ProFTP has a handy feature that lets uploads resume if they were interrupted, much like Safari downloads. This feature has to be enabled both on the server and the client. By default however, resuming uploads are disabled for security reasons – a wise precaution if anonymous uploads are allowed to a server. Here’s how to … Read more
The default directory for all web files in Plesk on Linux is /var/www/vhosts. Usually this works well, but if you’d like to use another partition instead, you’ll be pleased to hear that you can! Parallels (or Odin as we call them now) have written a handy script which moves the content and patches the relevant … Read more
There are several ways to make the Windows Explorer show full file extensions. The most consistent method I like to use is the following: Windows 7 and 8 click Start to find a Search Box type Folder Options and select it click the View Tab find the option “hide extensions for known file types” untick … Read more
One of my readers had a mysterious problem: the WordPress Editor was not showing up under Appearance or Plugins. It’s a handy tool for quick edits to any plugin or theme file, and I’ve relied on it more times than I can count. Having it enabled is a double-edged sword of course, because with great … Read more
Hidden files start with a . on UNIX like systems and OS X is one of them. While we can show hidden files in a Ternimal session by using something like ls -a, it’s not so easy to convince the Finder to show such files. If ever you need to see them, execute the following … Read more
Parallels have announced this week that they’ve changed their name to brand cloud services from Parallels to Odin. This blog post has more details: http://blog.odin.com/serviceprovider/2015/3/24/weve-changed-our-name-parallels-service-provider-business-is-now-odin#.VRVXAVz-_68= While I dislike change for the sake of change, I believe that it makes a lot of sense in this case. I have been working with Parallels products since 2008, … Read more
There are two ways I know of which will print the UUID of all disk drives attached to the current system: blkid /dev/sr0: UUID=”2014-12-02-19-30-23-00″ LABEL=”CDROM” TYPE=”iso9660″ /dev/sda1: UUID=”ae55a647-3c57-4ab5-9651-1389703fe6fe” TYPE=”ext4″ /dev/sda2: UUID=”bMtCfO-zpDU-7U1t-DcHg-Fe9p-Cy1K-Se0e1I” TYPE=”LVM2_member” /dev/sdb1: UUID=”0982ce66-537a-497b-baaf-99136594f3e8″ TYPE=”ext4″ /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap: UUID=”8f0652a8-d79b-453f-aa2d-0ff0b5d0ae7b” TYPE=”swap” /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root: UUID=”5afc1b25-e6cd-45b2-ad20-69f0fed323b9″ TYPE=”ext4″ /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home: UUID=”94e15e98-1cff-49a9-b76a-a8f3a948e2ea” TYPE=”ext4″ or ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 160 … Read more
I passionately *H*A*T*E* the startup chime that my Mac makes when I switch it on. At least on my MacBook, if the volume is turned down before I shutdown, the system restarts silently. I guess it’s somehow linked to the internal speakers. Sadly on my Mac Mini this approach doesn’t work: due to the lack … Read more
