On some websites, I really don't want to use free email address for contact, but spam email is an endless war. Google App allows me to use my own domain as email address, I can also enjoy all the power... ...

There is really no any reason to continue using PHP 4 and MySQL 4 except being lazy. The upgrade was quite smooth and took about 1.5 hours including compiling time. Upgrade MySQL 4.0.27 to MySQL 5.0.51a This guide explained it... ...

Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, welcome to the Year of Rat! I wish everyone a happy and fruitful new year!... ...

The server debug (Debug as PHP web page) in Eclipse is quite confusing. For example: - It always opens the browser despite the setting 'Open in Browser' is unchecked. - The Apache error often pops up without a clue. It... ...

As a long time C++ and Java developer, I have managed to modify/debug some PHP scripts with the help of PHP manual, but I haven't never spent time learning it. I don't dare to start a PHP project without systematical... ...

PDT User Guide in the help manual is very helpful, I followed its 'Basic Tutorials' smoothly until I tried the debug part. The server debug configuration is confusing to me. After lots of attempts, I finally got Eclipse working with... ...

I used default port number 22 for sshd, the server got lots of login attempts every day which left thousands of lines in daily security run output. There are several variables related to port range in sysctl, mine is different... ...

After I changed the ssh port, combined with the changes of net.inet.tcp.blackhole and net.inet.udp.blackhole, now the server is completely free of ssh login attempts. I realized these two changes should be made together, it doesn't make much sense to change... ...

Several months ago, I switched to pure-ftpd from proftpd for my Linux VPS and FreeBSD server, but I didn't test the anonymous login on Linux, just found it's enabled by default!! Fortunately, it wasn't abused. If someone used it for... ...

It's been one year since I started using FreeBSD. I still remembered the first day when I got the server, I was wondered why nothing worked on the server, no command completion, no wget :-). It was a fresh FreeBSD... ...