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In the Linux/Unix/*BSD and their various flavours, the “root” user is the most powerful user on the whole system. If anyone gains access to this user, they can literally do anything, including wiping the whole […]
I use Window’s built-in RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) on a daily basis. I sit downstairs using my laptop connected to my main PC upstairs – it means I can sit in comfort, not have the […]
Anyone who has ever designed a web site has more than likely hit the old problem with cross-browser compatibility – in other words, trying to get your web site to look the same (or as […]
I have to be honest – I’m a late comer to using RSS. I’ve dabbled with it in the past, but never really found a reader/client that I was really happy with. As a result, […]
Over the weekend, an announcement was made by security experts that the popular web host control panel, cPanel is vulnerable to CRFS (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. The attacks can happen when visiting malicious web sites […]
Chances are you’ve downloaded an archive and extracted it into your web space, then noticed that all of the files are set to world writeable. Some people wouldn’t know any better, but it could be […]
In the old days of old, before CSS, XHTML and XML came along, plonking a table in the middle of a page was easy as adding align=”center” into the table tag. … But now, while […]
I’m in the process of transferring data from an old Linux machine to a new one, and one particular directory contained too much data to compress into one single huge file, so I decided to […]
I’ve been using Windows Vista for the best part of a year now, and have found it to be very stable and reliable (although, I know this is not the case for everyone). However, I […]
For a while now, you have been able to put a Google Map on your web site, to perhaps show where you are located, for example. There are a couple of ways to achieve this […]