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Spaf’s Farewell Letter

Spaf’s Farewell Letter

From news.columbia.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!purdue!not-for-mail Fri Apr 30 11:27:16 EDT 1993 Article: 2350 of news.admin.misc Xref: news.columbia.edu news.announce.newusers:595 news.misc:5782 news.admin.misc:2350 news.groups:57071...

Unix Horror Stories

gopher://wiretap.area.com/00/Library/Techdoc/Lore/unixhorr%09%09%2B Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin From: axi0349@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.X. Ivasyuk) Subject: The Unofficial Unix Administration Horror Stories Summary Message-ID: <1992Dec3.162444.14088@ultb.isc.rit.edu>...

The Great Renaming – Part III

Part 3 – Breaking of the Backbone Cabal A number of simultaneous events rendered the Backbone Cabal irrelevant. The most important was the increased use of NNTP around this same time. Usenet’s use of Internet made it easier to ignore what the Backbone news...

The Great Renaming – Part II

Part 2 – After the Great Renaming Yet, ironically, nothing really changed for a significant portion of sites, and almost all the sites except company ones still got a full feed. As has been so often the case in Usenet history, its “imminent death”...

The Great Renaming – Part I

By Lee S. Bumgarner (14-Jan-2006 Note – Dan Flood – There is now a Wikipedia article regarding this, which complements this faq. I cannot find this FAQ anywhere on the net these days. ) Part 1 In the 20 odd years of its existence a rich culture has evolved...
Joomla or WordPress on a Plesk powered VPS

Joomla or WordPress on a Plesk powered VPS

Permission and scripting errors running Joomla or WordPress on a Plesk powered environment?  The work around is to set directory permissions to 777 which is obviously a bad idea, so cutting the long story short, you’re most likely running PHP as the Apache user....
CHMOD Cheat Sheet

CHMOD Cheat Sheet

I find myself having to pause and remember exactly what Unix permissions translate to in functionality so posted this handy chart to use.  Unix or any *nix uses octal for permissions – it’s pretty simple once you get the chart into your brain 😉        ...

Bill Gates favorite anti-UNIX jokes

If Unix is the answer, then it must have been a stupid question. Unix is the only virus with a command-interface. How can an operating system from 1970 (UNIX) be more modern than an operating system from 1978 (VMS)? Unix – the first computer virus. NFS =...

You might be an AOL addict if

Tech Support calls You for help. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL You watch T.V. with the closed cationing turned on You have called out someone’s screen name while making love to your significant other. You keep begging your friends to get an...

Complete list of Windows 95 Error Messages

WinErr: 001 Windows loaded – System in danger WinErr: 002 No Error – Yet WinErr: 003 Dynamic linking error – Your mistake is now in every file WinErr: 004 Erroneous error – Nothing is wrong WinErr: 005 Multitasking attempted – System...