Month: April 2010

PHP 5.3.2 with IIS6 and FastCGI Installation Guide – Updated

There are many articles on the web that detail the installation of PHP on IIS6. Older, dated articles use the ISAPI that is no longer under development nor packaged with the more current versions of PHP. When an article describes the the installation of FastCGI for PHP and IIS, it is generally assumed that you have a working installation of…

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WordPress: Display Recently Updated Posts with Shortcode

Floating around the Internet is a piece of PHP code that is designed to display recently updated posts/pages in WordPress. For some reason or another, I was unable to get the code to work with the expected results. I attempted to convert the code for use with functions.php and shortcodes with little success. After submitting a request to experts-exchange for…

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VNC Server Autostart on RHEL5 / CentOS5

The following steps will autostart a VNC server on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x or CentOS 5.x operating system after a reboot. The Linux user account that needs VNC server to automatically start up after system reboot, must have a VNC password. To create a new (or reset a forgotten) VNC password, just login as root or su (switch…

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Using YUM package via CentOS online sources in RHEL5

This guide provides the steps to use the YUM package for CentOS on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation. Delete current YUM package Find all the YUM packages Delete all yum package,if error cause by dependence ,add –nodeps Download the relative packages Install, verbose, and print hash marks (ivh) Download the CentOS Base Repository Update your system Source: http://www.linuxcream.com/blog/linux-system/linux_redhat/using-yum-package-via-centos-online-sources-in-rhel5/

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Active@ KILLDISK for DOS

There are a few hard drives that needed to be wiped. I had tested DBAN, a freeware product that has worked successfully over the years and on practically everything I threw at it. There was a situation, once, where I was unable to wipe the hard disk with DBAN. I don’t remember exactly the cause for this inability, however, I…

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Media Player – How to delete the database

The media library is outdated or the source is no longer available, you would want to delete all the files in the C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player.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. To resolve this, go to your Services through Control Panel…

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SendEmail on Linux – Send SMTP Mail from the Command Line

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…

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