One of the features that I personally like in Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 is the ability to save themes to the local computer system so that they can be shared with family, friends and other Windows 7 users from around the world. The theme creation is in fact that easy that it usually [...]
This abstracts how to upgrade your FreeBSD installation to FreeBSD-STABLE. It Is not configured to replace the manual of arms, but is a fast set of crib-notes on how to get the OS upgraded.
NOTE: If you but would like to update to the latest FreeBSD release, the binary upgrade process is probably the way to [...]
The last destination or commission of this serial of content is to allow users concrete and professional person lessons of supervising their servers and network devices using MRTG. In the end of these series of articles, we will round up and unite all these MRTG graphs to our web based network monitoring system called Cacti.
I [...]
Have you ever forgotten your MySQL root password? It’s one of those things that just happens despite the numerous precautions one might take. As a result, you are locked out of your database server. You can’t create new databases and are left with little control over the state of your database server. In such situations [...]
It is good to have some knowledge of Unix commands especially if your web host is Unix/Linux based. You could do alot of things by yourself by logging into the server via Secure Shell(SSH). This article will describe some of the important “need to know” Unix commands.
1. ls
This command will show you what files are [...]
If you have ever feel frustrated because you have been unable to reboot a machine from a remote location (using Microsoft’s own RDC), here’s a solution. While I recall having the option to send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to the remote machine that doesn’t seem to be available in most recent versions of the software, or at [...]
Any webmaster knows the importance of a good FTP program. Although we can accomplish FTP requirements through a command line program, whether it be on Windows or a flavor of *nix, that is not always the most efficient way. A good program is typically advertised as a commercial software application with an associated commercial cost. [...]
At work, we currently have deployed apps that run on JBoss under Windows 2003. No big deal really, apart from other services on the Windows servers tend to kill the entire box now and again - quite a pain in the backside. So I’m trying to convince them to move to a more stable OS, [...]
