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Linux Ubuntu – User not in the sudoers file

Friday, March 23, 2012 10:51 No Comments

If your user is not in the sudoers file you won’t be able to do any root tasks. To fix this: 1. Boot into the recovery mode and load the root console. (Hold left shift on boot to show the Grub loader) 2. To make the file system writable execute: mount -o remount,rw / 3. [...]

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WordPress Custom post type and pagination problem – Error 404

Sunday, December 11, 2011 0:26 No Comments

1.5hour of pure frustration. After registering a custom post type, slug “news”, and creating a page “news” to display the latest posts the pagination just wouldn’t work. I was always getting a 404 error. Setting the permalinks to default and back to the old setting solved the problem. $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; [...]

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Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image – Windows XP Username and Password

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 20:56 No Comments

Microsoft provides Windows Virtual PC images for download. The virtual images are preinstalled with Internet Explorer 6 and IE7 which web developers can use to test their web sites. Windows XP may request the login username which is not stated on Microsoft’s website. Windows XP username: IE User password: Password1 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575

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Ipconfig /all missing ethernet adapters. Limited connection. Solved

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 13:54 No Comments

After a Windows 7  restart I had no network adapters showing after executing the ” ipconfig /all ” command but they showed up in the device manager, so the netowork was not working at all. After few hours researching the internet and thinking of a system reinstall I accidentaly found the solution. Other solutions: 1. [...]

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Email Ports

Monday, May 16, 2011 12:52 No Comments

Email ports POP3 – port 110 IMAP – port 143 SMTP – port 25 HTTP – port 80 Secure SMTP (SSMTP) – port 465 Secure IMAP (IMAP4-SSL) – port 585 IMAP4 over SSL (IMAPS) – port 993 Secure POP3 (SSL-POP) – port 995

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The Rasterbator

Saturday, February 5, 2011 2:18 No Comments

The Rasterbator is an application which creates rasterized versions of images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters. http://arje.net/rasterbator

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Upload/Download files with SFTP

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 21:01 No Comments

Uploading/Downloading files through your *nix console. Connection: $ sftp user@domain.com Available commands: ls list files pwd show which directory you are in on the server side lpwd show which directory you are in on the client side cd DIRECTORY change current location to DIRECTORY on the server side lcd DIRECTORY change current location to DIRECTORY [...]

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Redmine Drafts Plugin

Monday, November 8, 2010 22:11 No Comments

Jean Barth wrote a nice plugin for Redmine that saves drafts while you are writing issues. Many times people write some long text and then hit the wrong button, the browser crashes and they loose the data. The Drafts plugin saves the data periodically and it can be retrieved if the worst happens. Redmine Discussion [...]

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How to install Redmine on Bluehost

Saturday, November 6, 2010 18:22 No Comments

How to install Redmine on BlueHost under a subdomain.  Redmine is a popular project management software based on RubyOnRails. BlueHost is a shared hosting provider but allows you to use SSH access to your account. To enable SSH open a support ticket and send them a scan of your ID. I will give you rough [...]

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WordPress running on IIS and ugly permalinks starting with index.php

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 12:27 No Comments

You may have experienced when running WordPress on IIS that the permalinks have that ugly index.php included. Pretty way: www.mysite.com/2010/11/mypost IIS way: www.mysite.com/index.php/2010/11/mypost By tweaking the .htaccess and using some rewrite rules this can be fixed. (ISAPI_Rewrite required)

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