One of my clients called be mecause every now and then his was bugged by Windows XP to change his password. This seemed weird as XP doesn’t do this by default. Probably it was set to expire by someone or by some friendly security suite. Fortunately the solution for this expiring password problem is...
I outgrew my shared hosting and decided to go for a dedicated virtual server. I chose Linode but I will leave that for another article. I decided to use postfix + courier + mysql and virtual domains for my mail setup. Everythig was configured fine and dandy according to the documentation. But I kept...
I administer a few Joomla sites so from time to time I discover that I lost the admin password for the one I hadn’t had to update for a long time. There is no way to find out what that password was because they are stored as a one way MD5 but since I...
I’m an avid Slackware user. It was the distro I started using back in ’98 and, even if I tried and used many others I still like it the most. Anyways these rules apply to many other flavours of linux. One of the problems I faced is needing to make changes on inherited machines...
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