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Shell Script To Auto Restart Apache HTTPD When it Goes Down / Dead

Posted by on February 19, 2012 at 10:23 am

After having some issues with my server recently, with Apache suddenly stopping and switching off, I decided that I should do something to fix this and restart the web server in the event it switches off whilst I am out or unavailable to fix it. The following is a nice article from nixCraft (http://bash.cyberciti.biz/web-server/restart-apache2-httpd-shell-script/) which [...]

GarageBand on the iPad 2

Posted by on February 14, 2012 at 11:44 pm

I thought I would take sometime to post an article on my new favourite way to spend my spare time on my new iPad2 during my coffee breaks and lunch breaks, which is GarageBand on the iPad2! I nabbed this little app shortly after I got my pad for the rather modest sum of £2.99, [...]

Birthday Presents

Posted by on February 14, 2012 at 11:13 pm

So my birthday has passed once again, and this year I got some rather nice, techy, gadgets so I thought I would post them up here for everyone to take a look at. My two main presents this year were an iPad2 and a HTC Sensation XE First the iPad! The nice thing about the [...]

Droid Smart Phones

Posted by on January 10, 2012 at 1:30 pm

With my birthday coming up I decided to spend an evening looking at the latest DROIDs out there at the behest of my beloved as she keeps yelling at me to pick something out for my birthday, whilst I am busily working and coding away on the next big thing. So I did some searching [...]

Mixxx

Posted by on January 7, 2012 at 1:20 pm

Thought I would write a new entry for the cross platform MP3 DJ Tool Mixxx which I found lurking in the Ubuntu software center the other day. In its own description Mixxx is “free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes”, and it doesn’t lie! Mixxx is available [...]

Choosing a web designer

Posted by on December 7, 2011 at 10:25 pm

Choosing a web designer is a crucial decision, as a good website can bring you more business and a bad one can drive away prospective customers. Below are some important things to consider when selecting a website designer for your project. What to look for in a good web designer Many clients have difficulty choosing [...]

Proxy an SSH Tunnel to the network

Posted by on November 8, 2011 at 2:10 pm

This is a follow up to my previous article on using SSH Tunnels to setup a securely encrypted proxy over SSH. Introduction This basically covers the obvious next step of sharing the securely encrypted private SSH Tunnel with other computers on your network as it is only available locally to the connected machine normally.So having [...]

BuddyPress

Posted by on November 4, 2011 at 9:30 am

http://www.thenewsinlondon.co.uk/ I spent a bit of time this afternoon building a website to demonstrate the speed at which a site can be built with BuddyPress. Building a portal page for London with a news feed from a variety of sources, live chat, a forum, user registration, user blogs, classifieds, and more to demonstrate the power [...]

SSH Tunneling, Private Secure Encrypted Browsing over SSH

Posted by on October 27, 2011 at 8:16 am

SSH Tunneling This morning I have been looking at SSH Tunneling, a trick which is as old as the hills in computer terms. The idea is to route all traffic over an SSH connection effectively encrypting it and hiding your local network behind a remote machine. Simply put it creates a secure encrypted proxy. Perhaps [...]

Webcam

Posted by on October 17, 2011 at 4:36 pm

Thought I would add a quick blog post, to say that my office webcam is up and running again over at http://www.stephen-phillips.co.uk/webcam.html featuring chat that I rarely ever log into, and a flowplayer based music playlist for you to enjoy whilst watching me sit here and code PHP! Stephen PhillipsFreelance Web DeveloperE: admin@southdevonwebdesign.co.ukW: http://www.southdevonwebdesign.co.uk Article [...]

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