- Published:
- May 29, 2008 – 9:46 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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
- Published:
- May 27, 2008 – 11:55 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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
- Published:
- May 27, 2008 – 4:47 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 hour [...]
Categories: Programs, Shell, System Administration, Windows
Tagged: sysadmin, tricks, Windows
- Published:
- May 8, 2008 – 9:09 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 you select [...]
Categories: Configurations, Programs
Tagged: caret, configuration, firefox, tips