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I was having trouble view Google Toolbar local search history past the most recent 15 entries. I have auto complete turned on so if I started typing a couple letters it would show older entries so I knew they existed. I figured the easiest way to get the entire list was to just go to…
Finding out what application is running on a specific port in Windows XP is easy by using two command line utilities. By using netstat with the proper switches you can list out all of the ports that are being used and then use Tasklist to list all of the applications that are running. The combination…
First off you can add multiple IP’s to each SliceHost VPS. Adding the secondary IP address to a SliceHost Virtual Private Server (VPS) is easy. Open the SliceManager control panel and click the Help tab to open a support ticket. In the ticket state that you want a secondary IP, the justification for it, and…
Follow the below instructions to have your Redmine application send email using TLS through Gmail. As long as you have a Gmail account you will be able to send mail through smtp.gmail.com. Install TLS: First install TLS for the Redmine project. Login to the server with the user that runs Redmine and issue the below…
If you want to dynamically add a member to a Ruby object, use the hash/array brackets and symbol (:user_id) as shown in the iRb session below. As you can see the dot notation will not work. bash >> d = AccessMode.find(1) => #<AccessMode id: 1, device_id: 31218, mode: "dialup", timestamp: "2007-12-25 15:52:55"> >> d[:user_id] =…
The power of the Unix command vi never ceases to amaze me. I have known how to search and replace easily using vi for a long time however I didn’t know how to find and replace plus insert a line break during the replace. After toying around with vi for awhile I was able to…
Previously I created an article about listing all WordPress tags on a single page however some things have changed since that time. When going back and looking at the article it looks like some of the tags have changed since that time. I do have a WordPress plugin installed called Simple Tags so take that…
Upgrading walmgr.py is easy since really this is just a python script. The most complicated part of the upgrade process will be keeping your database cluster up. Follow the below steps and you should avoid any downtime. Download Latest SkyTools: Visit PgFoundry to download the latest SkyTools. Issue the below command from /usr/local/src on each…
Upgrading LiteSpeed web server from 3.x.x to 4.x.x is easy even though you cannot do so through the web admin console. You are probably used to being able to click the upgrade link in the web admin console and have LiteSpeed do all of the work including having already downloaded the newer release. When upgrading…