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Guv’s Book: ‘WordPress 3 Ultimate Security’ – Press Release

Some of you will remember or first found this 'lil site off the back of a pretty well-known WordPress security blog post here, Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress [...]

Setting Up Ubuntu’s Koala – the_guv’s Verdict

Following on from my Ultimate PC Setup Guide, installing Jaunty, here's a look at the new kid, Karmic Koala. What's new, worse, better? My verdict .. Karmic Koala's out in a [...]

Categories: pc

Upgrading the System and Software

Once you have repositories set up and your system updated to reflect what upgrades, patches, packages, software, libraries and so on are available, it's time to [...]

Categories: pc

Review: Obama’s Inauguration Online & the Web 2.0 Generation, a Partisan Party

If you were in any doubt about which demographic tipped the win for Obama, the online coverage of his big day held a pretty hefty clue. For anyone who was in front of their PC, [...]

Categories: surfing

Maintain Unmanaged VPS – Part 4: Create or Bin MySQL DBs using the Terminal

This how-to guide maps out two pretty basic but handy MySQL operations, creating and binning a database, using the terminal interface. Sure, you can do those with, say, [...]

Categories: web development