A step-by-step guide on how to backup VMWare ESX(i) 5.5 virtual machines to Amazon S3

If you’re experiencing DNS related problems on Ubuntu, follow the below steps to use Google’s public DNS servers: Open network interfaces: sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces Add the following after “# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed“: dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Restart the networking service: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart You should then be able to ping google.com and continue with... Read Arcticle

How to quickly fix the "Open Device Failure" error message when using Gigabyte EasyTune software.

GitLab is great until it breaks, and they have a habit of pushing updates so often that bugs and regressions occur just as often. This guide tells you how to revert a bad omnibus installation.

Redirect non-www traffic to www without hardcoding your domain URL! <3

A short guide detailing how to convert a .htaccess to IIS' XML-based web.config file - including references to otherwise difficult to find documentation!

Recently I’ve been using Centos a lot and SELinux has been somewhat painful to get used to in comparison to other systems, for example Debian. With some determination to not disable SELinux, I eventually found out how to understand why certain functionality was not performing as expected: Error log file: /var/log/audit/audit.log Converting to human readable error messages: yum install setroubleshoot-server... Read Arcticle

This post will provide a solution for DOMDocument::loadHTML mangling foreign characters.