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Website Design for Small Business
My sister is running a web design business. The reason I'm doing a post is that she is using Joomla as the CMS and leveraging many OSS plugins. It's amazing how good Opensource Software has become in the last year or so. Professional results for minimal outlay and no...
Simple Squid Proxy Check
Squid outage fail-over If you run wccp through a Cisco router and your Squid Cache falls over the router will fail over to serving pages directly. Seamless fail-over is good but So you may never notice that your Squid proxy has stopped responding. So you lose the...
wxPerl – Getting which button has been clicked
I've been using wxGlade to create wxPerl interfaces. This is a sample of how to get one subroutine to handle multiple keys. Clicking any key allows the subroutine to return the label text of which key has been pressed. Pressing a key will give a Wx::MessageBox I...
Cause of QCAD QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied
I was experimenting with restricting multi-user linux boxes. A few days later trying to run QCAD with the above security settings threw this error: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied QCAD froze. I had to go back to...
squid.conf to allow purging
Update: I kept getting ACCESS_DENIED and ">Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect. ERR_ACCESS_DENIED" I added cache_mgr [email protected]...
99% and 99.9% uptime are a long way apart
If I was supplying you IT services and I said to you. "Your system will be available 99% of the time!" You may be tempted to think. Wow 99% is great. But lets do the maths. 361.4 / 365 x 100 = 99.0% So despite being up for 361.4 days a year you can have a 3 days and...