This post is not an article about how to receive email notifications from your system, but rather a tip about what should be your very first (No.1) action after a clean installation of a Linux system. It is well known that Linux – and obviously many other *nix systems, if not all – are pre-configured…
Moving the comments your readers have submitted under one of your blog posts to another one might sound like a horrible idea at first, but there are times, especially when the number of comments has increased too much, that such an action is required in order to reduce the page loading time. I am aware…
I consider ditionaries, either in printed or electronic form, as one of the most useful sources of valuable information and an indispensable companion when reading. Lately, I’ve been reading lots of stuff, which involved scientific terminology in the English language, so it was very often required to lookup words on various online dictionaries. I did…
This article describes how to use the command line download managers wget and curl in order to download files from your Rapidshare Premium account.
This article describes how to implement SSL-enabled name-based vhosts – that is secure virtual hosts which share the same IP address and port – with the SNI-capable mod_gnutls module for Apache’s httpd web server.
I attempted to update the current XHTML 1.0 Transisional WordPress theme in order to comply with the XHTML 1.1 Specification. I must admit that the switch was not that difficult and it required no more than 30 minutes to complete. All the errors and inconsistencies the W3C validator threw at me have been corrected and…
This article deals with the various methods that can be used in order to achieve more effective and productive management of email messages which originate from mailing lists.
In some of my older articles, at least where an SSH tunnel is involved, I keep mentioning a specific way of initializing such an encrypted tunnel, which results in the automatic closure of the tunnel after the job on the remote server is finished. Since this is my method of choice, I decided to provide…
One of the Linux command line tools I had initially under-estimated is netcat or just nc. By default, netcat creates a TCP socket either in listening mode (server socket) or a socket that is used in order to connect to a server (client mode). Actually, netcat does not care whether the socket is meant to…
Recently, much to my surprise, I found out that some critical data I had burned on DVD could not be read back from the medium. A more thorough examination showed that many of the files on the DVD had different filesizes than the ones on the hard disk. This is when I started to seriously…