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So, i have a server with Volumedrive for few months now, and have heard that Jeff and Josh are really hard working fellas. Well not sure if what you hear on the web can be true these days, but how about pictures ? A picture is worth thousands  words.

Jeff at Volumedrive

What you are seeing in picture  is Jeff working hard inside the datacenter to make sure servers are working 24/7. Picture was provided by Josh from Volumedrive, and i heard jeff has picture of josh, at work in similar fashion. So when you got a crew like that to look after your servers who needs another provider !! From what i hear, either Jeff or Josh can be found in above pose at 4 am in the morning at datacenter every night/morning.
No wonder they do not have a house to sleep in, when datacenter acts as their little cove. They probably end up spending 20 out of 24 hrs inside the datacenter, it must really have a state of arts washroom facility too !!

NOTE to JEFF: Heard of a thing called Energy Drink!!

XHTML seems to be the trend i have been coding websites these days, not sure why, but I have gone crazy trying to make sure all website are xhtml valid. Well atleast if not all pages, atleast the front page :). Yes yes thats sneaky and not professional. But seriously with all the javascript sometimes i have to use, it gets really hard to make sure its xhtml valid on inner pages. Example : View My Dns , note that the main page is XHTML valid as from slicing to initial setup i made sure it will be !! But its subsequent pages are not XHTML valid.

Even though XHTML valid pages will not render properly on all the browsers is what i found with above site. It was the first site I decided to code with .png images instead of .gif and guess what ? Got burned, as IE 6 view looks so Fugggly !! But .png images offer better quality so i will stick with it, unless i get complaints from users, using the website (if ever lol) . So, is it worth spending extra time to make sure site is XHTML valid ? Well in some cases it is , but in others might not be if website is going to be filled with scripts etc. etc. But beauty of knowing XHTML is that , you become so used to it, that you start coding normally with xhtml not realizing your are doing yourself a favor !! For example this new website, was not at hard for me to make it xhtml valid, as i started coding all div’s , td’s and so on with style=”xyx:zyz;” format !!

Well enough of my craze toward xhtml, but its really easy once you get the hang of it, and not makeing extremely complex website. Following are the list of websites i have coded, and made sure front page was atleast xhtml valid

College of Engineering - University of Saskatchewan,SK (this is not a live site yet, will go live soon)
Bloggy Bloggy - This site itself.
ViewmyDns - The DNS report and other ip tools website.
A1 Web Hosting solutions (was xhtml valid i swear but not anymore i shall fit it soon)
Web Directory Reviews - (inner pages are xhtml valid not the main page though weird huh !!) example : http://www.webdirectoryreviews.com/blogging-about-h-log/ is valid page !!
H-log A Se friendly directory.
Dmoz-Resources - A dmoz directory forums for webmasters.
Php Proxy Host - Proxy Hosting at the Right Prices (sorry it has 4 errors will fix asap ! if i can)

While mentioning some of my XHTML coded website might as well tell you about my worst xhtml horror story . Its none other than my very first domain i ever bought !! Sbclansite. On doing XHTML check it come up with following report : 729 Errors, 1 warning(s) . Now thats like just what can i say “shameful” of me not to try to fix it. But i have lots of website on me , and it gets out of hand trying to look after them. Overall i think i have over 25 - 30 domains and like 10 -15 working sites.  Well if you wish to hire me to do some xhtml site of yours, do contact me via http://www.a1whs.com/support.php page. Also note that i can do psd slicing and convert those psds to XHTML valid sites !! Anyways gotta finish working on other stuff and head out for some get together kinda thingy !

I will soon probably launch my own portofio site/page maybe !! Please feel free to post your website links and your work !! I will be more than happy to view them and if you need help in xhtml validating it, do give me a shout !!

ets install firefox and enable flash player plugin for the same with the newly setup GUI on your debian box as in previous how-to.

First of all run this via ssh, logged in as su or root.

apt-get install fontconfig libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libjpeg62 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libtiff4 libxp6 psmisc libstdc++5

Now type

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

And add this to the end of it.

