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RVSiteBuilder finally arrives @ UnixGuru

guru — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:49:51 +0000

Now that RVSiteBuilder has been around a while for DirectAdmin and ealy issues have been ironed out, we are offering the de-facto Site Builder, with more than 950 templates and 4000 designs, it’s unmatched.

Of course along side Scriptaculous and its ability to automatically install/deploy the top 250+ top scripts, this means sites have never been quicker to deploy or design.

LAMP Stack Upgrade

guru — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:51:06 +0000

From today, all public shared and reseller hosting from UnixGuru hosting is php 5.3.10 and uses MySQL 5.5.20.
Also upgrades to bind, dovecot, exim, and others continues to ensure that security and performance remain high.

WordPress launches 3.3

guru — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:23 +0000

WordPress has launched version 3.3, which at first look appears to be a good upgrade.

Good news is that the W3TC plug-in appears to work correctly with the new version of WordPress, so we are recommending customers to upgrade their WordPress Blogs as soon as possible, although it may be worth waiting if you have critical plug-ins that are untested.

UnixGuru now hosting blottr, the people powered news service.

guru — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:24:32 +0000

blottr, the people powered news service have migrated their hosting to a UnixGuru Hosting Virtualised Dedicated Server, to resolve long time stability issues that they were suffering at peer1.

UnixGuru would like to thank blottr, for choosing us!

UnixGuru Hosting increases Server Memory to 32GB

guru — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:09:20 +0000

UnixGuru Hosting has increased it the RAM on it’s shared hosting servers to 32GB, this allows for better caching of popular files and queries.

CVS is now a new Acronym

guru — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:30:37 +0000

CVS is now the acronym for Computer Vision Syndrome.

Why do people in IT keep reusing, current acroyms for new purposes?

However if you want to read about the new CVS at mashable click the link.

Apple want to ban HTC phones and tablets in the US

guru — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:03:38 +0000

Apple not contentwith being the bigest kid on the block, wants to knock out is competitors, not through innovation, but through legislation.

Apple is trying to get HTC phones and tablets banned in the US.

Original Article

ICO tries new EU Cookie law on own site

guru — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:03:16 +0000

The ICO has implemented the new European Union Cookie Law on its own website and saw an almost instantaneous 90% reduction in people willing to accept a google analytics cookie.

Whilst that might not be disasterous for a government website, just think of the consequences that might have for a commercial website.

Original Article: Techcrunch

China Bug HK Cars

guru — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:04:54 +0000

China has apparenty been installing spying devices into Hong Kong cars so that the authorities can spy on its citizens.

Article from Epoch Times.

America is listening

guru — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:42:45 +0000

You know the films where it seems the US government is listening to everthing, and we think, that’s not possible! is it??

Well it appears that it is and here is an article from the New Yorker, which exposes what’s been going on and a high level desciption of how it is done.