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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I saw these errors after a fresh install of CentOS 5.2 during the process of preparing the server for ISPConfig. If you try to enable quotas after getting this error then quotaon will simply explain it cannot find the files like the below.
081004 2:35:11 [ERROR] Could not use /var/log/mysql-err.log for logging (error 13). Turning logging off for the whole duration of the MySQL server process. To turn it on again: fix the cause, shutdown the MySQL server and restart it. The above error displayed in the mysqld.log file fter adding the below line to /etc/my.cnf under [mysqld]. log=/var/log/mysql.log…
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It is easy to set photo album names on the iPod Touch. Just name the folder on your local computer the name you want to appear on the Touch. Click on the under the devices menu in iTunes, then click on the Photos tab, and check the new folder you want to sync to the…
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Setting a personal image as the background for your iPod Touch is easy. Follow the instructions below. First you have to sync personal images from iTunes to your Touch. Start iTunes: Open up the iTunes application Attach the Touch: Plug your Touch into the computer using the USB cable Highlight Touch: Click on your iPod…
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Its really easy to make applications run when Windows Vista starts up. J 1. Open All Programs: Click Start > All Programs 2. Open Startup: Right Click Startup, Click Explore 3. Find Program: Click Start, Locate the Program To Run 4. Drag Program: Highlight the App you Want to Run, Drag it into the Startup…
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It took me a minute to figure out how to use the right mouse button with the QwasiPad application on my iPod Touch. All you have to do is tap the screen with two fingers. It works really well every time. QwasiPad is an application I installed on my iPod Touch to act as a wireless keyboard…
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Its fairly easy to get away from your computer these days without really having to worry about a server you are supposed to monitor dropping and being stuck in traffic trying to get back to the house to resolve the issue. Now you can do all of your initial troubleshooting on the way home and…
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