my blog know that I’m a huge fan of open source software. I don’t think it’s smart for people to drop upwards to thousands of dollars on software unless they...
View ArticleCommand Line PHP – Part 1
PHP isn’t just for websites anymore. In fact, almost every script I’ve written to perform server-side functions is either written in bash or PHP, rather than Perl or Python as preferred by my...
View ArticleCommand Line PHP: Part 2
This post is continuing on my three-part series on command line PHP programming. Missed part one? It’s right behind you. This part will go over command execution and processes. Command Execution Let’s...
View ArticleCommand Line PHP: Part 3
This is part third and final part in my PHP command line tutorial series. If you didn’t see parts 1 and 2: Command Line PHP: Part 1 Command Line PHP: Part 2 More File and Disk Functions Getting Disk...
View ArticleBetterLinux is Gracefully Shutting Down
About two years after BetterLinux was released, they announced this morning that they are closing their doors: “Effective immediately we are discontinuing future signups to BetterLinux and have...
View ArticleResolving Duplicate glibc Packages on a CentOS Server
Here’s an unusual one – yum crashed in the middle of an update and somehow recorded multiple versions of glibc and glibc-common being installed, preventing Yum from updating: [root@server ~]#...
View ArticleWomen Now Need Special Books for Learning IT Things
I must have missed the memo on this, but us gals apparently now have special books and training courses targeted at our fragile lady brains. I’m so glad these gentlemen took the time our of their...
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