I’ve been doing a bit of development and one of my latest requirements was ImageMagick. I’m a compile from source kinda guy. I feel that rather than using pre-built RPMs, it’s best to have something built for your needs. It’s the difference between walking into Macy’s and buying a suit off the rack versus going [...]
Need to send a lot of mail from the server? 500,000+ Plesk due to support of Postfix.
Resource starved? Plesk
PCI Compliance? cPanel
Are you new to server administration? cPanel
SSL for multiple domains? Plesk
Highly configurable Apache/PHP/MySQL versions/settings? cPanel
Troubleshooting complexity? cPanel is easier. (Plesk stores everything in [...]
My linux/nerd blog/thing has recently been overrun by reviews. I recently joined kickstarter and thought I’d check out something small. I wanted to check out the process and see how smooth it went.
This time, I paid $30 for a pair of shades. Some people may think this is alot, others [...]
I purchased my backpack in the the Celebrity schema.
This backpack is very high quality and amongst the best I’ve owned. The sack is very comfortable due to all of the padding in the shoulders and the backside. Things I really like:
Sunglass Holder Fleece lined in laptop portion and other places [...]
I was working on a project this week and found that PHP’s json_decode function does not function properly with encoded characters. I tried a number of methods such as utf8_decode and addslashes to no avail. The location which I am stripping data from has no rhyme or reason to it’s encoding so I needed something [...]
I’ve had the joy, and i use that term loosely, of integrating multiple versions of PostgreSQL into Plesk and cPanel. Since I was unable to find any reasonable information on the web regarding what works and what doesn’t, let me save you some time.
cPanel
You can integrate Postgre versions 8.1 (default), 8.4, [...]
This might seem like a really simple concept, but please make backups of your content. In the past 2 weeks I’ve been encountered with issues regarding lack of backups. The first was due to hardware failure; not much you can do to avoid this. Even RAID arrays fail sometimes so don’t rely on the hardware. [...]
It is my opinion that the Twitter ‘bubble’ will burst soon. There is no denying that, right now, Twitter is a major force in the social media ring and an amazing tool for businesses; however, their statistics, lack of revenue, and content which is being tweeted lead me to believe that the bright idea will [...]
I bought a MacBook Air. The specs are as follows:
128G SSD
1.7GHz Intel Core i5
4GB DDR3 1333MHz
I paid ~950 for a Apple refurb.
I am not a Apple fanboy and have always sworn against them, primarily out of ignorance. So how did I get here? My trusty Lenovo [...]
After having hosted with HostMantis for some time (6 months), it’s about time for a review.
At this point I’ve utilized their Expert plan which I caught for a deal some time ago. It was such a good deal that while I was hunting for a domain name, I decided to [...]
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