Articles in the Featured Category

Tips and Tricks: change the group and umask your ftp files for security
By paan
Posted in Featured, Tip & tricks on 29 June 2008
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The task
One of the problems when I am uploading files to a webserver is files permission needs to be reset everytime I upload a file so that you the webserver user can read the files. This is cubersome little thinkg especially when sometimes when I am coding and I reupload the script each time I [...]

Getting rid of the extremely annoying “Do you want to restart you computer now?” prompt after windows update
By paan
Posted in Featured, Tip & tricks on 17 June 2008
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Everybody has seen their share of this message prompt. Let me show you how to disable this prompt completely.

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Domain name market price and a few cheap domain name registrar
By paan
Posted in Featured, Tip & tricks on 2 April 2008
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Well, now that you’ve made the hard decision on what your domain name is going to be. You want to go ahead and register it. First thing you should know that not all domain registrar are the same. Some are more expensive than others here I will give you a few examples of sites that offer [...]

Compiling slocate on Solaris 10
By paan
Posted in Featured, How-to on 25 March 2008
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The gnu secure locate utility or more commonly known as slocate is a very usefull utility to have. Not only does it index the drive so that seaches are done to a compressed database instead of the filesystem to speed it up, slocate also apply security restriction to searches so that you can only see the [...]

Changing hostname in Solaris 10
By paan
Posted in Featured, Tip & tricks on 14 February 2008
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I’ve been using Linux for sometime now and changing hostname in Linux has always been a simple matter of changing the /etc/hostname file or running the ‘hostname” command. Changing hostname is Solaris 10 however is a little more cumbersome than that.

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