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Thinking of getting hosting or a vps server for your web site, application or blog? Well now you can get it FREE for a whole year! Not only can you have free hosting, you...

How to remove ^M characters from a file

Sometimes you come across a file, maybe a config file for some application you have installed, that has a load of ^M chars at the end of each line.. perhaps because the file at one...

Easy install Subversion 1.6 on Centos 5

The version of subversion included in the default centos yum repos is a little old so to install the latest and greatest, this is all you need to do.. First install the rpmforge repo...

blank php pages – mystified?

A common problem with php applications is the inscrutable blank page. No matter what you do, nothing shows on the page, nothing shows in the apache error logs, nothing in the syslog.. you try...

Secure your web browsing with socks

Create an ssh connection to a server somewhere and proxy your web browsing over that secure connection.. On your pc or netbook or whatever you use for browsing, run this in a terminal.. ssh...

Tar & gunzip all files in a directory

If you have a directory with loads of *.tar.gz files and you need to extract them all, here’s a quick and easy way. Just run the following on the command line.. for i in...

SysOps Blog Launches

Today SysOps finally starts blogging! We will use this blog for SysOps announcements of course but also for posting various linux sysadmin tips and tricks we’ve picked up over the years. You can also...