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My problem here was in the WordPress admin for posts and pages I was unable to see the visual tab in the entry box. I had seen lots of ideas suggested about how to resolve the issue but none seemed to do the trick. It was mentioned that clearing the cache could resolve the issue…
Recently I was assisting a company set up a new network. This particular company had multiple drops connected to different routers and each server had at least two Network Interface Cards(NICs). The servers were CentOS version 5.2 and seemed to be having trouble routing out one network or the other depending on how the default…
When I first installed NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress I could not get the watermarking working. I read of all sorts of problems with it including FreeType not being installed, permission problems, etc. but everything that I was trying was not resolving my issue. During upload I was not getting any errors so at the…
Sometimes after upgrading your RPM packages with YUM there will be new configuration files generated. These files have .rpmnew tacked onto the end and are created this way so they do not overwrite any configuration file changes you have made. You can find all of the .rpmnew files by running the following command from your…
Ruby on Rails 1.2 and above automatically set a Content-type header including charset=UTF-8, which is well and good if you’re designing an application from scratch – JoelOnSoftware has a good introduction to character sets, for those who need a refresher – but breaks things in subtle ways if you are upgrading a legacy Rails 1.1…
It has been awhile since I created a custom service to use in a firewall policy on a Fortinet firewall and I was having trouble. I was thinking of the service as a NAT rule where you map the port one to one such as wanting to allow SSH you would have the firewall NAT…
While working on this site I decided to not only have a tag cloud widget but also build out a page that included nothing but a list of all the tags marked for each article. This way someone could click on the tag page I wanted to list all the tags in alphabetical order and…
There are a couple settings that may need to be changed when uploading zip files via the NextGen Gallery admin interface within WordPress. The actual plugin notes that php.ini should have the following setting changed from the default of 2M to 20M like below.
Output of a shell command can be written to a file by using > but if you don’t want to overwrite the contents of the file then you can use >> to write to the end of the file. The below will write the date to a file in /var/log: date > /var/log/currenttime The below…