Monthly Archives: February 2009

PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again!

Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 by Matti

Windows Scripting used to be horrible. You got a lousy language to write in – Visual Basic (especially coming from C-like languages) – and it just didn’t seem all that powerfull. Any action you wanted done, required quite a few … Continue reading →

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FTP & SELinux: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory

Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 by Matti

If you’ve created a new user, and assigned it a home directory, you might run into the following error message when you’re running SELinux in combination with FTP daemons (proftpd, vsftpd, …): 500 OOPS: cannot change directory. The message is thrown … Continue reading →

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IE8: Why?

Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009 by Matti

With IE8 closing up to a final release, and still having a bunch of bugs that don’t get fixed, I begin the wonder why Microsoft even bothers. Just think about it for a second – they have a big team … Continue reading →

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Disappearing Bottom Panel & Top With Firefox + Linux Mint

Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009 by Matti

I had this strange bug using Linux Mint + Firefox 3.x, where every time I would start the browser, it would load in a semi-full screen mode. It would cover my bottom bar (the “start menu”, as Windows-users would call … Continue reading →

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Plesk Update 9.0 to 9.0.1: Time To Open TCP 11444

Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 by Matti

If you’ve recently upgraded your Plesk installation to Plesk 9.0.1, you might find yourself locked out from Plesk all of a sudden. When browsing to your Plesk Controlpanel on port 8443, the top bar will load, but the login form … Continue reading →

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