Tutorials and Tips
18 December 2008 by oxyk
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products - the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of Continue Reading »
18 December 2008 by oxyk
I was curious what is Mac OS, and was excited to know there’s distros for AMD. I had old JAS 10.4.8 distro and tried to install it, but the first attempt failed - there was no drivers for my video card - ATI Radeon HD 3650. Then i’ve tried to install iDeneb 10.5.2 but it never started to boot… Continue Reading »
18 December 2008 by oxyk
Today i was up to post some tuts, but forgot my pass to admin area 
Requested email with link to reset password was broken. So I’ve done very simple thing to gain my access.
I have test wp blog on my local server, and obviously i do remember my passwords for it. So i’ve opened phpmyadmin, table wp_users and copied the encrypted pass. Then i’ve inserted it into the same place instead of lost pass.
Sweet and easy
18 December 2008 by oxyk
Apache/php installation on Ubuntu works out of the box. However, some features not available and must be installed manually.
If you had a chance to develop captchas or other image rotating related pages, you may notice that on Ubuntu the images are not visible. Phpinfo () have records about installed GD, but…
Here’s the way how i’ve solved this ussue with my Ubuntu 8.04. Continue Reading »
1 May 2008 by oxyk
A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft’s Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box remained standing following the three-day competition.
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30 April 2008 by oxyk
Recently was released Wordpress 2.5.1. In this version was fixed 70-80 bugs from 2.5 but left some fun things.
According to numerous reports by individuals and a ticket filed in the WordPress Trac when a user resets their password, the password reset link received in the email does not work.
Bug-fix will be included in 2.5.2 version.
30 April 2008 by oxyk
There have been three large cracks in the near past which should make everyone worry who bases his or her IT on Microsoft’s products: PlayForSure, Outlook Express with Hotmail, and OOXML in new MS Office 2007.
30 April 2008 by oxyk
If you have installed Wordpress 2.5 with Fantastico, probably you can notice a wrong charset of russian or other text in Wordpress. How to fix wrong charset?
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