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by Richard W | Oct 3, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Windows
Windows 8 comes with the Start Screen (Metro) by default. Windows 8.1 allows you to login directly to the desktop and bypass the Start Screen which came with 8. The start screen has some advantages and disadvantages. For those who love to boot Windows directly to the...
by Richard W | Oct 2, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Windows
Microsoft has just announced the release of Windows 10, but before you can go and get yourself a copy, hear this first; it’s not available just yet to be purchased. If you wish to install Windows 10, you must download the evaluation ISO copy or Windows 10...
by Richard W | Oct 2, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
This brief tutorial shows you how to install Joomla CMS on CentOS 7 with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB & PHP) support. Joomla is a free content management system (CMS) which allows millions of users and webmasters to publish beautiful and power webpages online....
by Richard W | Oct 1, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Since we’re all humans and we do forget at times, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to reset or recovery a forgotten users or root password on Ubuntu 14.04. We wrote the same tutorial for CentOS 7 users which was well received so we decided to write...
by Richard W | Sep 30, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web
Newer guide: this post is kept for reference and describes Ubuntu 14.04, which is no longer supported. For a current, tested walkthrough see how to install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 24.04 with Apache and MariaDB. Last week we showed you how to install and configure...
by Richard W | Sep 26, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Recently I was looking for a solution to remove or hide the website URL field on my comment form. By default, WordPress is shipped with a comment form with a name, email address and website fields. This has been the standard since the creation of WordPress CMS....
by Richard W | Sep 25, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
Newer guide: this post is kept for reference and describes CentOS 7, which is no longer supported. The current guide uses Ubuntu, but the idea of an Apache plus MariaDB stack is similar. For a current, tested walkthrough see how to install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 24.04...
by Richard W | Sep 24, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Sometimes you forget stuff. I do. I forget important passwords for important websites sometimes. Retrieving your forgotten passwords for most websites is easy, all one has to do remember few details that were used when signing up for the service to get a password...
by Richard W | Sep 23, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
Few weeks ago we showed you how to install VSFTPD in Ubuntu. We also said because FTP implemented in its standard form is inherently insecure, it’s recommended to enable FTP over SSL/TLS encryption or secure FTP (SFTP). This brief tutorial is going to show you...
by Richard W | Sep 22, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
It seems like HTTPS is the future now that Google is recommending that all websites be encrypted with SSL over HTTP. If you haven’t heard, Google announced that websites and webpages that are encrypted will rank higher than those that are not when people search...
