Archive for the 'Comps' Category

Shell for Windows - it can do more!

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

It turned out, “cmd” not so dull as I thought..
It must be said I am familiar with command line interface since MS DOS 3.0, and I believe in comsole is more comfortable way to do many things. The more so I spend many years with Linux. Hereto I’m not afraid black screen and small blinking […]

Wordpress: I dislike upgrades

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Regardless new bug found in WordPress, I dislike upgrade for this once. My solution:
Tags:security web wordpress

Wordpress and spam

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I disclose Wordpress shows waiting for moderation comments to their autor. It shows regardless these comments are not approved yet. Spam-robots consider this behaviour like successful attempt to post a spam. On the one hand this feature is user-friendly, but on the other hand I think this is not very important.
So, I to tear up […]

How to check robots.txt?

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Here is a few links:
Robots.txt syntax checker
robots.txt checker
Test The Syntax Of Your Robots File
Robots.txt Checker
Tags:web

To designers: Typography Terms

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Here is a good terms collection. http://www.proximasoftware.com/…terms/
Tags:creative design

keep in mind: chroot

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

My colleague catch a fail - he try to start chroot-ed bind and put named.conf into /etc/named instead /chroot/etc/named
To take notes.
Tags:linux

How to choose VPN

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

I found good table about methods/ways of VPN networks building.
Very useful and instructively, at least for me.
Here is a comparison 15 protocols/manners in 24 parameters.
Tags:internet network

MySQL fail to start: “Can`t read dir of /root/tmp/”

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

I’ve got theis error:
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can’t read dir of ‘/root/tmp/’
Simply, trite, but hard to guess:
$TMPDIR had value /root.
How to fix:
export TMPDIR=/tmp/
I added this into /etc/init.d/mysql
Tags:linux mysql

DNS HOWTO - rulez!

Friday, January 5th, 2007

I had to correct server having very strange and incomprehensible configured bind (named). Starting with uncommon serial number for zones and timeouts adn ending with absence 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa zone and chronic errors like
Got SERVFAIL reply from 127.0.0.1, trying next server
during some of zones resolving.
Tags:internet linux network

Perl: trouble with function names

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I was relaxed by Perl because of an ability to create many items with almost the same names: variable $i, array @i function &i and all of them work greatly.
Tags:perl web