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So you’re designing a website, and you’ve reached a point where you need two background images behind the whole page, both repeating in at least one direction, but not all your pages will be full screen height. Let’s say that the “farthest” background is an abstract tiled pattern of some kind, and the “nearest” background…
I do a lot of surfing, looking for design inspiration, coding tips, or simply something to amuse me. I often start a surfing session using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia and then simply see where my interest leads me. Sometimes, even in 2009, it leads me to a website that starts playing music or talking at me…
If you create sites using WordPress, I’m sure there are certain plugins you find yourself using over and over again – either because they do so much that they can transform a site, or because they do just one little thing but do it really well. Here are the 5 that I tend to copy…
I’m a big fan of Firefox, and it’s been my main web browser for as long as I can remember. Partly because it’s pretty good with web standards, and partly because of its huge range of plugins – in particular a plugin called Adblock Plus which stops most banner and Google adverts from showing in…
Forcing reboot A Linux Server is not Windows XP and if reboot fail you usually still connect by SSH and do something. This commands will show you how to remotely hard reboot machine. Hard reboot mean that shutdown scripts will not run and machine reboot immediately without syncing hard disk drives, shutdown applications etc, it’s…
Virtuozzo includes a utility to update itself and the included templates. To run this, you will need to ssh into the hardware node and execute the command: vzup2date In order to update the templates, add a -t to the command thusly: Read moreAmpere Hardware & Kali Linux | Kali Linux Blogvzup2date -t It should be…
To make sure MySQL uses the query cache, there are a few variables you need to set in the configuration file . Usually its my.cnf or my.ini so check on your server with the shell command locate , in our case we are running on a CentOS 5.2 distro and to its my.cnf located in…
Moving mySQL DBs from one server to another: mysqldump -uUSER -pPASSWORD txp_database > txp_database.sql puts the entire thing in one nicely portable text file. Read moreKali’s stable Docker image is now named kali-last-release | Kali Linux Blogon a new server it takes mysql -uUSER -pPASSWORD txp_database < txp_database.sql to import it.
Taking backup of mysql database using cron Create a file called database_backup.sh and also an empty directory called mysql_backup. The database_backup.sh script should have the following info :
Whenever you can’t remember Root password, you can read this tutorial and do step by step to Reset it … You can log in with single-user mode and create a new root password. Reboot your computer. When GRUB is presenting the menu list, follow those instructions:
For whatever reason CentOS decided to drop netconfig and renamed it to system-config-network
This is a long-standing Windows XP annoyance, and every time I rebuild a PC or buy a new one, I have to rummage around the web to find the fix. Well not any more – here is the definitive fix (well, it works for me)… 1. As an administrator-level user, open a command prompt window2….
SCP – Moving large files from one Linux server to your new Linux server What is scp in linux? Secure copy or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts. It is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. Ok, so…
Distributed denial-of-service attacks In a distributed attack, the attacking computers are often personal computers with broadband connections to the Internet that have been compromised by viruses or Trojan horse programs. These allow the perpetrator to remotely control machines to direct the attack, and such an array of computers is called a botnet. With enough such…
How can I repair corrupt MySQL tables? Every so often, MySQL tables have a way of corrupting themselves. MySQL offers a quick and painless method of repairing those tables.
How To Mount A Drive In Linux This simple step by step guide will show you how to mount a new hard drive or partitions onto your Linux server
Need to know the exact size of your subdirectories in Linux? Just go to the directory , like cd / and try this du -cksh * Read moreKali Linux 2021.4 Release | Kali Linux Blog
Had an issue with one on our CentOS cPanel servers running 64 bit and cPanels easyapache upgrade. The folks at cPanel helped out with their usual professional response
Open SSH and type the following and press Enter: /sbin/ifconfig | grep -i hwaddr The sequence of hexadecimal digits that appears to the right of eth0 HWAddr (e.g. 08:00:27:ED:DA:8b) is your network card’s MAC Address
If you have issues with cPanel running CentOS5 with BIND then the easiest way is to downgrade BIND to 9.2.4 The reason you’re having trouble is because CentOS 5 uses bind-9.3 and CentOS 4 uses bind-9.2 – The changes between these versions is significant enough that cPanel won’t work with it properly. For instance by…