It took me a minute to figure out how to use the right mouse button with the QwasiPad application on my iPod Touch. All you have to do is tap the screen with two fingers. It works really well every time. QwasiPad is an application I installed on my iPod Touch to act as a wireless keyboard…
Its fairly easy to get away from your computer these days without really having to worry about a server you are supposed to monitor dropping and being stuck in traffic trying to get back to the house to resolve the issue. Now you can do all of your initial troubleshooting on the way home and…
**Please Note This Article Is Paginated at the bottom and includes 4 pages** How do I create Cacti Graph Templates? How do I display multiple data sources on one Cacti graph? What do all the Cacti options mean? What is a CDEF? I created a Cacti Graph but all of my data sources are displaying…
If you are unable to sync your iPod don’t try restoring or anything just yet as the problem might be extremelly simple to fix. I noticed that on my Windows XP laptop that if I plug my iPod into different USB ports that things act differently. I have three USB ports on the back of…
Blurring portions of an image with Photoshop is a snap. The most complicated part is figuring out which blur effect you want to use! There are a ton of choices including Blur, Blur More, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Lens Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Shape Blur, Smart Blur, and Surface Blur. My personal favorite for…
Creating multiple cacti graphs using the same script is really easy. It took me a minute to realize it but if your script input values then you can just click the “Create Graph” drop down and create multiple of any graph you have configured. See the two images below that show how to do this…
PostgreSQL 8.3 changed the way the Query and Index Statistics are configured from previous versions of postgreSQL including 8.2 and below. Things are technically easier now as the stats collecting is turned on by default and there are less commands to enter into the configuration to get all of the stats you will need. I…
I noticed this error during a deployment of numerous servers that were configured with litespeed, postgreSQL, and ruby. The installation process was to install ruby, install ruby gems, install postgreSQL, install litespeed, and then sync up the web directory using SVN. After doing so connect via a browser to the server to test things out.…
You might see this error when attempting to install various packages or gems on CentOS Linux. I noticed it when attempting to install the ruby gem named eventmachine. After installing one RPM package via yum I no longer received the error when attempting to install the eventmachine gem.