In this screencast I’ll show you how to use the File Manager in Plesk 12. It’s a very convenient tool that has largely replaced the need for an external FTP client. The File Manager allows you to change files directly on the server via your web browser. I’m explaining the following things: how to upload … Read more
Even in Plesk 12 we can only schedule a single backup, and we must decide where said backup should be saved: either on the local server, or on an off-site FTP server. Sadly we can’t have it both ways. Many of us – me included – find this very limiting. Both local and remote backups … Read more
There is something I keep forgetting time and time again: the credentials to my AirPort Time Capsule. It serves as my router, Time Machine Backup disk and even as shared storage for internal use, thanks to an attached USB drive. All our Macs connect to both drives automatically and without fail – but every once … Read more
In this screencast I’ll show you how to use the File Sharing features in Plesk 12. File Sharing allows you to upload files and give links to others, or let others upload files to the server. You can do this with or without password protection and you can even map folders from your server to … Read more
WordPress 4.0 introduced a new way to browse Plugins in the admin interface: beautiful icons show up that make Plugins looks like Mini-Apps. When a user clicks on one they get a description right there and then without the need to browse to the WordPress site in a different tab. This gives easy and … Read more
In this screencast I will show you how to install an older version of WordPress in Plesk 12. This is useful if you’d like to test drive the WordPress Toolkit on a spare server before going live with its many new features. You can’t use the APS installer for this as it will always install … Read more
The Commodore Plus/4 – like his other brothers – has memory areas in which screen characters and colour values are stored independently from each other. Because it uses the TED chip these memory addresses are different from the C64 and C128. Each character from the top left corner to the bottom right corner occupies one … Read more
When I had a C64 back in the days, the only IF/THEN statement we could create in BASIC v2 was just that: IF and THEN. There was no ELSE, and everything had to be on a single line. It was the only flow control we had back in those days, and it was a severe … Read more
