A group of users needed to change from one FTP client application to another. There was no conversion available for the original FTP application, only a spreadsheet that had been maintained. There was a need to bulk add a couple of hundred ftp accounts into a new FTP client. The selected FTP client is FileZilla. A little known tidbit about…
Read More »Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is remote control software to allow computers interact with one another as a server and client. It is developed to ease the administration of remote machines without using the console. For Windows users, there may be a a familiar feel similar to that of Windows Terminal Services (RDP). VNCServer is standard on a Red Hat Enterprise…
Read More »A recent task was to setup a JBoss Application Server on a Linux box. I created an Ubuntu 8.10 server virtual machine on a VMware Workstation. This was a fresh install of the core operating system only, no optional installation packages were added during the installation. I started from scratch, as too many guides make too many assumptions in their…
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After installing an application that required port 8080, the application failed to start because the port was already in use. Changing the new application to use port 8090 worked, but it still left the question of what was running on 8080. As on Windows, Linux provides a command‑line utility, netstat, which can be used to inspect open ports and the…
Read More »To get my feet wet, I wanted to test an installation of WordPress MU (multi-user) edition. The installation seems too problematic on a Windows workstation, even when running in an environment such as AppServ , WAMP, XAMPP, or Uniform Server. My preference is XAMPP. I have tested and used all these environments. I originally preferred the Uniform Server as it…
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As reported in their June 2008 weblog, Adobe released version 9 of its Adobe Reader PDF display software. It is reported to add new capabilities, offer better performance and stronger security. However, I had not adopted this release until recently. It wasn’t too long after the installation, when I discovered that the web browser plugin was not working. To get…
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I have read throughout the internet many different methods to enable the JRE plugin in a Firefox installation on a Linux box; however, I was not able to get the plugin to work. Accidentally, I found the right answer from the source. There is also a procedure for Firefox, though I had selected the one for Mozilla 1.4 or later….
Read More »I recently encountered a database that was 4 MB in size with it’s respective transaction log at 460 MB. The transaction log is used in a recovery model to restore the database to a point in time. I wanted to reduce the size of the transaction log. More importantly, I wasn’t exactly clear as to why a transaction log of…
Read More »You already have JBoss ready and operational. JBoss can be started through a command line or through a shell script that you have created; however, these steps are manual and an automated approach is desired. The goal is to automate JBoss as a service or daemon. There are many, many tutorials that are all over the internet that offer scripts…
Read More »Atlassian JIRA is a bug and issue tracker. Atlassian JIRA lets you priorities, assign, track, report and audit your ‘issues,’ whatever they may be — from software bugs and help-desk tickets to project tasks and change requests. After installing JIRA, on a CentOS 5.2 Linux installation, I wanted to automate the starting and stopping of JIRA by creating a service….
Read More »Permalinks are the URLs to an individual post, category, page, etc. These links generally take the form of index.php?p=444 (or some number). Pretty Permalinks are the same URLs crafted to make sense to the user. Apache offers this ability, though generally not set by default. IIS through version 6 (Windows 2003) does not offer this. There are ISAPI filters both…
Read More »XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, comprised of an Apache HTTP Server, a MySQL database, PHP and Perl programming languages. It is easy to install and setup with little configuration. However, the default installation of XAMPP does not enable the permalinks, though the permalinks structure is customizable to create the .htaccess file. With no permalinks,…
Read More »Based on the contents of a folder, Windows Vista will attempt to select a default view. In more cases than not, Windows Vista selects a view that is inconsistent with the folder content or most likely not the desirable view. An example of this may be a folder of documents and pictures and the default view will be for Music…
Read More »Global Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog into different languages. After activating the Global Translator plugin, it is displayed under the Admin Settings as Global Translator. However, the link is incorrect and will not display. The link selects an absolute path that is incorrect. https://it.megocollector.com/wp-admin/:/…/it/wp-content/plugins/global-translator/options-translator.php The plugin is still…
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NetSarnag Computer, Inc. offers a product called XManager 3 that will enable a Windows workstation to access a Linux box. However, there are some configuration changes that need to be made on the Linux box for this application to work. The documentation offered by netSarang Computer, Inc. is far from accurate as it looks outdated. Too many assumptions are made….
Read More »WordPress offers a default password recovery method that is available on the login screen. Under the Username and Password box there is a link to Lost your password?. This password recovery method would recover the user password if the user defines a valid and working email address in the user profile. If the e-mail account is not accessible or unknown…
Read More »I needed a SQL query that would parse through hundreds of thousands of records and list duplicate content. I found a SQL query that would work and made my own modifications to it so that the query may return the desired results. This is one of those things I will not remember so here is the script. SELECT emailaddress, firstname,…
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