Recently discovered an old Joomla website that had been hacked by a remote exploit which changed the contents of .htaccess and redirected the connecting clients away to malicious sites. I don't know how they managed it but I thought that if .htaccess wasn't writeable...
I haven't tried this but don't want to forget about it: http://infrarecorder.org/ You can also use ISORecorder which works well. Not sure of the license on this program. However the website says "Since the very beginning ISO Recorder has been a free tool (for personal...
Just had a play with the new Gnome 3 gnome-shell. On Ubuntu 10.04: apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell --replace To revert back to the default Ubuntu Window Manager metacity --replace (You may have to also run) gnome-panel & Anyway check it out... I can't wait...
I'm fairly strict with what I allow as comments on this blog. But if someone has gone to the effort to post a well-thought-out comment I don't mind if they put a URL in the comment or the associated website field and therefore gain some SEO benefit from it. I have...
A browser tells the site it is visiting about itself: the plugins it is using, the screen resolution it is set at, the fonts available for display, It's preferred language/timezone and many other little details... (OS etc) It does this in order for the remote site to...
Despite the oo website saying that the Australian dictionary is include in OO 3.x.x I couldn't spell check my docs. The "Text Language" field of the OpenOffice Spell Checking dialog was missing. So I had to download the OpenOffice Australian Dictionary and install it...
Check this out... Watching a video that was hosted on zshare.net... Tried to watch the next one in the series. Firefox kept saying that I had a problem loading the page. A little investigation and I discovered that DNS was replying with the address for localhost...
Evolution at least the Exchange integration component is so buggy you could drive it on sand dunes. Every time I update Ubuntu I try the default mail application. For Ubuntu this is Evolution. Call me optimistic but as time progresses I would hope that basic...
This will tell you how many unique IP addresses have connected to your website since the last log file rotation. So if your logs are rotated daily then you have the number of unique IP's for roughly the last 24hour # go to your apache logs directory and run: $ cat...
If you run mysqldump --all-databases you get one monolithic file which can be a pain when trying to restore one database. So it's nice to call mysqldump dbname so you get individual database backup files. To call mysqldump for each database requires that you either...