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Amazon Affiliate – Refined Searches

I read with some interest two posts on the Amazon Affiliate Blog today, and learned some useful information! The first one is for refining search results when linking to Amazon, here are the bits you need to know: &keywords= Will link to specific keywords in the...

FinchSync for Mozilla

Those of you who spend enough time with me by now will know that I’m a bit of a fan of Mozilla and in particular like most of the world at the moment – Firefox. I’d love to switch to all Mozilla products, but until now have been unable to do...

Exim Restarting – PRM

Paragonhost has a very useful post on setting up custom PRM rules (Process Resource Monitor). I think this maybe the cause of so much load on one of my servers recently, as the exim process is getting killed early and not being allowed to finish a queue run –...

Restarting Apache/httpd

Did a little bit of Apache reading after a client query yesterday, it seems restarting httpd is not all that it seems! start – start httpd startssl – start httpd with SSL enabled stop – stop httpd restart – restart httpd if running by sending a...

Are magic quotes on?

One way to check if magic_quotes is running is to run get_magic_quotes_gpc(). It will return a 1 if it is on, or a 0 if it is off. You can use this result to print out the magic_quotes status, or to decided if you should run another function, such as addslashes. Read...