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Guv's Book: 'WordPress 3 Ultimate Security' - Press Release

the_guv — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:19 +0000

This doesn't just cover a handful of 'Top 10' tips. It addresses weakest links from local machine to web to site & server ... before some hacker does!

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Easy-as-you-like! Adapt Square Boxes with Hassle-Free Curves

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]
Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress Hack-Proof

UPDATE: June 2011.Inspired by this popular post, guv's WordPress 3 Ultimate Security, the first-ever book explaining in detail how to secure the popular blogging and content management platform, has been released. [...]
WordPress Upgrade Error Solved - Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()

If you've tried upgrading a recent version of WordPress and received this error... Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() ...here's what you do. In a nutshell, deactivate the plugin "WordPress [...]
Video How-to: Install WordPress - Nice 'n Simple

So you wanna blog, huh? And you've looked at the options, and like WordPress. Me too! And you like the expandability and personalisation that a WordPress standalone install gives, but are put off by the [...]
VPS Bible Reflects New Nginx/WordPress Versions, with Future Commitment

The VPS Bible has been updated to reflect the latest stable Nginx release - 0.7.62 - the effect that this has on the overall setup and, while we're about it, the latest stable WordPress release too. You may have [...]

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PayPal Support? You Must be Joking

the_guv — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:12:28 +0000

PayPal brands itself as "The faster and safer way to get paid". 17 emails to their "support" department later, they haven't answered a single question.

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PayPal: Can I Trust You With My Business?

PayPal brands itself as The faster and safer way to get paid. Really? I've used the service over many years and generally everything seems to work. Sometimes, though, their poor controls and irresponsibility takes [...]
Paypal Tip .. Get the Bloomin' Email Address Right!!!

So you secured the client, you're doing the work, everything's hunkydory and besides, it's a Friday. What could go wrong? Er, you got the client to pay a stranger .. (What happened to the Friday Fun spot, huh? [...]
Guvnr.com and Web Standards

There's a lot of talk about web standards. Here's some more. What are web standards? Rules for producing well-coded, user-friendly websites, set down by a very important and useful group of gordo-geeks, [...]
Facebook - Cool, huh! (Except They Want To Steal Your Content?)

If you use Facebook. And value your content and identity. You need to read this. A few weeks ago I wrote a series of posts about online anonymity and safe surfing. There was a section about social networks. [...]
Guvnr.com Feb 09 Blog Summary. What Did You Miss? And Coming Up In March...

A big thanks to you folks for supporting this blog. I hope it's handy. Whether 'yay' or 'nay', let me know, and especially tell me the kind of subjects you'd like to see covered. If any posts have been [...]

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PayPal: Can I Trust You With My Business?

the_guv — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:59:20 +0000

PayPal brands itself as "The faster and safer way to get paid". Really? It seems to depend on whether they want to play God with your business today.

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PayPal Support? You Must be Joking

The sham that is PayPal does not fail to disappoint. First they open a "case" for no apparent reason, having received no complaint and as I explained in PayPal: Can I Trust You With My Business? Then they steal [...]
Paypal Tip .. Get the Bloomin' Email Address Right!!!

So you secured the client, you're doing the work, everything's hunkydory and besides, it's a Friday. What could go wrong? Er, you got the client to pay a stranger .. (What happened to the Friday Fun spot, huh? [...]
Guvnr.com and Web Standards

There's a lot of talk about web standards. Here's some more. What are web standards? Rules for producing well-coded, user-friendly websites, set down by a very important and useful group of gordo-geeks, [...]

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Community Chest: The Sunny Side of the E-lance Coin

the_guv — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:18:51 +0000

It's no easy deal quitting the corporates to go e-lance, swapping the fast for the slow lane that is online blogjam. Sometimes tho', something happens.

Slightly Rude Preview: Lucid Lynx Bible Starts Monday

the_guv — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:00:40 +0000

Sorry, I've been tut'ing up a forthcoming how-to series about this new OS and I have to say, it's very hard not to sound like some kind of pervert.

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Lucid Lynx Review: Sweet! Get Ready for LTS

In advance of the new series of posts to show how to set up Ubuntu's latest Linux distro, Lucid Lynx, here are my initial thoughts about this important Long Term Support edition. Pros: Wireless works out of the [...]
Easy-as-you-like! Adapt Square Boxes with Hassle-Free Curves

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]
Preview: How to Surf Anonymously & Hide Your PC

How safe is your identity online, and your data offline? Quick heads-up. Because coming up, next week, here with the_guv... A comprehensive guide, spread over 5 posts, each detailing in non-geek-Greek, [...]
VPS Bible: Do I Really Have to Charge?

vpsBible.com has been live for nearly a week. It provides a niche home for the subject Setup Unmanaged VPS 4 Linux Noobs and I built it somehow to monetize the time it takes to produce these tutorials, while [...]
Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. The V-P-S Bible

Welcome to the_guv's 20 part VPS how-to bible, complete with video tutorials. If you are outgrowing your shared host, are paying big bucks for a managed VPS or want to rightsize from an old dedicated plan, this [...]

