First, I was registered user at text-link-ads.com (TLA). While I’m not very active using TLA, I do sometimes got emails from them. Mostly an announcement email regarding their new product. On Nov 20, I got the following email from TLA: Hello, we are excited to announce our newest publisher offering www.inLinks.com inLinks allows you to sell simple text link ads…
Read More »Just a few minutes ago, one of my cron that fetch current GeoIP.dat.gz file from MaxMind resolve to 404 Not Found. The cron is running monthly to update its GeoIP database. Its an Apache2 mod_geoip. This was the cron message: /etc/cron.monthly/geoip: –04:42:22– http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz Resolving www.maxmind.com… 67.15.94.80 Connecting to www.maxmind.com|67.15.94.80|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://64.246.48.99/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz…
Read More »MySQL is a powerful database engine (from my side of view ;-)) But it also might have several problem. Ie: a corrupted table after database crash. Here the simple way to backup your MySQL database or table from command line. Let’s start… To backup: Login to your server via SSH. I’m usually using the following format: mysqldump -u [username] -p…
Read More »Just a few minutes ago my php thumbnail creation script running out of control, causing thousands of thumbnails generated. I’m lucky enough to know this thing fast, a minutes late this script could fill in my server drive to the max. I FTP-ed to the server, but the FTP software I was using is limiting the number of files I…
Read More »A simple way to know what is the size of a directory using command line in human readable format. Login to your server using SSH. Format: du -hs some_folder/ Ie: du -hs public_html/ Good luck!
Read More »Asterisk is an open source PBXi, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. Available for free. URL: asterisk.org. CentOS is a Linux distributions based on Red Hat Enterprise. URL: centos.org. The following required before we begin installation: [*] CentOS minimal install [*] kernel-devel / kernel-smp-devel [*] bison [*] openssl-devel Installation: We will use atrpms repo for this install. Login via SSH…
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