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... » 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... » 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... » More

BIND Convert Slave Raw Format

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

WordPress Galleries

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

Web Screenshots with Xvfb and Khtml2Png2

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

Beginning PostgreSQL

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

Crossover Cable

My first crossover cable. I used the following diagram from Tournas Dimitrios' Blog: So the normal ends of the cable is wired as T-568B as shown above on the right. So I cut one end and manipulated the wires as shown on T-568A above: Cut the... » More