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Linux.conf.au – LCA2014 Perth visit (Part 1)
Recently i started talking to an amazing bunch of people, who had proposed, and been accepted to host the next Linux.conf.au in Auckland, New Zealand. I immediately requested to help, and be a part since i really love this sort of thing, and i want to give back. Since the whole idea was still very…
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Start up Stories: Cashboard
What is Cashboard? Cashboard is invoicing software that also handles employee timesheets, estimates, and online payments. It’s geared towards freelancers and small businesses. Who are you, what is your role at Cashboard? I’m the founder, main designer, and engineer of Cashboard. Sometimes I play server admin too, but usually I have to email you guys…
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WordPress Upgrade shell Script – plugins, themes, crontab and more!
2019: This script is still being maintained It’s been some time since i upgraded my wordpress upgrade script. Several reasons why, partially because i had patches from other people to merge in, partially laziness on my part (being busy with other things). However, the good news is, it is here, and its amazing and awesome…
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Kiwi PyCon 2013 Summary
For those who are unaware, Rimuhosting has sponsored a lot of conferences, particularly local ones including open source and tech related. We believe in giving back what you can to the community as much as possible . Peter, our wonderful boss, likes to encourage us to do the same, so often is happy to pay…
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Auckland Pycon tickets
As a sponsor of the New Zealand Pycon ( http://nz.pycon.org/), we are given a few free tickets for the event as well. We thought since we only have one staff member attending (Liz, who is speaking) that we should really not waste the other tickets we have. Since there are less females in the IT industry,…
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How to restore a WordPress site after hacks or exploits in 10 easy steps
A lot of people use WordPress, and seemingly a lot forget to click the upgrade button regularly enough and find they are exploited. In an ideal world, you would click that button whenever you see it needs updates, and have copious amounts of good backups. However, sometimes these things do not happen, and you need…
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How to install Drupal on Plesk – Step by Step instructions
We have had a customer who is not overly technical wanting these instructions. Since i thought he was probably not the only one wanting a simple step by step instruction on how to install drupal on plesk easily, i though i would put them on the blog for anyone else interested
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Old tomcat 5.5 installs being exploited
We have noticed a couple of people running older tomcat 5.5 installs, and these are being exploited . The main thing we noticed were slowdowns on bandwidth as well as CPU along with a few odd other things running as tomcat user eg www-data 20654 0.0 0.6 38616 8004 ? S 21:26 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2…
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Migrating email between IMAP accounts
Often when people switch servers, or move to new providers, transferring email can be problematic. If you are using POP3, the email is already on your personal computer, however if you are using IMAP then you are stuck trying to add a second account and drag and drop for each user, or similar. Never fear,there…