As noted in a previous article I have been working on a couple new Linux servers with a minimal install of CentOS on them. The /var, /usr, and / directories each were configured with 2GB of space within a logical volume group that has 1TB of space available. I first expanded the /var and /usr…
While testing various settings and other changes with logical volume groups I had created a test logical volume group that I no longer needed so I needed to remove it. When using the below information be aware that any data contained within the logical volume group will be gone after the logical volume is removed.…
I recently had a couple new CentOS Linux servers brought online at a colo that a company I work for uses. I had the colo do a very simple install of CentOS so I could handle the details without having to remove a bunch of packages we didn’t need. The servers have two one terabyte…
Earlier I was working on a Zen Cart site and ran into an issue installing the Ultimate SEO URL add-on. The Ultimate SEO URL add-on creates more SEO(Search Engine Optimization) friendly URL’s for Zen Cart. The site in question already had a previous version of the Ultimate SEO URL add-on installed and once I was…
We have been refurbishing a bunch of Xbox 360’s lately in our computer shop and today I was going to test one out for an extended amount of time so I needed to find a monitor or something to display the output of the Xbox 360. I tried getting it working on a Dell 1950FP…
I started some work on a online store today that is using Zen Cart open source e-commerce software to power the store. I love Zen Cart, which initially was branched off of osCommerce, to power online stores and have used Zen Cart or osCommerce to power online stores for going on a decade. The first…
Similar to the situation I described in yesterdays article I was working on a computer with Windows XP Home Edition this past weekend and the mouse or touchpad was not working. I had navigated through various windows, control panels, etc. and needed to close some of them so I could continue. The problem was that…
Last weekend I found myself working on a laptop that had numerous problems including it could not boot. After fixing the Master Boot Record(MBR) the computer was able to boot but the mouse was not working. It is fairly easy to navigate around a Windows XP computer without a mouse however right clicking is something…
Earlier this week I brought some security cameras from my house to the computer shop to hookup not only for security but also so we could make some funny clips about what happens in the store and on the sidewalk outside of the store. I ended up bringing 4 cameras which included a D-Link DCS-3220…