If you run servers offering SSH connections (you are using SSH right? If not, stop reading this immediately and go and learn about it), you may have noticed annoying sessions showing as active when you know that they aren’t. Some people call them orphaned, disconnected or leftover sessions. Since some Unix installations by default, either [...]
If you didn’t already know, I love Apache. Defining a favicon is a nice detail to add to your site, you already know that. But did you know you can specify a default favicon on your Apache web server that can span across virtual hosts? Of course this would be overridden if a site chooses [...]
This guide was originally written for the Melbourne PHP User Group and the O’Reilly web site. It has been reproduced here in case someone finds it useful.
This document serves as a guide for book reviewers, however some of the same principals apply for reviewing software, hardware, services, events and web sites. Good reviews are [...]
A common question I see being asked on various lists is “How do I block an IP address from accessing my site?”
This should *not* be treated as a robust security measure, there are many ways this could be bypassed. Use at your own risk.
Copy and paste the text below into a file and name it [...]
For those that don’t know, Movable Type is a blogging tool that you can use on your own server. It has a very large user base and is quite popular. There are already stacks of “Install Guides” around, however if you’re impatient here’s the one and only, “Install Movable Type in 60 seconds!”
(this worked on [...]
A few people have requested this after a recent talk I presented on SEO for the Macromedia Users of Victoria.
Below is an example of an email requesting an inbound link. Keep in mind that this method isn’t as successful as picking up the phone and calling webmasters directly, however some people might still find it [...]
This article describes how you go about setting up SSH access without the need of manually entering your password (thus the title; Password-less SSH, or Passwordless SSH to some people). This may or may not be a good idea. It’s up to you to research the security implications of setting something like this up, however [...]
Add Live Bookmarks To Your Site!
This article describes what you need to know if you’d like to enable Live Bookmarks on your site. If you’re not sure what Live Bookmarks are, they’re one of the latest features built into the Firefox web browser (check out my previous article “What are Live Bookmarks?” for more information) [...]
By default, many Linux distro’s have a nice BASH prompt. If you’ve just installed FreeBSD, you might be wondering how to get a shell prompt you’re more used to, ie. BASH. By default, your shell is CSH. There are a few ways to install software using FreeBSD, whichever way you choose you will have to [...]
OK, so you’re asked to support or manage an application that uses MSSQL Server. For example, many web hosting companies offer MSSQL Server as their preferred RDBMS.
If you need to remotely access and/or manage a Microsoft SQL Server and don’t have access to a machine running the management tools (called Enterprise Manager, found on the [...]
