Monthly Archives: May 2012

Install PEAR modules on CentOS

Pear is used to fetch and install additional PHP packages from the Pear project. To use on CentOS first install Pear so we can run the pear binary: yum install php-pear Now pear is installed we can install the Net_MAC package – which can be used to discover the manufacturer from a Mac address: Example… Read more »

Windows Permissions

After restoring files from a backup on Windows 2008 I was receiving the message: “unable to display current owner”. To recursively change the owner on the folders right-click on the Command Prompt and choose “Run as  Administrator” then use the command: takeown /f “c:\folder\subfolder” /r I also had to use the icacls command to actually… Read more »

Windows 7 ATI Mobility Radeon 1600

So my laptop graphics card is legacy! And on a Windows 7 install the graphics were poor – not sure whether to blame AMD or Microsoft because it was all very smooth under Ubuntu 12.04. Anyway to allow the install of Vista drivers the Mobility Modder needs to be used on the drivers first. After… Read more »