According to Netcraft a number of hosting companies are banning the use of phpbb. Considering the number of security issues that the open source bulletin board software has had in the last 8 months, this move is not particularly surprising. However, as a spokesperson for the developers rightly pointed out: While phpBB has and no doubt will continue to suffer from exploits (show … [Read more...] about The death of phpbb?
Linux
How to choose a linux distro
Ask any *nix user group which distro you should use and you'll probably start a minor religious war :) Padraig Brady provided a very handy link to make it all a lot more painless Based on my answers it suggested Kubuntu for my laptop, which was a sane choice, as I like apt Edit: I installed Kubuntu on my laptop this evening via apt. … [Read more...] about How to choose a linux distro
Apache 2 configuration
This site is now running on Apache 2 on Debian. The last time I used apache 2 it was an early release and the configuration structure and methods was almost identical to the 1.* series. The current version uses similar directives, so implementing vhosts (virtual hosts) has not changed that dramatically, however the actual method for configuring them has. Under the Apache … [Read more...] about Apache 2 configuration