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Articles and Reviews from Voodish

Welcome to our Articles section, we try and update this section at least twice weekly, so check back regularly for the most up to date info. Our sections include Future of Computing, Internet Tools, Tea Break and Web Development.

Jul 22 2009

How to reset Linux Firewall

A simple command to reset your Firewall:

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

Obviously you will need to reconfigure your settings after wards, but this is a quick method to get things up and running on test servers.

Learn how to install a Linux Firewall >>>

Jun 11 2009

Changing default / index page via htaccess

If your working on a site and would like visitors who access yoursite.com to be redirected (instantly) to a maintenance or under construction page instead?
It can be done by editing your .htaccess file to include the following code. Here’s what you have to do. Add this to your .htaccess file:

Jun 01 2009

Common FTP codes and their meaning

Here’s a list of some of the most common FTP codes you might see:

May 24 2009

How to view website on a shared IP

Not all websites require a dedicated IP address, and most simple sites will be using a shared IP, but how do you view a website on a shared IP before it propagates?

May 20 2009

Joomla E-mail could not be sent [FIXED]

A lot of people are experiencing problems with Joomla not sending mail out, notably from the Email Pop window, the system simply returns “E-mail could not be sent”.
In this article we show how to fix the problem quickly and easily.

May 01 2009

ASUS Driver for WinXP

A device that has Device ID - ACPIAWY00012&DABA3FF&0 is called “AMD Away Mode” and drivers (Windows XP) for this device can be found here:

Apr 09 2009

IE8 Quick Fix - one line for your headers

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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Fix - Fix IE8 from displaying website content incorrectly with one simple line of code in the header of your pages.

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) supports additional HTML and CSS standards that are not supported in previous versions of Internet Explorer.

However, this also means that some websites will behave differently in IE8 than previous versions of IE. [more info on these IE8 changes]