There was a need to determine the number of processes that was running on a Linux installation, specifically CentOS 5.6. I can’t find the source of this again, however, did use Google to find this information. Anyway, here is the command line needed. This command returned the desired results. The result will be a number, the number of processes that…
Read More »A command line script was needed to backup the systemstate of Windows 2003 domain controller with the builtin Microsoft NTBackup utility called ntbackup.exe. The thebackroomtech has a respectable example of such a script from which I have created a modified version to better suit our requirements. This script was created to backup a Windows 2003 domain controller systemstate. To break…
Read More »Recently created a WordPress theme where I wanted rounded corners around text boxes, buttons, and forms. Being not too patient with the creation of little corner images to satisfy this requirement within Internet Explorer, I decided to use the -moz-border-radius within the stylesheet. The drawback is that this -moz-border-radius will only work within Mozilla based Internet explorers and not the…
Read More »With just over a year of what I would consider normal use, I discovered that my phone, the Blackberry Storm 9530 was no longer capable of producing sound through the built-in loud speaker. As I have learned with this phone, that a hard reboot, caused by the removal of the battery, generally repairs any problem that I have encountered in…
Read More »Outlook on Vista or Windows 7 is either too small or offscreen. The icon appears at the bottom, and only a right-click and “maximize” will it appear, fully maximized. If I click “restore”, it disappears. I want to be able to size the window and move it around the screen. Rebooting/restarting does not help. The above was paraphrased from a…
Read More »This guide will detail the upgrade of the Java Development Kit (JDK) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.54 and CentOS 5.5 operating system. This example is accomplished through the use of PuTTY and XMing. In our example the following guide was used to install the original JAVA JDK. Install Java and Set Environment Variables Download JDK6 Note: The…
Read More »For years the practice had been to backup the website using the Full Backup functionality from within CPanel. It has worked valently until recently. Recent backup attempts would proceed as usual and upon completion send out an email alerting the administrator that the backup had succesfully completed. However, the backup did not successfully complete. The backup was far from complete….
Read More »To find a rare record is difficult enough. To find an image of one is almost as difficult to find as the record itself. To find an image worth using can prove to be as difficult as finding the original record itself. In some cases, it is possible to create a mockup of an extremely rare record while maintaining the…
Read More »Being relatively novice to SVN, I needed to backup a recent installation. I found a couple of great scripts that was described for Linux, however, will work for Windows with additional software that is described in this article. Dump the repository to a file. Or dump the repository to a compressed file. This requires gzip for Windows. Or dump the…
Read More »A server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 after a period of time of successful log rotation, failed to logrotate the Apache logs. The Apache logs grew into the GBs. There didn’t seem to be any apparent or logical reason for this behavior, as the log rotation scripts were identical to other comparable servers. However, a command to debug…
Read More »In previous versions of Windows with IIS installed, the installation of PHP could be difficult. Instructions were inconsistant and there were too many variables that could have gone wrong. The installation woes of IIS seem to be a thing of the past. In one rare instance, using an article, titled Installing PHP on Windows 7, that was found in a…
Read More »We all have our reasons for wanting to do this, some may be for the “right” reasons, while others are not. It can be argued that disabling the IPv6 protocol is not appropriate and that it may effect some Windows functionality. However, IPv6 has been the culprit to some recent anomalies, including on a Windows Vista build where IIS could…
Read More »When it comes to the removal of a virus, Trojan, pest, or some other malicious application, it has been my practice to isolate the problem by removing it from the equation. What is meant by that is that there are cases where the system is inoperable or where several applications have been hijacked like Task Manager, Registry Editor, and other…
Read More »There are a few good articles as to how to install PHP on a Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit edition. One of which is titled Vista 64 – IIS 7 – PHP x64. However, once installed, you may encounter the ability to access the website via localhost or with 127.0.0.1, however, not via the IP address of the computer. After…
Read More »Using the command line to parse through the logs is an alternate method to log parser. A benefit that this would serve over log parser is that this method will also parse Apache logs. Here is an example for parsing all logs in a specific folder for a specific IP address and writing to a new file called loglist.txt.
Read More »Microsoft Outlook 2007 has enough bells and whistles to keep the application usable, however, for some reason the search feature stopped returning results. After several days of struggling with this for resolution, I finally figured out how to return results. No, there is no need for any third party application. Utilities such as the defunct Lookout, which requires a tweak…
Read More »A backup of every file in every sub-directory created zipped archives of each individual file. This was not the intended result. To resolve this each file must be restored to it’s original location and remove the created archive. Research directed me into a couple of different routes, that didn’t really work for me or produce the desired result. Here is…
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