Tag Archive: disable

August 13, 2016   /   by Marco   /   , , ,

DISABLING A SERVICE IN CENTOS

DISABLING A SERVICE IN CENTOS

I’ve done this a couple of times and I keep forgetting the commands so I thought I’d better write them down. In order to disable a specific service in CentOS startup use the following command. In particular the dovecot service chkconfig dovecot off chkconfig dovecot –del So basically it’s: chkconfig [name of service] off chkconfig […]

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October 18, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , ,

Disabling Google Chrome Updates

Disabling Google Chrome Updates

By default Google Chrome automatically updates itself to the latest version. This is a good thing if you want to make sure you have the latest security updates and bug fixes. However, it was announced at the beginning of this year that NPAPI (which uses Java) will no longer be supported after Chrome Version 45, […]

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June 3, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , ,

How to disable directory browsing in WAMP

How to disable directory browsing in WAMP

If you’re using WAMP and are browsing a folder without an index.php or index.html file, the WAMP server will display all the files contained in that folder. Here’s an example:   This can become a security risk as the visitor is able to browse and download all the files. In order to disable this you […]

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March 5, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , ,

How to disable the right click for a Kiosk website

How to disable the right click for a Kiosk website

In the past several post you may have noticed that I’ve been writing quite a bit about Chrome and Kiosk. There is a reason for this as I’ve been involved in setting up a Kiosk for a project. Now in this post I’m just going to write down how I disabled the right click (context menu) […]

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March 5, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , ,

How to disable Java was blocked because its out of date message

How to disable Java was blocked because its out of date message

If you run an old version of Java and found it more stable than the latest version Chrome will keep bugging you to update the plugin. This prevents the Java app to run and can be very annoying. Here’s the example message: One way to disable to disable this message from appearing is to use […]

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March 3, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , ,

How to disable the restore message in Chrome

How to disable the restore message in Chrome

Yesterday I posted a short article on how to Disable the Chrome Developer tools for the Chrome Kiosk mode setup. Another little handy tip if you’re looking at using the Kiosk Mode, is to disable the annoying message “Chrome didn’t shut down correctly. Restore”. The options are to close the message or to press the restore […]

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February 23, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , ,

How to disable synchronisation for a mySQL database table

How to disable synchronisation for a mySQL database table

In a previous post, I wrote an article on how to setup database replication using mySQL. I recently had to figure out a way to exclude a database table in the replication process and this is what I had to do: NOTE: I’m using WAMP as my website hosting software Open up the my.ini file under […]

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