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3 Affordable Stock Photography and Vector Art Websites

May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments

As a web developer and blogger I’m always looking for affordable photos and illustrations to use in CodeHill and the other websites I work on. I’ve been using these three stock photography websites for a while now, they provide good quality images for reasonable prices.

Filed Under: Interesting Links

Streaming Music and Videos with GNUMP3d

May 20, 2010 | 1 Comments

I have been trying different streaming servers the past few days for a project I’m working on. Out of the ones I tested so far none was as easy to install and configure as the GNU Streaming MP3 / Media Server (GNUMP3d). So I thought I should write post about it for those who are [...]

Filed Under: Linux

Ubuntu Facts

May 17, 2010 | 0 Comments

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that has one of the largest online communities. It is based on Debian the community-based distribution and is a trademark of Canonical Ltd which is also its largest sponsor.

Filed Under: Linux

Detect if you are Running a Virtual Machine

May 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

Would you like to know if your server’s OS is running on bare-metal or on a virtual machine. imvirt and virt-what are 2 Linux scripts that allow you to do so easily. Both are open source and can be downloaded from their websites and Ubuntu’s Synaptic Package Manager as well.

Filed Under: Linux, Web Hosting

Banning IPs using .htaccess

May 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

One of the many features the file .htaccess provides for a website is the ability to ban IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses from accessing it. This could be useful when a spambot, scrapper or leecher is consuming your bandwidth.

3 Comics from XKCD

May 6, 2010 | 0 Comments

Online Package Tracking

Filed Under: Funny

2 Ways to Redirect URLs in PHP

May 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

The ability to redirect URLs in PHP can be very handy. A common use of redirects is when a page has become obsolete and you would like to redirect the user to a more current one. Affiliate marketers use URL redirection to point to their products. This way when the product they are marketing is [...]

Filed Under: PHP