Below is a step by step guide to export your Microsoft Outlook contacts to Excel as well as a step by step guide to export your Windows Mail to Excel. If you are running Windows Vista follow the Windows Mail steps and any other Windows version, including Windows XP, should use the Microsoft Outlook steps.…
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I recently reinstalled a CentOS 5.2 server running ISPConfig using apache for virtual web hosting. The first site I was reinstalling the RapidSSL certificate for was not working. It continued to tell me that it was a non trusted self signed certificate. Eventually I figured out the only issue was that ISPConfig was not restarting the web…
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I have been playing around with Tiltview for the past couple of days which is an addition to a WordPress plugin called NextGen FlashViewer. Let me start by saying that even though I had a couple problems when starting out the combination of NextGen Gallery, NextGen Flashviewer, and Tiltview is one of the coolest combinations…
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If you want to see the actual active lines from a configuration file in Linux you can exclude any lines with comments by issuing the below command. shell# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf | grep -v “# *” If you also want to exclude the blank lines from the file use this command. shell# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf | grep…
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I was a bit furstrated last night when I tried to install the flash templates from paulvanroekel.nl because the installer was telling me it was completed yet I could not find the templatebs. After trying to figure it out for a bit I went back to the site and noticed I had missed the install…
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There are numerous reasons it is beneficial to have your own gem server including controlling the versions of various gems deployed to all of your servers. Below is a brief explanation of how to install a gem server on your local network. 1. Install Web Server: If you do not already have a web server…
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When initially attempting to install the data_fabric gem I was getting the below error. Error: gem install data_fabric ERROR: Error installing data_fabric: data_fabric requires RubyGems version = 1.2 It is possible to get this error if you have upgraded to rubygems 1.3 and you are attempting to install data_fabric (version: 1.0.1 or below). If you…
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There are numerous applications that will allow you to connect to the serial port of a router, switch, load balancer, or other network device. I found the easiest application to use is the trusty old minicom. Minicom is very plain and has an easy configuration which is why I prefer it. The man page calls…
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ImageMagick is a really cool product. Not only is it open source but its very powerful tool. My goal was to figure out how to batch resize images while keeping one side 640 pixels wide. I ended up using ImageMagick’s mogrify by issuing the command below at my CentOS shell prompt. mogrify -resize x640 *.jpg…
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