By Ed Reckers on October 10, 2011
If you need to list the number and names of sites hosted on a single shared host (by IP address) you can use the following two services: http://spyonweb.com/ http://w3who.net/ Alternatively, you can follow these steps: First Lookup the DNS Server: http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=[A Website.Ext] Then Whois the Domain Server: http://whois.domaintools.com/[The Domain Server Name Above.Ext Alternatively, Bing can [...]
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By Ed Reckers on August 18, 2011
If you are changing domains because of a re-brand or for some reason aggregating content, you’ll need to make sure that the change is done flawlessly. Since Google is basically the end all and be all of search, I’ve consulted their resources. There are two basic links to review: Google Webmaster Central – Moving Your [...]
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By Ed Reckers on July 22, 2011
Stupid simple command to change ownership (chown) and change group (chgrp) at the same time. To simultaneously change both the owner and group of files or directories in linux use the following command structure: chown someusername:somegroupname filename.ext You can man chown and man chgrp for more information on what those actually do and for further [...]
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By Ed Reckers on June 27, 2011
Backing up Mozilla Thunderbird email on Windows 7 is a simple process of archiving your Thunderbird profile. Follow these steps to backup emails for Thunderbird on Windows 7: Step 1 Close Mozilla Thunderbird Step 2 Viewing Hidden Files and Folders select Start menu search “folder options” and select Folder Options select View tab select “Show [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 7, 2011
Just took care of a streaming issue on my Sprint HTC Evo for Grooveshark, a streaming music service. There’s a number of forum posts on the internet, most on Android forums discussing it, but I saw a hell of a lot of noise. There were just too many differing “solutions” which seemed not to match [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 4, 2011
Ok, I know there are man pages, I know there are hundreds of posts on the internet explaining linux user groups, and I know there are posts everywhere explaining how to add users to groups in Linux. However, every single time I need a quick reference, I just can’t seem to find a good clean [...]
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By Ed Reckers on May 15, 2010
There are many out there who believe Google Analytics does not provide hourly reporting in their traffic reports. The main question is if Google Analytics provides hourly statistics or traffic reports broken down by hour for a particular day. With the help of an existing post from Get Satisfaction titled, “In Google Analytics is there [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 5, 2010
I’ve got a site on the Ning Network and started getting killed by spammers one day. I wanted to make sure that I was able to approve any new members. What the spammers were doing was just signing up with descriptive member names (ie. buy viagra today) and then immediately posting their junk. This isn’t [...]
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By Ed Reckers on February 16, 2009
I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades. In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I’m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. I host on my own Linux server and use Godaddy to manage my domains. My [...]
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By Ed Reckers on January 26, 2009
Smashing Magazine again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to protect a WordPress administrator area. All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well worth it: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/ A number of their steps rely on the most recent version of [...]
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