What we all know is the backup is for whimps. This song might show the importace of taking backup to not make a system admin more depressed.

It’s not difficult to run a website without using expensive applications like plesk. It’s really not that difficult to setup a subdomain or site yourself. Here I will show an easy method of setting up subdomains. Though this might not be a perfect way of doing it. At least it easy, and you have the site up and running in 5 minutes. more…

Just as I thought EA couldn’t get any more worse then what we’ve seen with Spore, I read this Norwegian article about EA and it’s alleged new policy. For the non-Norwegian readers, this article basically talks about a post in the EA forum by a EA-employee

Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned.

Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you’d actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It’s all one in the same, so I strongly reccommend people play nice and act mature.

Now this is really crazy! Apparently, if EA don’t like what you do on their forum or anywhere else for that matter, you’ll be locked out of your own games! If this is really true, then I’ve never ever seen such a distasteful treatment of customers in my entire life. True, the victims here are most likely not mom’s angel, but they’ve still got rights, and this isn’t mentioned in the TOS. Not that I’m a lawyer or anything, but I think it’s illegal to steal, and if EA regards piracy as stealing, then this is definitely stealing too! So congrats EA, you just became a thief!

Update:  Thankfully, it turns out that this is just a misunderstanding. EA will NOT ban you from you game.

This might be a beginners topic for most of the people out there, but the dns setup can be a bit confusing. This is just a short guide for how to setup an easy setup. Nothing complicated, and no fancy-pancy setup. This example will show how to setup an domain example.tld with three sub domains and mail. more…

As we all know, Microsoft is a very innovative company. They proved that by making Windows VistaX, and today they’ve proven it yet again by showing off their new OS, Windows KDE. Just take a look: more…

One thing I’ve noticed about tutorials regarding the config of apache towards trac in a plesk environment are rather lacking. I’ll use this short guide to show an easy method of adding the plesk interface as a python module of apache. more…

No, I’m not joking. As of last Saturday, the development team of PHP decided that backslash will be the new namespace separator in PHP, replacing :: which has been used up until now. The reason for this is quite alarming to be honest. A bug. more…

One thing that really annoy me these days is the unrestricted enthusiasm for PHP and Unicode, primarily in the form of UTF-8. These people seem to think that Unicode is some fantastic thing they just have to use even though a single byte charset like ISO-8859-1 is more than sufficient for their need. Don’t get me wrong, Unicode is good and everything, but not when you’re using PHP. Why? Because PHP by itself does not support Unicode. Now I know alot of people will object and say that there is mbstring. If you’re one of them, please read this carefully: mbstring is a Swiss cheese. Now I know alot of people is not using mbstring and basicly is using Unicode (most likely UTF-8) blissfully unaware of it’s dangers. So before I get into why mbstring is a horrible piece of coding, I’d like to explain why you shouldn’t use Unicode without some measures. more…