On every OS X Lion installation a hidden partition is created to enable a method for Lion to be reinstalled on the machine, it is known as the recovery partition or drive and is 650mb in size. If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.7 already installed – but no …
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Stop Spam Subscriber New User Registrations on WordPress
If you have been getting a bunch of unwanted new user registrations on your WordPress website and are wondering what they are and where they are coming from, with such bogus email addresses mostly from the gmail.com domain like [email protected] do not fear, here’s what to do! It’s the spambots trawling through seeing where they can …
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How to make a bootable OSX 10.7 Lion Disc or Drive from the downloaded Lion.app
I know Apple are going away from optical media, pushing it the same way as the old floppy disk but heck it’s still nice to have a bootable OSX disk or drive in times of need. After downloading the Lion.App from the store aka “Install Mac OS X Lion”, control click it to bring …
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How to Disable the default Linux Firewall and use CSF
Some of the firewall scripts that come with various hosting companies can leave a lot to be desired, and tackling IP tables head on can be intimidating, here is how to disable the default firewall and use an industry standard one which provides both a CLI and GUI through cPanel using WHM or on non-cPanel …
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Fastest Way of Installing Drupal 7.22 on Mac OS X 10.7 , 10.6
Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 7 version on Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Drupal is a quality CMS application and is as simple or complex as your needs vary, it runs on the same foundations that Mac OS X Lion or Snow Leopard provides. This tutorial assumes a certain degree of comfort in …
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Change the Drupal Administration Appearance and Menu
Drupal 7 administration menu is quite a change from previous versions, in comes the administrative overlay which is like a partial transparent layer over the existing site. This is a subjective thing however I prefer to turn this off and have the backend looking opaque and to have a sense that it is a separate …
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Back up a VPS Web Host using SSH and SCP on Mac OSX 10.6
Using SSH and SCP you can copy your remote web VPS backups to your local machine in a secure manner and then by creating a back up script you can either run the script adhoc or schedule the process with a user launch agent. The first step is to create a SSH passwordless connection between …
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Scripting OS X Launchd Agent to run a Backup Command
In OS X 10.7 the launchd process is the process that kicks off all processes and launches launch daemons and launch agents. This effectively is what cron and cronjobs are to the general Unix/Linux environment Launch Daemons are typically system process whereas Launch Agents are processes that can be run by users. Launch Daemons are …
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