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. Read more…
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3 Affordable Stock Photography and Vector Art Websites
Streaming Music and Videos with GNUMP3d
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 thinking of running a streaming server at home or on their web servers.
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Ubuntu Facts
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.
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Detect if you are Running a Virtual Machine
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. Read more…
Banning IPs using .htaccess
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.