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Lucid Lynx Review: Sweet! Get Ready for LTS

the_guv — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:00:46 +0000

In advance of the Lucid Lynx Bible here are my initial thoughts about installing Ubuntu's latest Long Term Support edition and a new features summary.

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Slightly Rude Preview: Lucid Lynx Bible Starts Monday

Well, this may sound sad, and that's 'cos it is, but I've been salivating tongue-to-floor for months, waiting for the Ubuntans' latest release. .. Damn, time was, I used to be that way about the upcoming Oasis [...]
Cheap Host Review ... 6 Months on, Here's the Verdict

When I researched cheap-as-chips ISPs, 6 months ago, I got fed up with all the false friend posts, blog posts that sell you on whatever ISP - Lunarpages, IX, HostGator, GoDaddy, DreamHost, MonsterHost, HostThis, [...]
Review: Obama's Inauguration Online & the Web 2.0 Generation, a Partisan Party

If you were in any doubt about which demographic tipped the win for Obama, the online coverage of his big day held a pretty hefty clue. For anyone who was in front of their PC, surfing the news, it was apparently [...]
Easy-as-you-like! Adapt Square Boxes with Hassle-Free Curves

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]

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Alinghi, Way More Than Just a Boat

the_guv — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:55:29 +0000

The sailing community is packing its bags and heading off to far-flung horizons. I wonder how many of these transient types we'll ever see again.

VPS Bible: Do I Really Have to Charge?

the_guv — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:30:51 +0000

What I do want is to nurture a friendly, mutually beneficial, cooperative community with a first rate knowledge base. How I do that, I don't really care.

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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. The V-P-S Bible

Welcome to the_guv's 20 part VPS how-to bible, complete with video tutorials. If you are outgrowing your shared host, are paying big bucks for a managed VPS or want to rightsize from an old dedicated plan, this [...]
VPS Bible - VIDEO Tutorials Added

The video how-to guides accompany the 20-part copy/paste series, adding a visual reference to help you set up your virtual private server. the_guv is pretty chuffed to announce the release of a bunch of video guides [...]
VPS Bible Updated with New Nginx/WordPress Versions

The VPS Bible has been updated - and fully tested - to reflect the latest stable releases for Nginx (0.7.64) and WordPress (2.9.1). Dependency packages remain the same. The test, meanwhile, which followed the entire [...]
INTRODUCTION: The 25-Part Ubuntu KARMIC KOALA BIBLE

Detailing every aspect over 25 parts, this reference helps you to set up, enhance and use the ultimate installation of Ubuntu's superb new operating system. Stepped out in easy-read copy/paste detail, these how-to [...]
VPS Bible Reflects New Nginx/WordPress Versions, with Future Commitment

The VPS Bible has been updated to reflect the latest stable Nginx release - 0.7.62 - the effect that this has on the overall setup and, while we're about it, the latest stable WordPress release too. You may have [...]

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vpsBible.com - b. 9th Feb 2010, Fair Weight.

the_guv — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:05:05 +0000

vpsBible.com is go .. vpsBible.com is go .. vpsBible.com is go .. vpsBible.com is go .. vpsBible.com is go .. vpsBible.com is go .. vpsBible.com is go .. v

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Guvnr.com & vpsBible.com - Focussing on 2010

Sure, there has been a pause. A month, no less, and how weird is this: I feel like the kid at school who sidles into the classroom, totally late, hair strewn and face sheepish, having missed Assembly and, oh no, they [...]
vpsBible.com - What, Why & Other Q&A's

Those of you who've been following this blog will know I've taken steps to port the VPS Bible series to a new home of its own. In fact, that happens this week. By way of an introduction to the new site, the whys and [...]

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vpsBible.com - What, Why & Other Q&A's

the_guv — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:11:26 +0000

By way of a vpsBible.com intro, the whys & therefores, I figured it'd be nice to give my intrepid Guvnr community the inside track, so here's the FAQ!

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Guvnr.com & vpsBible.com - Focussing on 2010

Sure, there has been a pause. A month, no less, and how weird is this: I feel like the kid at school who sidles into the classroom, totally late, hair strewn and face sheepish, having missed Assembly and, oh no, they [...]
vpsBible.com - b. 9th Feb 2010, Fair Weight.

At last that damn site's gone live. Just in time for me to go to bed and catch up some sleep. Yeah right. Not quite. But it's there now, and I'll be using it as an example, here on Guv, as to how probably not [...]
Easy-as-you-like! Adapt Square Boxes with Hassle-Free Curves

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]