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Monthly Archives: April 2008

WordPress use Amazone S3 for storing images

WordPress.com use Amazon S3 for storing images, they do not serve images directly from Amazon, they use Varnish reverse proxy at front end, so not all images need to be served from S3, Varnish cache popular images and serve directly


My First Server Administration Screencast

Today server10 went down for some reason. While i fix the server, i made a screen cast as others can see how i fixed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHlhCO1NKM The problem was due to secondary IP’s of the servers are not bind to


Flash vulnerability

Most of the browsers now support Flash Animations. Flash swf files can be used to hack your computer with out any action from your side. What you have to do is just visit the site that have malicious code inside


Hiding Files Inside Image

You can hide files inside images. For example, if you have an image “myimage.jpg” and have a file “mysecretfile.rar”, you can combine the zip file with image, so most people only see it as just an image. To do this,


Clone Tutorial in after effects

This video shows how to make clone or double role videos with Adobe After Effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsxabWYwomM


eBay Scammer on Judge Judy

eBay Scammer sold pictures of cell phone for $400 got fine of $5000. eBay Scammer on Judge Judy


telaen – new webmail to replace uebimiau

Many use uebimiau web mail (pop3 mail reader script in php) as web mail on web servers. uebimiau have not upgraded recently, it seems the author is busy with other projects and have no time to update this web mail


YieldBuild – Make More Money from your web site

YieldBuild allow you to run many advertising network on your web site and make more money from it. The site will help to optimize your site inventory and let you run advertisements that pay you more. Find more about the


IIS change IP of all web sites

Today we moved all web sites from a windows server to another. After restoring IIS with HELM Restore Tool, all web sites IP was set to OLD IP address. Changing IP of sites one by one take lot of time.


MRTG Graph Droping

MRTG on a server shows the bandwidth usage increase or decrease sharply, it look like the web server is restarting too much. I have spend many hours looking into lighttpd web server as i thought web server is actually causing