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I recently switched back to Thunderbird from Outlook for various reasons and I ran into a annoying little thing. When replying to a message the cursor automatically goes to the bottom of the message, under the quoted text. I found this really annoying because it means you have to read or scroll past all the…
The other day I had attempted to use the Dell Linux BIOS upgrade utility on a Dell Poweredge 650 server however it wouldn’t run properly under CentOS Linux but I decided to give it another shot on a Dell Poweredge 2650 and this time it worked without issue. Below there are steps on how to…
Often times when I have Windows XP installations which will not boot one of the first things I will try is a check disk from the recovery console. This will often times fix Windows file problems which are preventing Windows from booting properly. In order to do this you will need a Windows XP installation…
Earlier I was doing some work on a Dell Poweredge 2650 with CentOS Linux installed on it which we use for a development server at the shop. The message on the screen had been set awhile back with a joke message but I forgot how it was set so while I was poking around in…
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to upgrade the BIOS on a Dell Poweredge 650. I had multiple problems because I didn’t have a floppy drive to use at first and the fact that the PE650 is an older Dell server model. Since I didn’t have a floppy…
When connecting to a PostgreSQL database using pgAdmin you may receive an error letting you know that the server instrumentation is not installed. This is a warning to let you know that you can install the adminpack contribution which will provide more functionality to pgAdmin including the ability to modify the pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf configuration…
Last night I was working on upgrading the BIOS on an older Dell Poweredge 650 that I have been using as a PostgreSQL development server. One of the CD’s I needed to create is downloaded from Dell as two parts of an ISO file that needed to be combined so below is information on how…
While working on a clients Ubuntu Linux computer I needed to send some of the logs to myself so I could analyze them at a later date but there was not an SMTP server installed on the computer. This can be resolved by installing the Exim MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) using the below apt-get command…
The latest available Ruby version in the default CentOS repositories is currently Ruby version 1.8.5. Many packages in the default CentOS repos are notorious for lagging way behind what versions of the packages are currently available. Even though Ruby 1.8.7 and Ruby 1.9.X are available I simply needed to get Ruby 1.8.6 installed for a…