So you are an individual with a passion for doing something big or someone who wants to share his ideas with the world. For both reasons the best way to make your name would be building a website. Perhaps, there could be many reasons you want a site. Maybe for your small business, an art website to lighten up the world with a fire inside your soul, create amazing ideas or just to spread...
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The number of internet users has grown from 100 to 3+ billion. Although a lot of firms have benefited from the internet revolution, many businesses have become bankrupt. eCommerce platforms have destroyed the business of 1000s of brick and mortar stores. The only way to survive the wrath of these sites is to make people aware of your shop/service and the products you sell. Listing a business...
Godaddy is one of the top domain registrars and hosting companies of the world. It has over 500K customers. I’m one of the customers of Godaddy. I’ve been using its email hosting and domain registration service for 5 years. Here’s my review of the company. List of GoDaddy services that I use Domain names Premium email address Domain names Godaddy website is user-friendly. It...
Unlike search engines that rank pages on the basis of various factors, Social networking portals display posts in groups and on pages in first-in-last-out order. If the page is old, you’ll have to scroll down the group until you find it. If the title of the post is interesting, people will share the post on their profiles or in groups they’ve joined. Such pages are called viral posts...
Most hosting companies have introduced 2+ plans. The price of the hosting depends on the hardware and software the company is offering the customer. A plan that offers a low amount of RAM or a single core processor will be less expensive as compared to a plan that provides heaps of system memory and CPU. No matter what plan you use, you must always keep an eye on the server CPU usage. If you...
How Can We Help? Search Print The trash folder can be found at: /home/username/.local/share/Trash Replace username with your username. The trash folder can also be accessed using the Graphical User Interface by opening the File Manager. Once opened, press the key combination CTRL+H to view all hidden files and folders. Open the .local folder, then the share folder and then finally...
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Open a new Terminal Window (Command Line) if in GUI mode
Find your username by typing the command: whoami
Type in the command id username to find your gid and uid
EXAMPLE of results: uid=1000(username) gid=1000(username) groups=1000(username) ,4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom), 46(plugdev),106(lpadmin),121(admin),122(sambashare)
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~/.local/share/Trash/files
you can access it by typing in the command below:
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How Can We Help? Search Print The timezone that’s active on your system is stored in the file /etc/localtime First make a backup of the existing localtime file mv /etc/localtime /etc/locatime.backup Now we create a link so that the timezone auto updates when updates come through ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Johannesburg /etc/localtime In the above change Africa/Johannesburg to the...
How Can We Help? Search Print Delete the Komodo directory that the Komodo Edit installer created. If you do not know where that directory is use the locate command on the command line to locate the Komodo folder. eg. locate komodo Once found delete the Komodo Edit 6 folder sudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/Komodo-Edit-6/{/bash} Replace USERNAME with your name or user name that you use to loginTo delete...
How Can We Help? Search Print Although there are many reasons why this error message might appear, one of the reasons is that the mail account giving the error shares the same inbox as another mail account. In this case it could most likely mean that the Message Store Type is different for each mail account. To check the message store type click on Tools->Account Settings Then click on Server...
A project I was recently working on had in place a cloud-based infrastructure that was designed to support a single installation of the Drupal CMS running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This infrastructure included an auto-scaling setup with load balancers hosting a ‘cache’ layer and an ‘application’ layer that hosted the Drupal CMS. On the backend tier, an AWS Relational...
Academy Pro is a premium WordPress theme developed by StudioPress. It has a brilliant design and many features. It is ideal for membership and educational websites. Academy Pro is powered by Genesis framework and it looks great on all types of computing devices. Here’s my review of this theme: Academy Pro review Like other StudioPress templates, AP is easy to install. Once you download the...
Because of erroneous PHP and Java extensions, I’ve switched from Atom to Microsoft’s VSCode aka Visual Code Editor for writing applications. VSCode is a powerful editor. With the help of some extensions, you can use VSCode as a replacement for RAM hogging Integrated Development Environments. If you’ve just installed VScode and you’re searching for extensions that will...
Organizations continue to struggle with policies and processes to effectively secure their infrastructure to protect their information assets and intellectual property. In recent years, we have seen the increase of cyber-attacks and breaches to the point that they have become common news worldwide. As systems have grown in complexity with increased capacity to store large amounts of data, so to...
WordPress is the most powerful content management system. According to analytics tools, WP powers 30% of websites running on the internet. WP is a popular and user-friendly CMS. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL to save data. Unlike scripting languages such as JAVA EE, ASP, PHP is easy to learn. Shared hosting companies offer a 1-click WP installer tool. If you use this tool, you can launch a...
Affiliate programs are great alternatives to PPC and CPC networks. Once you join an AP, you’ll get access to tools that will allow you to build affiliate links. A webmaster/website owner must use the tool to generate affiliate links. Once you generate a link, paste it into the blog posts. When a visitor clicks the link and buys a product from a website, you’ll earn a commission. To...
This is post 12 of 12 in the series “Digital Forensics” Important Cybercrime Laws Yet More Theft of Information Assets Preparation Phase of a Digital Search Data Hiding and Steganography Confusion over Terminology Presenting Digital Evidence Remote Access Trojans Malicious Code Detection What is the Role of Computer Forensics? Forensics in Business Continuity Planning An analysis of...
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