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	<title>Design Solution Blog - Web Development &#038; Hosting : Technically Speaking</title>
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		<title>Developers , Developers , Developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No its not Steve Balmer. Its DS. I would like to welcome 3 new web developers .
Fausto Piovesan from Brazil who respects open source. Local boy Peter, badminton champion of the world and lastly Michael Dravnieks who play drums in Norwich based band, GPD.

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		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/developers-developers-developers/</link>
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		<title>Vehicle Sales CMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have recently developed a CMS (Content Management System) which is targeted specifically at the vehicle sales sector.
The system was designed to be very easy to use.
Features

Add Vehicles
Add Categories
Add Photos
Add Vehicle Details

2 companies who are already using the system are:
Becks Motor Homes
Manorfield Cars
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		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/vehicle-sales-cms/</link>
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		<title>MySQL binary log rotation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are running a MySQL replication setup, and find that the binary logs get very large, very quickly.  Since MySQL didn&#8217;t come with a log rotation script, we rolled our own.  Usage is simple:
At the top of the script are some definitions that you need to change for your setup:

MYSQL_USER MYSQL_PASS - You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/mysql-binary-log-rotation/</link>
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		<title>Apple QuickTime RTSP Buffer Overflow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A vulnerability has been found in the way QuickTime handles Real Time Streaming Protocol URL&#8217;s.  Until Apple release a Software Update for this, it is recommended that users disable QuickTime support in their browsers.  This is simple to do:

Navigate to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Drag the QuickTime Plugin.plugin and QuickTime Plugin.webplugin files to a temporary location, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/apple-quicktime-rtsp-buffer-overflow/</link>
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		<title>Preventing Apache DOS attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recently come under attack from denial-of-service (DOS) attacks.  In order to alleviate this situation, we are currently testing out the mod_evasive Apache module.
mod_evasive v1.10.1
The install was simple.  After downloading and unpacking the source code&#8230;
/usr/sbin/apxs -i -a -c mod_evasive20.c
This will compile the module, copy it to the correct directory and enable the module [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/preventing-apache-dos-attacks/</link>
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		<title>Make text PHP safe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever copied and pasted some text from somewhere for use in a PHP string?  You have?  Well, you know that there can be some problems if the text contains single or double quotes.  That&#8217;s where this little tool will come in handy:
PHP String Quoter
Just enter your text, and it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/make-text-php-safe/</link>
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		<title>Optimizing MailScanner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our MailScanner installation is pretty heavily utilised, scanning 20,000+ messages a day.  I&#8217;m always looking for ways of improving it&#8217;s performance, so the following document has proved useful:
Optimization tips

Use a ramdisk (tmpfs) for MailScanner’s working directory.
Make sure you have enough ram
Set the noatime flag on your spool and log partitions
Use a local DNS caching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/optimizing-mailscanner/</link>
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		<title>Enabling GD library for PHP 4.4.4 on Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, GD is not enabled in the default Mac OS X build of PHP 4.4.4.  Here&#8217;s an easy way to install.  Make sure you have the following fink packages installed:

libpng3
libjpeg

1. Download the source code for PHP 4.4.4
PHP 4.4.4 source
2. Unpack the source
tar jxvf php-4.4.4.tar.bz2
cd php-4.4.4
3. Compile and install the GD extension

cd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/enabling-gd-library-for-php-on-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Perfect Harmony?</title>
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	Perfect Harmony?, originally uploaded by lonesome cowboy glen.


	The latest version of Parallels Desktop for Mac offers a feature called Coherence which means that you can run Windows apps on your Mac desktop.  It&#8217;s really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/perfect-harmony/</link>
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		<title>Sending encrypted mail with Apple Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple Mail has a nice feature that allows you to digitally sign and encrypt your messages.  This is extremely important if you are sending sensitive information via e-mail because messages are usually sent over an unencrypted channel.  This means that there is the potential of your message being intercepted by a third-party.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.designsolution.co.uk/sending-encrypted-mail-with-apple-mail/</link>
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