mIRC is one of the greatest and most popular Windows IRC clients available. Everyone who has used it will agree that mIRC is an excellent tool to put you in touch with other tech-savy individuals throughout the many IRC communities.

The program is reliable and stable, widely adopted, and sports a huge library of third party scripts which can be installed to customize just about everything in the program. Some of the most notable and yet taken-for-granted features about mIRC are it’s advanced post-connection preferences, allowing you to specify macros for actions such as joining a specific series of chat channels, specifying a user name specific to each IRC server, automatically registering a nickname you want to have privileges to, etc, all done automatically after the connection has been established, and each macro being executed appropriately dependent on which IRC network you have connected to.

Those configuration options, while being your best friend, can also be your worse enemy. Unfortunately by default, mIRC stores all the configuration preferences within the Windows registry. In this visual guide, I will show you how to make mIRC portable and able to be easily moved from computer to computer. All of this, while retaining your preferences without the need for the Windows Registry database. Continue Reading

Many Linux Based Operating System Distribution Variants will require a manual reboot or restart of the network interface card to apply any changes you have made to the networking configuration after you’ve completed your work.

So how do you quickly restart the networking interface card without bringing down the whole server for longer than necessary? Luckily, Linux allows us to easily restart the networking interface without having to reboot, meaning we can have your network connection back up in seconds rather than a few minutes due to rebooting.

Do I need to restart my NIC if I…

If you’re not sure if the changes you’ve made warrant a network restart, you can check this quick list I put together of common changes made to the networking interface configurations for Ethernet adapters. Continue Reading

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So you’ve found yourself wondering why you can bypass the wait timer downloads, but haven’t had any success trying to bypass the HotFile.com hourly limit? This guide is for you. We will quickly go over how the HotFile.com hourly limit works, and then explain how to bypass the HotFile.com hourly limit.

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First, you will need to consider this. HotFile.com uses two methods of limitation for downloading on their site. The first, the download wait timer, requires you to wait a small number of seconds before the download link becomes available for submitting. This is controlled by JavaScript, and can be bypassed using my guide Hotfile.com Timer No Wait Hack. Continue Reading

Redirecting non-www to www for ALL of your domains.

This guide will quickly go over why you should not use both www and non www versions of your domain, but choose only one, and how this affects your search engine rankings for Google.

Why you should only have www or non www, but not both for your website and it’s search engine optimization.

Many people have made their website accessible both through http://www.domain.com as well as just http://domain.com. This is not generally a good idea for your SEO (search engine optimization). You’re asking “Why?”, and I will explain. Google “king of search engines” and the only search engine that really should be important to you, treats subdomains as separate domains than the main domain.

In Google’s eyes; www.domain.com, domain.com are separate websites. If you are thinking “Great! My website is then going to be listed twice at Google!”, you will now need to reconsider, Continue Reading

SSL Certificates are considered a necessity with any website which stores or transfers any personal information. Users visiting your website are looking for and expecting to see evidence that their data will be securely transmitted, and it is a webmaster’s responsibility to provide such protection to their users.

SSL Certificates are an excellent tool to maintain the trust of your new and current user base. Without such a prominent and industry standard security measure in place, many users will simply “bounce” off of your website, as for a majority of the users of the internet, it is not worth the unknown risk to them to transmit their personal information to a destination which has not invested in such security measures.

Now that you have gotten your SSL Certificate installed, your site is ready to be viewed via https:// . However, for users typing in your web address in a search engine or their address bar, https:// is not the standard URL prefix which will be applied when connecting to your website. By default, all web browsers automatically make an http:// connection, which is not encrypted. With that, your current dilemma is how to you force your web site users to automatically connect with the secure https:// protocol, rather than the default http:// .

This brief guide will help you easily enforce the usage of your SSL Certificate and help you maintain the trust and confidence of your userbase with your SSL encrypted connection. Continue Reading