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Download PuTTY from the official website. As a minimum you only need PuTTY.exe, but the zip file and installer also include the following utilities which you may find useful: PSFTP (a Secure FTP client for transferring files between your web server and PC) Pageant (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink which will [...]

I was recently playing with Google’s webmaster tools and ran into a problem with my custom error page. Although I have had it set up for some time, it was apparently incorrectly configured. Google complained ‘We’ve detected that your 404 file (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header. [...]

gnulib is a collection of approximately 590 routines which allow programs to be built on a cross platform basis. These are files intended to be shared at the source level rather than being a library meant to be installed and linked against so, unlike most projects, Gnulib does not normally generate a source tarball distribution; [...]

Glib is available from GTK by FTP. At the time of writing, the current version is 2.12.12 Download the source code Connect to your server using PuTTY or some other SSH client Connect to GTK’s FTP server by typing the command ftp ftp.gtk.org Login using the username anonymous and password anon@ Change to the directory [...]

I recently ran these pages through a Web Optimiser and the speeds were not that impressive, so I have decided to implement mod_gzip. This will compress the textual portion of these pages so that they download quicker. The procedure will NOT follow the familiar procedure for those who follow this site, so read on… Download [...]