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MD Web Hosting

  • Posted by saucer
  • February 26, 2008

It appears that MD Web Hosting, an Australian web hosting company based in Melbourne has been having server outages from as far back as early February 2008 (Whirlpool Forum posts). Reading the forum posts, MD Web Hosting claims the the web servers suffered power failures. Technicians have been working to get the servers up and […]

New Laptop

  • Posted by saucer
  • February 11, 2008

I purchased a new laptop computer for $699. For a Celeron, it works fine as an office suite I can take on the road.
It came pre-installed with Microsoft Vista Home Basic which worked fine. With one small tweak, it worked even better - I downloaded Fedora 8 as a live CD, booted up and it […]

bzip2 - Howto Compress and Decompress .bz2 files

  • Posted by saucer
  • January 23, 2008

bzip2 (.bz2 files) is a free and open source (BSD-style license) lossless data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.

Cpanel Custom Apache httpd.conf configuration

  • Posted by saucer
  • January 8, 2008

Cpanel has a new method of editing and configuring the httpd.conf config file.
See the following page which is quite useful:
http://www.jangro.com/a/2007/11/23/cpanel-easyapache-and-customizing-httpdconf/

Photo Gallery Error - .htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here

  • Posted by saucer
  • January 8, 2008

I currently upgraded Gallery which is a php photo gallery script - and a very good one, I highly recommend it.
I upgraded because I moved the site from an Ensim based dedicated server to a Cpanel based dedicated server. The site is hosted as a virtual host name.
I had some problems with Server 500 Errors […]