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Authentication without password with SSH and rsync

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:58:12 +0100

There are a lot of articles on this issue. I'm writing this as a note to self, as I often tend to forget how to setup SSH authentication without password upon reinstalling the OS or changing SSH keys.

Mysql: host not allowed to connect

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:00:21 +0100

The issue I was encountering was that MySQL 5.1.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 was not allowing external connections, i.e. connections from a host different from the host the server is running on.

Adsense: no payment and it's past the 25th?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:35:25 +0100

I just found an useful piece of information for all of you that are anxious to receive Google AdSense payments.Of course, if you're verified, you reached the threshold last month, and you're not havng any payment holds, you expect Google to send you the money as usual, on the 25th of the month. Adsense My account section states You are scheduled to be sent a payment by the 30th of this month , but we all know it's regularily happening on the 25th.I even got a payment before the 25th, on the 24th of December(Santa may have been involved).Okay, If it's past the 25th and you're still waiting, here's the reassuring info: It's 8:14 AM in california and from what I've seen over the last 3 years, payments don't go out until after 9 or 10 am. I've never seen one go out over...

XP firewall: how to repair

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:27:35 +0100

This article details a few steps you can take to repair your windows firewall and ICS(Internet connection sharing)I had recently stumbled upon a problem with my XP machine, while trying to access advanced properties of a LAN(Local Area Connection) network connectionWindows XP reported a problem when I attempted to access Local Area Connection 1->Properties->Advanced

Registration of domain names

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:04:29 +0100

Registration of domain names: introduction, tips and links. Registering a domain name , buying domain names, setting up a web domain.

Pidgin not connecting? change pager host

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:57:33 +0100

Here's how to fix Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im) instant messenger if you experience Yahoo account connection problems.

Using Joomla 1.5 to cache expensive computations

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:59:40 +0100

Sometimes you need to preserve some computation results for a while, and have it refresh automatically. You may use this technique for periodic RSS fetching, or a really heavy SQL query. There are many more applications, of course.

Connecting to Joomla 1.5 from an external PHP script

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:25:51 +0100

Sometimes you need to access Joomla libraries and/or data from an outside script. You may need to sync users with a 3PD application, or maybe you're developing a fresh application, but you're used to Joomla style JTable database manipulation, and JRequest input filtering.

Joomla PHP: extending config.xml with plugins

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:24:50 +0100

This explains how to use Joomla 1.5 PHP API in order to render and save component parameters from multiple files. This way a developer can etend the parameters to allow, for example, component plugins

Joomla 1.5: enabling Google and browser cache

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:23:18 +0100

I just noticed upon launching a new domain powered by Joomla 1.5 that HTTP headers are designed to prevent caching and force the client (be it some crawler, robot, such as Googlebot, or a regular visitor's browser) to always request the page from the server.This is of little use if your articles are not changing over time. Forcing the client to request from server is good for sitemaps, or pages with ever-changing hot news.