The AskApache blog has a great comprehensive guide to .htaccess. A must read for anyone who does a lot of work with Apache. http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html
Categories: Code Samples,Configurations,Linux,System Administration
Tagged: apache, htaccess, web server
There is a Zero-day Adobe flash exploit being actively distributed in the wild using SQL injection attacks onto many websites (Securityfocus thinks about 20,000 or more). Reported to be a password sniffer. Yet another reason to run the excellent Firefox addon NoScript. Sources: 1, 2
Categories: Site Updates
Updated on 8/26/2008 with corrected information! Window’s simple shutdown command works well, but has some major drawbacks. The major one is that it will only schedule a reboot up to 10 minutes into the future (600 seconds). Linux’s shutdown command makes this easy, just issue the command ‘shutdown -r +60′ for example to reboot an [...]
Categories: Programs,Shell,System Administration,Windows
For some reason, Firefox started to display a blinking cursor, like web pages I have been viewing were editable. Thinking that some errant plugin was causing this behavior, I manically disabled a few I had recently installed. However that didn’t fix the problem. Good ole Google to the rescue. Firefox has a ‘feature’ that lets [...]
Categories: Configurations,Programs
Tagged: caret, configuration, firefox, tips
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