Here are the steps I continue to use over and over to build utilities/project servers in OpenVZ. Utilities servers host web apps, mailing applications, etc for my company. We usually build them a...

In the Browser.php project John pointed out (in the comments) a terrible typo in the source. I imagine no one has encountered this before as it only effects v1 or v1.5 of Internet Explorer. Typo...

A while back I wrote a semi-popular post on removing images from a WordPress post – today I am revisiting it. The original solution used the_content() and the output buffer to remove the images ou...

I released v1.4 of the Browser.php project today to address a few features suggested by readers. This new release adds support for GoogleBot, Yahoo! Slurp, and the W3C Validator. Check out versio...

Based on a comment on the Browser.php page I added support for the iPod today. I opted to place both the iPhone and iPod as browsers even though they are likely using the same instance of Safari. ...

There are a lot of ways to backup an OpenVPS without powering them down. I have two critical VPS systems both operating phone/PBX apps (asterisk) which I need to backup and I cannot get them to ba...

All of our name servers I use are virtual servers and we add them into our network as OpenVZ VPS systems.  Here is the setup I use for setting up a Bind server on an OpenVZ VPS with CentOS 5. Setu...

If you are missing the dig command it means you are missing a package called bind-utils.  To install this package use yum to install bind utils: yum install bind-utils Or if you do not have acce...

We have a TFTP server running on our network and sometimes we need to get a handle on the requests on the server.  By default if you are using linux and the tftp server through xinetd you won’t hav...

We have a server in my office we reference a lot.  After X time period it would fall asleep and someone would have to hit the keyboard to see the latest information.  After digging for a bit (and n...