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VanDyke Secure CRT - bind: Permission Denied Error when connecting to Ubuntu SSH Server

When using Windows, I use VanDyke SecureCRT to connect to my Linux machines, which include servers running Red Had Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and the Debian-derived Ubuntu. Everything was working fine until today.
Though I was playing around with the SSH configuration files to get SFTP transferred files to set a specific file […]

How To Block an IP Address On Linux / Apache Server

I operate a number of websites, some quite large as far as total “number of pages.” Over the years, I’ve noticed an increasing number of poorly behaved web crawler applications - some completely ignore the robots.txt file, and more and more submit dozens of requests per minute. (eek!) For a site with […]

Automatically renaming files downloaded with Coast to Coast AM Media Center

I’m an insomniac.
I have trouble falling asleep at night because thoughts never seem to stop racing through my head - Did I do X yet? What if I did Y? Ooh, I could make it easier to do Y … Hey, I have a cool idea for an awesome invention… […]

Who is the largest Domain Name Registrar?

In a word (or two): Go Daddy. By Far.
According to webhosting.info, Go Daddy is blowing the competition out of the water. As of March 2008, 23.4% of all domain name registrations are done through Go Daddy, with another 3% through Go Daddy owned Wild West Domains.
Web hosting.info has this handy little […]

Use Gmail like a Power User to Fight Spam and Stay organized

Gmail tips and tricks
Gmail has been around for a few years, making its unique multi-threaded discussion format old hat to many internet users. Still, many users remain in the dark as to a number of Gmail power user tips and tricks, keeping them from unlocking Gmail’s full power.
Here, I run down a few useful […]

How to do a search and replace in multiple files using perl and linux

So you’ve got 100 files in a directory and you want to replace the string “foo” with “bar”. Stop before you waste your time opening up every single file and making the change, you can make all of the changes with a single line of perl.
perl -pi -w -e ’s/foo/bar/g’ *\.php
On his blog, […]

How to get Apache to parse HTML files as PHP

PHP is a language that is parsed and interpreted by the Apache web server. That is, all code execution takes place on the server side, not on the client side.
By default, Apache only parses files ending in extension .php as PHP files. If you need to tell Apache to also process files with […]

Another Reason to not use Gift Cards

Reports have retailer Sharper Image, currently undergoing a bankruptcy, is refusing to honor gift cards both in both its retail stores and online.
If you really needed another reason to stay far, far away from these ripoff gift cards, this is it.
So let’s sum up just a few reasons to not use gift cards:

Limited […]

How to take a screenshot in Windows XP

Unfortunately, Windows XP doesn’t come with the nice automatic screenshot utility like Mac OSX does. No worries, though - it’s still possible to take a screenshot with Windows XP, it just requires a few more steps.
One of these days, I am going to write a nifty screenshot utility that I’ve been planning for some […]

How to stop your posts from being flagged on Craigslist

I’m no Craigslist spammer, and this information isn’t intended to help the Craigslist spammers. On the contrary, I’m sharing this secret to help the many people out there who constantly find their legitimate Craigslist ads flagged simply because a large segment of the population doesn’t understand simple economics.
The Problem: You post an ad […]