Most Red Hat-based distributions, like CentOS, should have a file called redhat-release which will contain the CentOS version. Simply open up a new terminal session and run the command below: [root@panther ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.8 (Final) You can also use following command: [root@panther ~]# rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-8.el5.centos
If your a systems administrator working with a lot of web servers, then you’re going to need to do a lot of DNS lookups on a daily basis. There’s a lot of websites out there which let you get a DNS report on a domain name or hostname. I used to use DNSstuff until they [...]
I just purchased a new server in New York for use as a private Proxy and VPN server. I did this for a number of reasons; privacy, security, to improve my speed, for use on public or open networks, or to get around blocks. I’m going to start of by explaining how to install Squid [...]
Came across a post on Edward Lewis’ blog mentioning the All In One SEO Pack plugin, and an annoying change the latest version makes to the WordPress admin post dashboard section. It adds some extra columns to the right hand side as you can see in the table below, the annoying thing is that there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 24. Nov, 2011
While trying to watch a Channel 4 documentary on the life of British code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing online, I was forced to sit through all the annoying ads. I wouldn’t have minded but the adverts kept cutting off mid stream and breaking the entire broadcast, I had to find a way to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 23. Nov, 2011
Today Google published the best Google doodle I’ve seen yet in honor of Stanisław Lem, a Polish writer of science fiction (Solaris, etc., also turned into a film of the same name Andrei Tarkovsky and again by Steven Soderbergh), philosophy and satire. Who else but Google would let you blow up robots with 7-segment displays [...]
Posted in Projects on 12. Sep, 2011
WhatHosts.me is a website I put together in a couple of hours on it – the site features simple design and functionality. Simply put in our own words.. WhatHosts.me is a website where you can lookup where certain websites are hosted. The information includes the exact geographical location and the name of the company that [...]
Posted in News on 31. Aug, 2011
Thought today that my laptop needed upgrading so purchasing a cheap SSD and 4 GB ram would fix this. While looking for a good Kingston SSDNow SSD, I came across this much better Corsair Force Series 3 120GB solid state drive on Amazon for £40 more and decided what the heck, so brought it instead [...]
Posted in News on 30. Aug, 2011
Just ordered two brand new HP ProLiant MicroServers, don’t have a clue what I’m going to do with them yet but saw a great deal so quickly brought two for myself and another two for my dad’s business. Hopefully they will arrive Thursday morning, and I can’t wait to get my hands on them! Price [...]
When writing my file sharing site easyfile, I faced a problem with finding a way to generate id’s to access files. I first looked at using PHP’s uniqid function to do it but 13 characters was too long, I then knew I would have to create a PHP function to randomly output letters. I decided [...]
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