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If you run into an issue where a package is no longer maintained within Composer, here is a workaround for this issue.

On the 21st of November 2024, the Australian Labor Government guillotined the Social Media Minimum Age Bill through the House of Representatives and through the Senate, leaving only ONE DAY for public submissions to be lodged. This is my Submission to the Committee.

Do you self manage your email server? Are you now finding with large mailboxes it takes a long while to search? You might want to add Xapian full-text-searching into your mail server installation.

When using PHP's cURL function, you may come across this error in your website log when the cURL function fails to retrieve information back. Here is the solution to this problem.

Enclosed is the link to the document I submitted in response to the Australian Government's proposed Misinformation / Disinformation Bill. This Bill (if enacted) will grant ACMA dystopian censorship over Australia's citizens.

A recent computer hardware failure forced me to mount a hard drive via docking station to USB. However, every time I tried to introduce another USB drive, the drive mounted via the docking station disconnected. Here is the solution to this problem.

If you use Bind in a DDNS context, you may have stumbled across this error. Here is the resolution.

Here is a solution to integrate OpenDMARC-Reports into your email server, if your only means of doing so is via secure SMTP authentication.

Anyone who has done a custom install of PHP on a Linux OS with SeLinux enabled, would of at some time come across this error. Here is a solution.

This howto steps through how to set up caching on Bind 9, when your Bind server is also serving as a Primary name server as well as a resolver for hosted domains.