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Wordpress version 2.7 has been released and can be upgraded easily using UNIX / Linux shell prompt. A few assumptions:
WARNING! If you are not comfortable with UNIX shell prompt (IF YOU ARE new to a UNIX/Linux os), please follow traditional way of upgrading wordpress and DO NOT use the three Steps described here.{ 3 comments }
This test suite creates a BitTorrent-like transfer between your machine and our server, and determines whether or not your ISP is limiting such traffic. This is a first step towards making traffic manipulation by ISPs more transparent to their customers.
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From my mail bag:
I’ve downloaded .avi files which is compressed into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality using DivX format. How do I play DivX compressed files under Debian / Ubuntu Linux?
The current version of the DivX Community Codec for the Windows platform is version 6.6, and for Mac OS X is 6.6x. [...]
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There is a nice utility to monitor hard drive temperature. Most modern x86 computer hard disk comes with S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). It is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.
hddtemp utility will give [...]
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Here is quick tip, if you wish to perform an unattended download of large files such as Linux DVD ISO use wget as follows:
wget -bqc http://path.com/url.iso
Where,
=> -b : Go to background immediately after startup. If no output file is specified via the -o, output is redirected to wget-log.
=> -q : Turn off Wget’s output [...]
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If you are looking to debug a problem with HTTP server and would like to see HTTP requests / header responses in raw format, use shell tools or Firefox extensions.
Why do I need to dig out web server headers?
[a] Help debugging web application.
[b] See which kind of web server the remote site is using.
[c] See [...]
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One of regular reader asks a question:
My website powered by Lighttpd web server. I’d like to block Wget useragent for entire my domain.com site except for /downloads/ url section. How do I configure lighttpd?
You need to use $HTTP filed useragent and url combination. Just open your lighttpd.conf file and append code as follows.
Lighttpd block [...]
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