Permanently delete data from your computer with a “Government Wipe” standard of removal. This is to be recommended, especially is you resell your computer. Read more…
An aide-memoir, cum cliff-notes:
VTP version 3 differs from earlier VTP versions in that it does not directly handle VLANs. VTP version 3 is a protocol that is only responsible for distributing a list of opaque databases (somewhat like like LDAP!) over an administrative domain. When enabled, VTP version 3 provides these enhancements to previous VTP versions: Read more…
Oracle Finalises deal to acquire Sun
An announcement on their website (http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.htm ) states:
“we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.”
(Note the use of small “o” in “Open”)
“A big part of the Internet is built on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python). Now Oracle is trying to buy Sun, which owns MySQL. Read more…
Whenever you upload a template or file anything from joomla admin section or by any other means, it will be having a nobody:nobody permissions as all the installs through the Joomla Admin defaults to apache as the owner and apache uploads the file for you with nobody ownership. Read more…
I was recently asked a question about port numbers on web servers. This answer will apply to any DMZ host, whether http, ftp, telnet or ssh.
The question as phrased was:
If you decided to use a different port for your web server (say port 8080), how would a user make requests to your web server?
When using the “body background” HTML tag, you might find that smaller images tile (repeat) across the whole page.
You can use this css to prevent this.
<style type=”text/css”>
body
{
background:url(‘your-photo.gif’) no-repeat;
}
</style>
Connect to your server then navigate to modules\mod_footer\tmpl\default.php
Then, using a text editor, such as Windows (eeurgh) Notepad,remove the lines:
<div><?php echo JText::_( ‘FOOTER_LINE2’ ); ?></div>
Ever had that problem where the ant.com toolbar appear in your HTTP user Agent? You tried to find it and remove it; you tried “add/remove programs” in Windows; you looked in Firefox Addons – but you couldn’t find it!
Try this:
(Always excercise caution when working with advanced settings).
If changing the password won’t work, or you aren’t sure which user is a member of the Super Administrator group, you can use this method to create a new user. Read more…
The IEEE has finally ratified the 802.11n standard, see the press release here
