Monthly Archives: February 2009

PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again!

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

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?

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

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

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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