Firefox, Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org software are among the winners Softonic Awards 2009. The competition, now in its 6th year, recognizes the best software of the year elected by the portal users Softonic. This year, all sites Softonic were able to participate in this vote, which concerned the platforms Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, Pocket PC and…

DreamPie is a Python shell which is designed to be reliable and fun and was designed from the ground up to bring you a great interactive Python experience: * DreamPie features a new concept for an interactive shell: the window is divided into the history box, which lets you view previous commands and their output,…

(Like you didn’t know this already… another top something or other number of random shite posted to garner more viewers… \O/  too funny) apps.KDE.com: KDE.com is a top resource for KDE (K Desktop Environment) Linux/Unix downloads. Enterpriseitplanet Linux Apps: This is a comprehensive directory of Linux downloads. Freshmeat.net: freshmeat.net maintains a large collection of Unix…

From http://bashscripts.info/

Create a .htaccess file Use an ASCII text editor like Notepad to create a text file with the following contents: AuthName “Secure Area” AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/to/your/directory/.htpasswd require valid-user Note that you will have to modify the above according to your situation. In particular, change: AuthName Change “Secure Area” to any name that you like….

The questions posed was “CPanel wont allow me to set MaxClients of apache to a number greater than 300. Even if the changes are made directly to the httpd.conf, and then distilled, the changes will not be saved once CPanel rebuilds the apache configuration using /usr/local/cpanel/bin/build_apache_conf. How can we make this change permanent?” In the…

You can manually specify from which IP addresses specific domains on your server should send mail with Exim. To do so, you will need to create and edit 2 files from the command line and disable one option in WHM’s Exim Configuration Editor interface. Note: You will need to have root privileges on the server…

BASH lesson 9: the for loop From http://bashscripts.info/

Go Daddy is committed to the open source community. We want your site and data to be secure – and we’re willing to foot the cost to make them just that. A Standard SSL Certificate proves to all involved that: Your domain name and domain control have been validated by an independent authority. Sensitive information…

Since the top 10 list is so “in” right now, I figured I would add to the noise and nonsense by providing this tongue in cheek version of my top 10 list of the top 10 lists for 2010. Yes, I know it’s only February but what the heck, it doesn’t really matter does it?…