Articles in the Tip & tricks Category

My openLDAP performance tuning tip of the week
By paan
Posted in Rants, Tip & tricks on 24 October 2008
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Intro
So let me just say it up front, “Index the objectClass attribute”. No really, go ahead and do it right now. Now that we have indexed our objectClass attribute, let me tell you  a story about how I learn that whatever you do, just index the objectClass attribute.
Background
I was working on a medium size openldap [...]

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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Use firefox on different computers with FEBE
By paan
Posted in Tip & tricks on 25 April 2008
Stats: 808 views and 1 Comment

The Firefox Environment Backup Extension is a great tool for firefox users that are using more than one computer,for example at work and at home, it allows you to synchronize your bookmarks, settings, cache, saved passwords, everything between diffrent computers.

One tip though, create a new firefox profile before restoring a full backup as the extension [...]

Domain name market price and a few cheap domain name registrar
By paan
Posted in Featured, Tip & tricks on 2 April 2008
Stats: 1,019 views and 3 Comments

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 [...]

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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