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The media library is outdated or the source is no longer available, you would want to delete all the files in the C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player. However, all but a couple of them remain, one being the likely rather large database. This was the situation on a Windows Vista workstation with SP2....
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SendEmail is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is quite adaptable. SendEmail is written in Perl and requires no modules. SendEmail is licensed under the GNU GPL, either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version. Although it is supported by Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, & Windows XP, the main focus for this article is the Linux platform, specifically CentOS 5.4 and RHEL 5.4....
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To install MySQL server on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS5 operating systems is quite simple if you happen to know the correct yum packages. After a little research, this is the quickest and easiest path to get MySQL server up and running....
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A recent attempt to install Tomcat5 through the RPM repositories with the statement yum install tomcat5 failed to be as successful to run the application. Also there is a need to run Tomcat with Sun Java JDK not the openJDK that is available through the channels. These are the steps to get Tomcat up and running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) or CentOS 5 (CENTOS5) installation using version 5.4....
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There are many sites that will provide far greater detail and comment than this one. However, this is a list of basic commands that I have found repeatedly useful....
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This is yet another way that I had pieced together to install the Java Development Kit (JDK) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and CentOS 5.4 system. This time, the process is accomplished through the use of PuTTY and XMing....
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nautilusThis is part of my series, useful Linux commands and tips. Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Like all applications that run under Linux, Nautilus has it's own command line options....
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puttyThis is part of my series, useful Linux commands and tips. Although there is a great GUI utility to simplify service administration, called Service Confiuration tool, in an environment that favors the command line equivalent, it would also be good to know those commands. These commands will require root level access....
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