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By default when you plug in a external hard drive via USB to a Windows XP computer auto play will automatically launch. This can be beneficial if you rarely plug in USB hard drives and when you do you like to decide what action to take such as copying pictures from the drive to the…
I had a IBM ThinkPad laptop in the shop today and every five minutes or so 2 different pop up box’s would come up and give a error about not being able to connect via thankvantage access.
When updating Portage on a Gentoo system you generally have to update all the config files after wards. The default way to do this is to use etc-update. There is however a better way and that is to use dispatch-conf. One of the reasons I prefer it is that it makes a backup of the…
I use Gentoo Linux and I love it however the Portage package manager can be confusing sometimes with all the USE flags and other variables which can be set. Generally the error messages are fairly accurate with instructions however today I ran across a particularly stubborn package that just would not build.
There may come a time when you need to hide some sensitive data and send it in a email. Although there are better ways to do this with GPG keys, the old hide the code in some thing else trick is still a good one. The program we will use for this is called steghide.…
I needed to clean up a directory on a server that included numerous directories each with numerous files inside each directory. I decided to write a quick shell script that would archive with tar and then compress with bzip2. The shell script requires you pass in a variable which could technically just be “*” to include all…
On a recent installation of PostgreSQL on CentOS Linux I had some issues after making some configuration changes. I have a basic template of changes I make to Postgres after initial installation and then I restart the PostgreSQL server. This time when restarting Postgres it failed as shown below.
Question Defense uses the WPtouch iPhone Theme WordPress plugin for displaying the site in a user friendly format for mobile devices. This plugin is by far the best mobile theme I have used to date. Not only is it actively developed and constantly improving but it has an amazing admin page for customizing the mobile…
I have multiple sites I manage that run WordPress so I try to stay up to date on all of them. If you stay on op of upgrading WordPress then most of the updates are fairly easy and don’t require changing that many files. Instead of uploading the entire set of files again it is…