Many Ubuntu users have problems with their wireless adapter. Here is the ultimate solution for the problem: The key application is called wicd. Before you install it, make sure you have no automated settings for your network interfaces: sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces Make sure the only entries are: auto...

Gentoo OS Installation from Minimal Disk This artlicle will show you how to install Gentoo OS from a minimal installation CD on your computer. Before proceeding, please ensure that you have the following: A computer infront of you. Available connection to internet – you will need to download...

First of all, it is important to explain how the database/database user names are formed. The names consist two parts — your cPanel username and the actual database/username name. For example — if your username is “user” and if you named your database “databasename”...

Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@******.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More...

If you send regular emails to a small list of customers/subscribers/friends you can create a very simple mail list via your cPanel if your ISP does not provide this feature by default with your plan. This could be done quite easy. You will need a to create a single email account via your cPanel ->...

For one of my projects I had to find the exact domain name extension using a php script. While, this doesn’t seems too hard to do for a simple domain name (i.e domain.com) by just exploding the domain string and separating the two arrays items by the dot character, I had to do it a little bit more...

Windows Vista is the new OS product from Microsoft. As everything new, this one includes some not so pleasant surprises. For example the keyboard layouts are drastically changed. Here is a short guide on how to edit these in Vista for your convenience. First off, you will need Microsoft’s The Microsoft...

This one is easy. However it took me a while before I found the sollution. Here is the scenario. You have an old serial wheel mouse and you do not want to buy a new one as the current is doing great its job :) If you try the Xorg auto configuration and fire up your favorite X window manager the mouse...

Today I had to configure my FTP server to apply 755 permissions to all newly uploaded files on the box. So, I am using VSFTP and referred to the online manual for more information regarding the exact directive that should be applied: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html Well, it is not the best...

If you have a small server for your own use (such as your personal page) or have a busy server servicing a lot of php requests you might find it a good idea to install some goodies in order to optimize the performance of your machine. A really good start might be installing the eAccelerator. The eAccelerator...