I was recently developing a PHP scraping script to extract the contents of a couple of websites and I wanted to find a quick way to run through a loop for each letter of the alphabet. I figured since PHP was so versatile there had to be a quick and easy way, so I did [...]
Start off by editing the file /etc/network/interfaces with your favourite text editor. You will need to have root access to modify this file, so for example use the following command: Now tweak the file to your needs, this example sets the IP address to 192.168.1.123 on eth0. I suggest running the command ifconfig beforehand and [...]
Until recently my choice for an FTP server had always been ProFTPd, however I found its difficulty to install made it a constant chore every time I had to set up a server. So I sought out an alternative that was quick and easy to install yet did not sacrifice functionality or security. The answer [...]
