The Taragana Translator Plugin is the best translation software I have found for WordPress . Not only is it easily customizable but for only $30 you can have your entire blog translated into 13 languages in less than 15 minutes. It is however beneficial to customize some of the settings and especially to add a…
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You might see the following when issuing the normal stop command to postgres via pg_ctl. -bash-3.1$ pg_ctl stop waiting for server to shut down……………………………………………………… failed pg_ctl: server does not shut down Sometimes postgres does not want to shutdown by just issuing a pg_ctl stop as the postgres user. User might feel the need to “kill…
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Its fairly straight forward to monitor a postgresql table’s activity with the wonderful script check_postgres.pl created by Greg Sabino Mullane. This script is useful for so many things I will surely be writing about other ways to use this script with Nagios and Cacti. Download Script: Download the check_postgres.pl script here.
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In Linux you can list the contents of a users crontab from root by issuing the below command: [root@server ~]#crontab -u username -l How do you list crontabs for all of the users on your Linux server? The easiest way is to list the contents of /var/spool/cron which will provide you a list of all…
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Its fairly easy to merge Microsoft Excel fields together but you have to be aware of formulas and then with how to pull that data out of the formula to save it on its own. I used this to merge title, first name, and last name together. Follow the directions below and you should have…
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Use lftp for Linux command line FTP with explicit TLS/SSL. I was still having trouble though with lftp and implicit TLS/SSL. Below is the command to use lftp to connect to an FTP server that requires an explicit TLS/SSL. Command: lftp -du user,password ftp.example.com You should see the below after connecting. Type ls to see…
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There are a bunch of WordPress plugins that claim to make your blog mobile friendly but after looking through a couple of them the WP-PDA plugin is the best. This plugin support multiple themes such as an iPhone theme and a PDA theme. The cool thing about this is the iPhone and Touch display things…
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It is fairly easy to add Google Adsense ads to the WP-PDA plugin for WordPress. If you follow the easy steps below you will have Google ads showing up in no time with WP-PDA. You will be required to edit the source code for the WP-PDA WordPress plugin so make sure to back things up…
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I had to rebuild a few of these notebooks over the past few weeks and from my experience tearing down a notebook, especially an ultracompact notebook, can sometimes be a pain. I came across this site in my research and found some very detailed teardown guides, complete with technical diagrams. This should be a help…
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