A Child Theme in WordPress is a theme that takes all the juice out of its parent without doing much itself, pretty much like regular kids. This guide explains what a Child Theme is and how to create one for the latest version of WordPress 3.6. The core benefit of a child theme is that …
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How to make your SSH Terminal shell sessions last longer on OSX
If you find that your SSH shell sessions to remote computers are timing out too quickly with the error “Write failed: Broken pipe”, you can make a simple configuration to keep these sessions going as long as you have your terminal shell window running:
How to format a USB external disk for Mac OSX using Disk Utility
All external USB disks can be formatted to work on Mac OSX, but not always straight out of the box. In this tutorial we look at formatting disks via the GUI app called Disk Utility and its equivalent command line tool diskutil. This will work in all modern versions of Apple Mac OSX including 10.9 …
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Restarting Apache Web Server from the command line
To restart, start or stop Apache web server from the command line interface using either Linux or Mac OSX, use the commands below, these commands should be executed as the root user otherwise prefix them with ‘sudo‘
How to find out which WordPress template is being used in a Theme
How do you quickly find out which template in your WordPress theme is being used without systematically going through each template? WordPress uses a structure of templates formed in a hierarchy of importance, when one isn’t there it falls back to the next in the chain. Click for a closer look If you want to …
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Backing Up a VPS cPanel Server to Amazon S3 Bucket
Some webhosts offer remote backup storage at a cost, some do random weekly backups and don’t like to talk about it – but will do a restore on request at a cost. With cheap available cloud service at hand why not shift that back up data totally offsite up to the cloud. Here is a …
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Create an up to date image of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Using InstaDMG
This is an introductory tutorial on using InstaDMG, a OSX package and image maker, to create clean never booted disk images of OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. Previous tutorials on InstaDMG and OSX 10.7 has three parts, base image, base image + user, base image + user and system modifications. For those not familiar InstaDMG is …
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Is Yours Good Enough to take on the Mavericks?
Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.9 Mavericks between September-November this year. At this stage of the game the new OSX will run on pretty much the same machines as its predecessor OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. You’ll need a 64bit Intel processor, 8GBs of free disk space – if upgrading as appose …
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