Monthly Archives: April 2012

Goodbye Menus?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Adrian

On the 26th April, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu was released. There are many tweaks and improvements included in version 12.04 (again, sporting one of Ubuntu’s traditionally silly code names, this time it’s ‘Precise Pangolin’), but … Continue reading →

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cPhulkd – How to Remove a Block

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Chris

If you’ve been blocked by cPhulkd (cPanel’s brute force detection) then you can still login to the server via the command line, this means you can remove your IP address from being blocked by cPanel by accessing the database. The … Continue reading →

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Piping (aka Pipeline)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Mirek

It’s not about plumbing – it’s linux shell commands and its special construction allowing to pass the output from one command right to input of another one creating a pipeline (command chains). Everyone who ever came across administration of a … Continue reading →

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UEFI Secure Boot

Posted on April 18, 2012 by David

What Is It? It is a system where by unauthorised code (such as viruses and other malware) cannot be run on boot. This should make computers more secure but it also locks down the computer from running programs like the … Continue reading →

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Reading RSS Feeds From Multiple Feeds Using Zend Feed

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Tom

Using one method to read from multiple RSS feeds by using one standard coding method may cause problems. This is because there are different types of feeds. One could be an atom feed and the other an RSS feed, and … Continue reading →

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Creating WordPress Plugins

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Richard

WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the internet, it was first released on May 27th 2003 and has had well over 65 million downloads to date, and for that reason alone, getting involved in WordPress development … Continue reading →

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BFD custom rules for Dovecot

Posted on April 4, 2012 by David

On all of our servers we recommend a combination of APF and BFD, the first is needed for the 2nd. Now generally bfd does a good job of blocking attacks on ssh, ftp and mail accounts however recently we have … Continue reading →

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