Author: admin
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Apache 2 – Password protecting a directory using .htaccess
Recently I was asked to set up a small e-commerce website and I wanted to ensure certain directories could only be accessed by those who needed to. One of those pages was phpmyadmin which if brute forced, could cause a lot of damage. Despite having a strong password for phpmyadmin, it only makes sense to…
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Warning! Linux Mint – Multiple hacks.
The Linux Mint blog announces that the project’s web site was compromised and made to point to a backdoored version of the distribution. It is advised that if you did download an ISO on the 20th, then you avoid using it. If you are a forum user it is advised that you change your passwords,…
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Xfce compositing and compton keyboard shortcut toggle
In a previous post we addressed a simple way of enabling and disabling compositing in Xfce using a shell script. In this post we discuss how to do the same with compton, as well as some additions made to the original script. So, without further ado, the relevant code: For compton: The difference here is that…
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Dropping Dropbox
I’ve been a Dropbox user since 2008. I’ve enjoyed using Dropbox over the years, with native linux support and native android support I was able to back up what I wanted to back up (i.e. phone, desktop and server contents) with ease and without having to think about it. Alas, the time has come for me…
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Hosting woes
As a result of much downtime with our old hosting provider, we’ve now decided to take up a VPS with Linode (Our affiliate link). After much testing over the course of 4 months, we were quite happy with the performance and stability. Apologies for any issues you may have had accessing the site (Although judging by…
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Xfce – Set a keyboard shortcut for compositing toggle
I use Xfce as my primary desktop environment, and recently, I found the need to disable and enable compositing on a regular basis. This led to my search for a way to do this via keyboard shortcuts, as it was quite inconvenient to have to open the Window Manager Tweaks GUI each time to simply…
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Linux Voice – Crowd funding
As a long time reader of the Linux Format magazine, a brilliant read, I was quite shocked to find out that some key members of this magazine had left. They also had a pretty entertaining podcast on TuxRadar.com, where they made their announcement to leave linux format on the last episode of their podcast there.…
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Apple has announced that the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs has died. He was 56 years old. In a statement, the company said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world…
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Google acquires Motorola Mobility
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) yesterday announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday,…
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The Humble Indie Bundle #3 Is Live
The Humble Indie Bundle #3 is officially live. You can get 5 classic indie games: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, Hammerfight, VVVVVV and And Yet It Moves for whatever price you want while helping the Child’s Play Charity and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The games being cross-platform mean that they work natively on Linux Mac OS…