A while ago we saw on all news channels how US Power Grid was hacked. Probably everybody looked at that event like to a new file in a neverending story about how some guys are breaking in government’s networks. As I saw along the years everybody says that those crackers are some “stupid guys” or [...]
Oracle buys Sun. Interesting. What about MySQL? What will happen with the biggest open source database engine? Who knows… probably not even they(the new buyers) know at this point what will happen to MySQL. Two of MySQL co-founders have resigned, it is good or it is bad? We think that this is for now at [...]
Inside each system administrator’s utilities category are some scripts that are a must. One of those scripts is the disk usage monitor. Users will try to grab every possible piece of the disk but you, as system administrator, must keep everything under control. If you agree and you want a script that sends you the [...]
Canonical and the community is doing their best to keep their word when is about one release every six months. The current stable release is Ubuntu 8.10 and the version that reaches his end of life is Ubuntu 7.10 but the most important thing is that the new version can already be downloaded (at this [...]
Being asked how I would do fast a simple server ping script in PHP, I’ve asked “Like this!” and for this “this” you must take a look below. If you want a more detailed one and with much more options than this you should check the man ping page to see the whole list of [...]
We assume in this little article that you want to make some back-ups but you don’t want super sophisticated scripts and stuffy things to roll on your machine. More than that we assume that you want to make a folder back-up and also a mysql database back-up. If you need something like that, here are [...]
If you are in the field probably you’ve heard a lot about mod_rewrite and URL redirecting and SEO. For search engines the response is very important and this is like this because for you the most important thing is to keep as much as possible your position inside search engine ranking and index. If you [...]