#
# Debian Multimedia Repositories
#

deb http://debian.dc-uoit.net/debian-multimedia/ stable main

deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/debian/debian-multimedia/ stable main
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/debian/debian-multimedia/ stable main

deb ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian-multimedia/ stable main
deb-src ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian-multimedia/ stable main

deb http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian-multimedia/ stable main
deb-src http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian-multimedia/ stable main

Now execute/run/type the following :

apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
apt-get update

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Here is a simple how-to-guide on setting up Ktorrent on Debian and Centos System with KDE GUI interface. A Simple Guide to getting rid of boring SSH Terminal for those new to linux boxes.
First of all lets setup the tool and gui itself to remote login using interface of the server.
SSH into your server first, using tools like Putty. Login as root, using su - command if you are not already logged in as root.

apt-get update
apt-get install kde x-window-system vncserver

Start up your vncserver now using command: Please note you can change BloggyBloggy.com name to w/e u like, and resolution from 1280×1024 to w/e really works for you. Please use x for the multiple there, cause if you copy paste this code directly it will not work so remember to change the x in the 2 numbers.

To change password for vncserver ever again in case you forget just type vncpasswd and you will be all set
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Ok everday i connect to yahoo.ca , i am greated with Featured news/article talking nothing but about “SEX” wth, what is wrong with you yahoo, do you not know that even kids might be coming to yahoo from schools and what not. That is just insanse, has yahoo run out of stories to post all the time, that they are stooping to such a level where they can talk nothing else other than “SEX”. Unless they magically know

Example today i went to yahoo.ca and saw this story : (more…)

Hi,

So i got a server from kevworks.net last night for an amazingly low price (its a dual core, 2gig ram with 500 gig space and 10mbps unmetered ) and so i decided to use it for my main hosting backup portal. It did not come with any control panel so decided to install the free version of Lxadmin on the same. Ran into like bunch of troubles (trust me i would have kept going and going and finally screwed up the server is i did not google up the problems it was showing me) . So to make it easy for you to install lxadmin on your fresh centos 5.1 box here are the steps/instructions.

1. First of all make sure selinuxis disabled (found out this was my root of all problems). TO disable selinux do this :

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Thats right folks, just submitted today this personal blog of mine to dmoz.org for review. Sumitted to http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Weblogs/B/ and to http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/B/ as suggested by mr. freeystyler from Dmoz Resources.

Lets see how it pans out, and if dmoz has some blacklist going where they blacklist all sites owned by bunny :).

Their captcha thing works though, read at places that it does not work, not anymore, so thats a good thing !.

So does bunny thinks dmoz will approve the site, well to be frank time will tell not sure if they are still hung up over there at dmoz about me running a dmoz forums or not. Or maybe its just summer time now and everyone busy trying to make their wives(that like more than 1) happy !!

Anyways feel like writing about the new wordpress it looks so sleek. So check out the other post !!

Thats right 5 Grand or more pending links waiting to be approved at 2 of my directories. I been slacking off in approving and now this happens, if I start today and do 30 links a day, that will take like 167 Days !! ZOMG , and by than i am sure there will still more links added , good thing is i get notifcations of payments for featured links, so those paid users do not have to worry about the wait.

Those directories i am talking about are :

H-log

and

Sbclansite 

ZOMG !! 5 K pending links to look at, I shall try to do maybe 200 links in a day, or would probably need to hire 2 or 3 editors to get the pending list down to 0 :).

Don’t let that happen to you, it’s going to be painful !!

So, 2005 ish I started learning about the webmastering concept, so the first thing was to get a free hosting account, and at that time x10hosting.com was the best , specially Corey, who still happens to be on my MSN list , though i rarely bug him these days.

Decided to go back to look at the old site where i first got my free hosting acount and was i surprised or what ? The forums still intact and company still around offering free hosting, now that is one dedicated dude and company.

Welcome, link107.
You last visited: 09-16-2005 at 05:45 PM

I was greeted by the forums. I have to say when it comes to free webhosting if someone is looking for one i am sure they would be happy to be hosted by Corey at x10hosting.

Mention my name or userid maybe corey might put you on some special plan too, i remember i was once on staff plan or something, but got it removed cause i did not login to the account for long. I wish they did not had that kind of restrictions than, i wonder if they still got the same restrictions ….

Anyways thats all folks for now..

Learnt a neat trick to update/upgrade Php 4.4.7 on my test server to php 5.2.5 running centos 5 and direct admin as control panel. Took me a while to google up all the answers, so thought why not just put a small tutorial to install php 5.2.5 on apache2 based machine with direct admin on it.

First for sake of it run

yum install libxml-devel (this command on centos upgrades libxml or installs it if its mising and trust me you need to do this cause it saves time, otherwise php compile will end abruptly giving error :

Configuring extensions
checking whether to enable LIBXML support… yes
checking libxml2 install dir… no
checking for xml2-config path…
configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

*** There was an error while trying to configure php. Check the configure.php file

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