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vBulletin: Enable Signature after Certain Number of Posts or Days of Registration

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vBulletin allows all newly registered users to create and edit signatures by default, which potentially increases the spam in user registrations. Someone would just sign up and put a few spamming backlinks in the signature and leave, without contributing a little bit to the community, probably writing 1 or 2 spamming posts as well. Therefore, …

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Jointly Hosted – Non-profit shared dedicated hosting service

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Jointly Hosted is one of our latest ventures. Basically it’s a non-profit shared dedicated hosting service that provides dedicated hosting at shared hosting price tag, yet much better in terms of server performance than other shared solution providers. How do we do that? We make no profit by selling servers themselves. The server is provided …

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How to get rid of “Powered by vBulletin” in the homepage title of a vBulletin forum?

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By default the homepage of all freshly installed vBulletin forum will have a title trailing of ” – Powered by vBulletin”. While it’s forbidden to remove the copyright notice from the footer if you haven’t bought the anonymous license, you are allowed to wipe out this title trailing. How does one do that? First log …

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My confession as required by the US government

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As far as fellow bloggers and affiliate marketers are concerned, there’s an update of new rules to the FTC guidance of how to give endorsements and testimonials in advertisements and affiliate promotions. The giver of endorsements and testimonials for the promotion and marketing of a product or service should make clear of the behind-scene material …

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Dropbox review — the most intuitive online backup storage, data synchronizing and files sharing software

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I’ve tried quite a few online backup services to back up my valuable website data — you just can’t imagine what a nightmare it would be to lose all the files that you’ve been working on for the last half year — I even created my own backup programs that automatically syncs and stores designated …

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You can actually use percentage values for padding and margin

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Which seems quite new to me as I have never used any percentage values on them before. Took some tests and I found out that all major modern browsers supported percentage values for padding and margin very well, even IE6. This should come very handy in positioning things up according to the parent width. See …

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Linux: How to open and extract an RAR zipped file and unrar the archive?

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Funny I should use “zipped” for an RAR compressed package. Anyway, you can easily zip or unzip a zip file or tar compress a package, but how does one do it with an RAR file? WinRAR is well distributed across all Windows systems. But on Linux, you have to first install the command package rar. …

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Best way to hide and cloak your affiliate links?

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One may first think of using JavaScript to do this by dynamically changing the windows status bar URL, but unfortunately this trick doesn’t work across Firefox browsers. The truth is the visitor or clicker will eventually find out that they’ve been referred to the affiliate merchant by you from the ultimate landing URL — sometimes …

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scp, rsync: Transfer Files between Remote Servers via SSH

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Chances are you have a bunch of different hosts that are housing your website files, for the sake of data safety (never put all eggs in a single basket) and possibly some SEO advantage. If that is the case, you will infrequently come to the need to move some files from one host server to …

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Yet another The Planet dedicated hosting coupon code

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The Planet seems to be running quite a series of promotional discounts off their dedicated server hosting plans recently. After the release of this promo code which I can’t possibly find anywhere on their official website now, here’s yet another one for you: bgsv Uppercase won’t work. Just copy and paste the lowercase version. It …

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Linux: Find files changed or modified within xx day or older than xx day

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One of the utility commands of Linux that you should know in the first day of your Linux learning seminar is find. To search recursively in the directory somedir for files changed / created / modified within 1 day: find somedir -ctime -1 Or within 5 days: find somedir -ctime -5 To search recursively in …

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MySQL: How to backup ALL databases as root with mysqldump at once?

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When you have a VPS or dedicated server to manage, typically you’d have a bunch of different mysql users granted the privileges of every particular database for the sake of security. While this works well in segregating the privileges and preventing hackers from gaining access to all databases upon the compromise of only one mysql …

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Linode Review: From Slicehost to Linode VPS Hosting

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I was with RackSpace Cloud Servers which is owned by RackSpace along with Slicehost where my servers are actually placed. So you can also say I’m moving from Slicehost to Linode. However, the fact that I’m leaving them doesn’t mean they are not good. To the opposite, they are absolutely one of the best VPS …

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