Managing Email Accounts in Plesk 12
In this screencast I’ll explain how to setup Email Accounts in Plesk 12. I will show you how to setup mailboxes, use forwarding and create aliases. I’ll also show you the Spam Filter and Auto Responder. This all happens in Plesk, there’s another video which will show you how to check email from an external client and via webmail.
read moreHow to enable automatic user logins on Mac OS X Yosemite
By default Yosemite doesn’t like users to auto-login when the system starts. Instead you have to select a user, type in the password, and then the system starts to boot. Not necessarily what we want. To disable this feature you usually head over to System Preferences Users and Groups Login Options and pick your default user from that handy drop down menu. Notice however that this is greyed out on Yosemite: So what gives? Turns out that this option is not available if you’ve agreed to encrypt your disk via FileVault. And it makes...
read moreHow to adjust Health Monitor Alarms in Plesk
In this screencast I’ll show you how to adjust the Health Monitor thresholds. Those are the ones that tell Health Monitor when to send an email and when to display a “Needs Attention” or “Problem” message. Health Monitor works with XML configuration files which can easily be changed to suit your needs. In this example, one of my servers has seen an increase in Apache CPU usage and has been bombarding me with emails because the “Problem” threshold is set to trigger at 25%. After investigating the issue...
read moreHow to upgrade from Plesk 11.5 to Plesk 12 on CentOS
In this screencast I’m showing you how to upgrade from an older version to Plesk 12. Specifically, I’m showing this with a Plesk 11.5 installation, but the principles still apply from Plesk 10.x onwards. Plesk 12 comes in four flavours, and depending on the previous license you’ve held you’ll be upgraded to one of the new types – check them out here: http://sp.parallels.com/products/plesk/plesk-editions/ http://kb.parallels.com/en/121896
read moreHow to locate and set the cursor on your Commodore C128
Sadly the Commodore machines don’t offer a routine to locate or set the current cursor position via BASIC. There is however a Kernel routine named PLOT which can do this in Machine Language. Here’s how we can utilise it. Getting the Cursor Position . 01300 38 sec . 01301 20 f0 ff jsr $fff0 . 01304 8e 00 14 stx $1400 . 01307 8c 01 14 sty $1401 . 0130a 60 rts This snippet sets the carry flag, calls the PLOT routine at $FFF0 and returns the cursor position in the X and Y registers. We’ll put them in a safe place into $1400 and...
read moreCore Data Nugget #1: How to speak Core Data
In this screencast I’ll talk you through the lingo of Core Data: those scary classes and expressions that you’ll frequently come across. In fact, this is the start of a new series: Core Data Nuggets are bite-sized chunks about the framework. Dip in and out or watch them all in a row and learn how this super complicated framework works and what it has to offer. Don’t get overwhelmed by Core Data: it wants to help – it’s just not designed with humans in mind. As always, enjoy!
read moreHow to update Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 – despite Microsoft Database Daemon and SyncServicesAgent errors
Every time I try to update Microsoft Office 2011 on my Mac I get this ridiculous window popping up. No matter how hard you try, those two services – Microsoft Database Daemon and SyncServicesAgent – keep relaunching themselves, forever preventing you to apply the update. Clearly Microsoft (or Apple) don’t want us to update Office for Mac: Usually I give up and live without such updates. I only use M$ Office once in a blue moon and really don’t care. Today I got curious and researched this phenomenon – and thought...
read moreHow to use the TwentyThirteen Theme by Automattic
In this screencast I’ll show you how to use TwentyThirteen, a simple yet powerful WordPress theme that looks gorgeous and is mobile friendly. I’ll explain Post Formats and their impact, how to show images in galleries and how to embed videos to your WordPress site too. I’ll finish it off by demonstrating how the site looks like on a desktop browser as well as the iOS Simulator on iPad and iPhone. I’m using WordPress 3.9 for this demo. I’m referencing some related articles in this video – here they are: How...
read moreHow to clear your Browser Cache
Web Browsers like to save websites that you’ve visited earlier to speed up how quickly they can be displayed. Everything that should be downloaded from the web is saved as local files (up to a point), and if a browser sees that you’re visiting site again that you’ve just been to, he serves the saved files rather than request them from the web again. You can clear this cache and force the browser to load the results from the web. Eventually the cache clears itself, but it depends on “when the browser feels like...
read moreHow to merge BASIC programmes on your Commodore C64, C128 and Plus/4
You can merge / combine / concatenate BASIC programmes on a Commodore computer. It’s often useful to develop shorter chunks of code and put them together for a larger app. Sadly there’s no built-in command that lets you do this, even though the C128 user guide hints that the CONCAT command can do this (if you’ve ever tried you know that this is not the case and only works for sequential data files). With a few peeks and pokes we can accomplish what we need. Here’s how: after loading the fist programme, we’ll set...
read more