Iperf is a nice little tool to measure networking performance/bandwidth. You need two computers for this. One is acting as the server listening for incoming connections. The other one is the client that connects to the server. If the connection …
Here are two code snippets for mail sending in PHP. 1. Sending a simple mail This is the code to send a simple mail. You only have to set a few variables and then call the mail() function. Unlike everything …
If you don’t use iTunes to play your music but an alternate media player (I recommend Cog) it might get very annoying that iTunes launches everytime you press your play/pause media key. There is a little but useful hack to …
In this tutorial I will describe how to enable SSL on an Apache2 webserver running on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine. The use of SSL is necessary if the communication between client and webserver needs to be encrypted. 1. Certificate …
Sometimes (I’m not sure under which circumstances) it happens that networkng in Mac OS gets broken. In this case you might not be able to establish a connection at all although you entered the IPs and everything. The easiest way …
This tutorial demonstrates the basic usage of PHP and MySQL. Everything is put together in the “index.php” file, except for the database connection which is outsourced to “db.php”. The code is fairly self-explanatory and contains the most commonly used commands …
If you do a lot of SSHing it might be annoying to remember all the passwords and having to enter them all the time. In this case it can be useful to use a keyfile instead of a password to …
If you use an RDP connection to administrate a Windows server, you might receive several “TerminalServices-Printers” Errors (ID 1111) in your System log each time you establish the connection, because RDP fails to redirect your local printers due to missing …
I don’t know why this happens, but everytime after a few weeks of using my Mac I always end up having multiple entries of the same programs in my “Open With” menu. It must be some kind of bug, probably …
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