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	<description>Tweaking your Website</description>
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		<title>Benchmarking Your Site with &#8216;http_load&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http_load  is a stunningly useful HTTP benchmarking utility that gives you a rough idea of how many hits per second a server is capable of serving. You simply tell it what pages to grab, and how many &#8220;clients&#8221; it should run in parallel; it gives you back useful information about the average fetches per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/benchmarking-your-site-with-http_load/</link>
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		<title>How to check an MD5 hash on a file</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MD5 is a one-way hash algorithm as defined by RFC1321 and can be used to help determine the integrity of a file by providing a 128 bit digital signature. This digital signature is like a fingerprint for a file, changing just one single byte in a file will result in a different MD5 hash.
MD5 hashes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/how-to-check-an-md5-hash-on-a-file/</link>
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		<title>Check / List Running Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q. How do I list all currently running services in CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux server ?
A. There are various ways and tools to find and list all running services under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux systems.
service command &#8211; list running services
service --status-all
service --status-all &#124; grep ntpd
service --status-all &#124; less

Print the status of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/check-list-running-services/</link>
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		<title>How to Change the Timezone in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Logged in as root, check which timezone your machine is currently using by executing `date`. You&#8217;ll see something like Mon Nov  9 13:49:01 EST 2009, PST in this case is the current timezone.
Change to the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo here you will find a list of time zone regions. Choose the most appropriate region, if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/how-to-change-the-timezone-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Install bandwidth monitor vnstat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[vnStat is a network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s). vnStat isn’t a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the /proc -filesystem, so vnStat can be used without root permissions. However at least a 2.2.x kernel is required.

Install vnStat
     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/install-bandwidth-monitor-vnstat/</link>
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		<title>Block IP Addresses With IPtables &amp; APF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a user that keeps hammering your FTP or trying to login over and over and over again that you just want to ban and never see again? We’ll show a quick and dirty method to ban an IP address from the server.
We commonly receive questions like:
“I would like to ban that ip address to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/block-ip-addresses/</link>
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		<title>Tuning the Apache MaxClients parameter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that can have a really drastic effect on a large site using Apache, is the value assigned to the MaxClients parameter.
This parameter defines how many simultaneous request can be served. Any connection request from browsers that come in after that will be queued.
Apache prefork, StartServers, MaxSpareServers and MinSpareServers
In the most common case, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/tuning-the-apache-maxclients-parameter/</link>
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		<title>Simple AJAX Example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This aims to be the easiest possible example demonstrating AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).
AJAX is a technique rather than a technology: It describes how JavaScript can be used to pull data from the server using the XML HTTP Request object and then insert this data into the website using DOM. This is done asynchronously &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/simple-ajax-example/</link>
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		<title>Stop PHP nobody Spammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHP and Apache has a history of not being able to track which users are sending out mail through the PHP mail function from the nobody user causing leaks in formmail scripts and malicious users to spam from your server without you knowing who or where.
Watching your exim_mainlog doesn&#8217;t exactly help, you see th email [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/stop-php-nobody-spammers/</link>
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		<title>Rotating Banner in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a snippet that will rotate a banner on a page. All you have to do is set $File and $Images to the paths to the images. It will just do the next image in $Images in order. It doesn&#8217;t rotate banners for seperate users, it just goes through. Before you use it, create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/rotating-banner-in-php/</link>
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		<title>Text counter in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to PHP and be able to chmod a directory. We&#8217;re going to save the amount of hits in a .dat file, so you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/text-counter-in-php/</link>
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		<title>Changing Web Hosts ? Step-By-Step Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every webmaster cringes at the thought of moving hosts. Like moving your home it can be messy and sometimes problems arise. But if you follow these simple steps, your move will be less painful.
Backup Backup Backup
If you&#8217;ve been diligent with your backups, you&#8217;ve got a lot of insurance to fall back on yet always make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/changing-web-hosts-step-by-step-guide/</link>
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		<title>Create Random Text in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to put a random quote on your site? Or randomize some other aspect of your site? It&#8217;s easy. You&#8217;ll want to use PHP or some other server-side scripting language instead of a client-side scripting language like JavaScript. Server-side languages write the content to the page in html before it ever leaves the server. Search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/create-random-text-in-php/</link>
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		<title>IP country block downloads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All country IP block files are provided in CIDR format, at this  time. Please note that we compile these lists from regional IP space  providers. To correct any errors please contact your local IP space  provider e.g. for Europe it&#8217;s Ripe, for North America it&#8217;s Arin.
Zone files last updated: Mon Jun 15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/ip-country-block-downloads/</link>
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		<title>Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 Support On CentOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.0 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Afterwards, we can install Lighttpd like this:
yum install lighttpd
Then we create the system startup links for Lighttpd (so that Lighttpd starts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/installing-lighttpd-with-php5-support-on-centos/</link>
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		<title>How to install winrar on CentOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rar is one of the common file format use for data compression and archiving. What happen if you have a rar file in Linux ? Don&#8217;t panic, just using the &#8216;rar&#8217; program .There is some intro in Unrar the File.
Today I had to install rar support to archive and split large files. I&#8217;ve tried to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/how-to-install-winrar-on-centos/</link>
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		<title>Script to daily email APF status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are running APF on your server, but sometimes you think &#8220;is APF running fine ?&#8221;
This script sends you an email with APF satus.
Log in to your server as root
Create the script:
nano apfstatus.sh
Put this on the file:
#!/bin/bash
    tail -200 /var/log/apf_log &#124; mail -s "APF Status" youemail@domain.com
Save and Exit
Ctrl+X and Y

Make it executable:
chmod [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/script-to-daily-email-apf-status/</link>
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		<title>How to open winrar files with Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
To open RAR (those created with winrar) you will need unrar. There are lots of sites now providing files packaged under the rar format.
So you will need first to install unrar on your systems and therefore be able to list content and unpack the files into your hard disk to be able to work with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/how-to-open-winrar-files-with-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To remote backup with rsync</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably the simply way to backup data to other server using a secure protocoal an minimum bandwidh.
Note:
BackupServer.com &#8211; Is the backup server
MainServer.com &#8211; Is the server you want to backup

Login to the server you want to backup
Creating a key with the ssh-keygen utility:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' (these are two single quotes)
Copy RSA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/remote-backup-with-rsync/</link>
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		<title>How To Install IonCube Loader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you need IonCube loader in order to encode scripts. You will need to install IonCube loadar on your box.

Login to your server as root and download the loaderfor your server: http://www.ioncube.com/loader_download.php
Then extract it
tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders.tar.gz
cd ioncube
Copy ioncube-install-assistant.php file to a www diretory
cp ioncube-install-assistant.php /home/username_here/www

Go to: http://www.yourdomain.com/ioncube-install-assistant.php
You sould see something like this:
PHP Version 5.2.6
Operating System [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.123tweak.com/how-to-install-ioncube-loader/</link>
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