Magento seems like a very good e-commerce application and for the most part is pretty intuitive but the following may help for future reference:Supported Payment GatewaysThere is a list of the supported Payment Service Providers on the features... » More
A while ago I did a fruitless search for my father for a Bridge card game on Linux but didn't turn up much of interest. However, I recently read in www.LinuxFormat.co.uk (great magazine) about Contract Bridge which costs £15 including CD and... » More
When writing my first powershell script to check free disk space on a dozen exchange servers I picked up a few useful things for future reference.Echoing output to the command lineA script can print/write output to stdout using Write-Host "Hello World"... » More
The CycloDS Evo is one of many flash carts for the Nintendo DS / lite. This modification card is used in conjunction with a Micro SD card on which you can store games, music, videos and even a linux distribution. For this I used: a Nintendo DS LiteThe... » More
I tried a few options for downloading documents from GoogleDocs, some methods are geared more for synchronising one document at a time but I needed something to take a full backup of all my GoogleDocs for offline sharing. I found the Google Doc Download... » More
Create a directory for the mountpoint:mkdir /mnt/mywinserverTemporarily mount: mount -t cifs //1.2.3.4/LogFiles /mnt/mywinserver -o username=jonny,password=letmein For a more permanent mount edit /etc/auto.master file add a line like:... » More
I had a few difficulties with playing video on Ubuntu with false/inverted colours so the reds were blue, and also so jitters in the video play.I followed the instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610501 and for the time being the... » More
Useful for monitoring DoS attacks: netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
cPanel allows for adding some apache and PHP modules using the web interface (and a script they call easyapache). This can be found under Software > Apache UpdateAfter installing mod_security the main configuration file is found at:... » More
To use the same phpMyAdmin installation to service several MySQL servers edit the config.inc.php file and add the following lines - don't forget the $i++ line:$i++;$cfg = 'cookie'; $cfg = 'mysql.server.com';$cfg = 'tcp';$cfg =... » More
