A friend contacted me with a problem booting into Windows. I asked him to boot into Ubuntu and this is what we found. Gparted reported the disk as 'unallocated' and 'Cannot have overlapping partitions' an 'fdisk -l' told me 'Partition table entries are... » More
I have output from a router (but I believe modem output may be similar) with mac addresses in the format: 0050.56AC.4022 Four digit blocks separated by dots but I needed it in the format of 2 digit blocks separated by colons. My router output was lines... » More
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... » More
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... » More
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... » More
In Bind v9.9.0 the default option for zone file format on a slave is a raw binary format. For troubleshooting these can be converted back to text using named-compilezone. An example is shown below: /usr/sbin/named-compilezone -f raw -F text -o... » More
Installed ProFTPd on CentOS 6 and found that users could not log in. The proftpd logs showed: USER jonny (Login failed): Incorrect password. The /var/log/secure log showed: proftpd: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_stack.so):... » More
The quick way to add Galleries to WordPress is illustrated below: First create a new Page (with the Gallery page as a parent if necessary) Click the Upload/Insert icon above the WYSIWYG editor Click the 'Select Files' button and locate the... » More
To get that headless Linux server capturing screenshots of web pages we need: Xvfb e.g. apt-get install xvfb Khtml2png2 (and dependencies) After installation of the above the steps are below and I wrapped it up into a PHP script which also did... » More
As a MySQL user for a number of years I needed a translation tutorial from MySQL to PostgreSQL. So to get started on CentOS: Installation yum install postgresql-server If you also want the phpPgAdmin WUI: yum install phpPgAdmin php-pgsql... » More
