The importance of regularly backing up your data cannot be over emphasised or repeated often enough. Whilst all businesses are at risk from data loss, surveys continually indicate it’s the small businesses that are most at risk, with around 50% … Continue reading →

ssh keeps track of the systems it is connected to, and is able to tell you if a particular system has changed. It is a security feature – informing you about the change of a fingerprint of the system you … Continue reading →

1. View all emails in the mailqueue, with destination and mail ID exim -bp 2. If you have emails older than a day in the mail queue which don’t look like they’ll ever be delivered you can remove these; exiqgrep … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve had chance to learn that there is a fairly simple way to migrate MSSQL database to MySQL – I’ve run the test myself and succeeded – so if you fancy MySQL, go for it, but read what I’ve … Continue reading →

If you’re a die hard javascript aficionado and haven’t bothered to look at jQuery you might be thinking, what’s all the fuss about? The best way to explain is by a code example. The scenario is, your manager calls you … Continue reading →

The White Screen of Death (WSOD) is a problem often encountered when developing on Drupal. Usually, most debugging output from PHP is suppressed, so when a problem with the code is encountered, PHP stops and a blank screen is presented … Continue reading →

If you are running a server after the initial set-up, creating a redundancy plan in case of failure or accidental solutions is a must. The well known free backup solutions such as Bacula and Amanda now have some competition. Three … Continue reading →