AndreFaca.com – Personal Blog [beta]

I have recently I have made Linux the primary OS on all my computers. However, mostly due to Adobe Flash/Photoshop and other few important applications, I decided to leave Windows on a separate disk on each of the computers. (I’ve basically installed Linux into 2 new disks and left the existing Windows drives untouched, as [...]

I have noticed my household’s Xperia U (ST25i) slowed down quite a lot after upgrading to ICS (6.1.1.B.1.54-Stock Version), using the official method provided by Sony. I do not want to have the phone rooted at the moment, so wanted to ensure I would find a solution without requiring such thing. And I just did. [...]

Nearly 2 years ago, I have posted a small review and introduction to the D-Link DIR-600′s basic and advanced settings. With time, I ended up finding a few bugs on the router, and so did my visitors, who left a good amount of comments there. I ended up installing custom firmware on the router, but [...]

Unfortunately you cannot just install VirtualBox Guest Additions  in a fresh Fedora 18 install, as it will require a few additional packages to be installed and a few minutes checking on the logs to identify any possible further issues. While the Guest Additions are not required to use a CLI-based Virtual Machine,  they are essential [...]

Clearing the eximstats database isn’t something difficult to do via phpMyAdmin or a similar web-based database management application, and shouldn’t harm anything in your system. However, if you run into any issues, or just want to re-initialize the database and re-create the tables structures manually via SSH, here’s what you should do: mysqladmin drop eximstats [...]

Symptoms: You add password-protected directories to folders within your WordPress installation, but instead of showing a password-protection prompt, your browser will show a 404 page instead This appears to be a common issue for users that try to password-protect folders within an installation of WordPress. This happens because you did not define a 401/403 (depending [...]

Symptom: When you log into WebMail and select RoundCube, you will get an Error 500. The first thing to try is to force an update for RoundCube by issuing the following command via SSH: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/update-roundcube –force If the reason for RoundCube not to work is its configuration files, this command will do the trick. Now, [...]

I have had difficulties getting this to work as I wanted to, so I thought it would be good something to write about. I am using a Samsung LED TV from the 7 Series, but you should be able to use this on other series, just as long as your Samsung TV is able to [...]

I’ve had the idea to write about this subject a few months ago, and left it on a post it on my desk. Luckily, I have just seen it and didn’t want to throw it away without posting something about it. In these days, every single web host promises you that your data is safe [...]

I do have a lot of people asking me what’s the best way to transfer their website from a web host to another without any downtime. While I think this is almost impossible (at least coherently and without anyone noticing it), there are a few tricks that you can use to minimize the downtime. One [...]