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Just a short and simple way to improve reading performance for SATA Drives.

When you disable the command queueing on the drive, you will allow the kernel to do this solely on its own, which results in overall better performance.
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Showing an easy way of copying your files to an remote FTP Server.
Continue reading ‘How to: Backup to FTP with NCFTP’ »

This is just a short how to to get pdf-lib 4.0.1 (freeware) working on Debian Etch, without compiling php from source. I’m going to use pear to compile the php – pdf Extension.
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I have updated my Munin Plugin so it will nolonger depend on PHP to be installed.
It will allow you to easily monitor your running VE’s stats with Munin.
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Please make sure your familiar with SysCP, Apache and your Server.
Since i’m using SysCP to manage my Vhosts i created a script to do the Nginx SiteConfiguration.
Continue reading ‘How to: Use SysCP Panel with Nginx + Apache2 * Update 2’ »

Here is an simple way of exporting your Local Users and import them back somewhere else.
To retain the user password, use the -p flag which will allow the use of a pre-encrypted password.
Continue reading ‘How to: Export + Import Linux Users.’ »