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From article.gmane.org From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh <at> centos.org> Subject: Release for CentOS-5.5 i386 and x86_64 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.centos.announce Date: 2010-05-14 22:32:30 GMT (7 hours and 57 minutes ago) We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.5 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.5 is based on the upstream release EL 5.5 and includes packages from all variants…

For sh1tz & gigg13z… Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes By Lucy A. Snyder From strangehorizons.com Let’s face it: any script kiddie with a pair of pliers can put Red Hat on a Compaq, his mom’s toaster, or even the family dog. But nothing earns you geek points like installing Linux on a…

If you ever recursively chmod public_html to something terrible, this script will restore files back to their typical/default permissions. cd to the public_html directory, and run the command: perl Hit enter, and then paste this code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w sub scanDir { my $dir = shift; opendir (DIR, $dir); foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) { next if…

From smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best…

Hummingbird lets you see how visitors are interacting with your website in real time. And by “real time” we don’t mean it refreshes every 5 minutes—WebSockets enable Hummingbird to update 20 times per second. Hummingbird is built on top of Node.js, a new javascript web toolkit that can handle large amounts of traffic and many…

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core,…

Just a heads up peeps… With version 11.25.1, cPanel introduces the Database Mapping feature. This feature lays the groundwork for providing more flexibility in naming databases and database users. In the past, cPanel has always appended an account’s username to any database name or database username created by the account (for example, a database might…

From fadeyev.net couple of months ago I migrated UsabilityPost from WordPress to Toto and am really enjoying the switch. Toto is a tiny blogging engine by Alexis Sellier (creator of LESS) that on the face of it appears so simple, and yet is able to do so much. Toto stores all your posts as text…

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In case you happen to come across this, cPanel released a new EA3 build today around 1PM, which updated the PCRE libs for Apache, PHP, mod_security, etc.., but they forgot to put in UTF8/Unicode support. They caught this shortly after the release and updated the new EA3 build. If you come across any errors with…