I have been using the Amazon Machine Tags WordPress plugin on numerous sites for a long time and have been happy with the results up until the last couple of months. I believe that Amazon has made some changes to their API over the last year or so and it has caused a lot of…
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It can be useful on a Linux server to sort all of the files in a directory by date. Sometimes you may want to backup files older than a certain date or you may just want to see what is in a directory and what date those files were created. Use the information below to…
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I travel a lot and I have noticed that the timezone on my mac book wasn’t updating properly. I was getting lots of wrong meeting times in Outlook and various other apps that depend on time. I was getting pretty annoyed at this and decided to figure out what was up. I was pretty sure this was…
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A friend asked me to look at their computer today because they were receiving some warning messages regarding anti-virus software. Upon inspection I noticed that he had Microsoft Security Essentials, which is what I recommended, installed as well as the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. This was a Windows XP machine so I initially went to the…
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In my previous article I was building SIPcrack from source on the Ubuntu 10.04 platform. I ran into a few erros during the build. The first error is explained here but after that I ran into one more. Below I describe how to get past the pcap.h error. This fix should work on any version…
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I was building a tool called Sipcrack today from source and ran into some problems. The platform I was using was ubuntu 10.04 LTS but if you are getting this error on any Ubuntu platform the solution is most likely going to be the same.
I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 awhile back on the site where the below issue was noticed and in fact am running WordPress 3.1 on the site now. Today when attempting to block a new page from showing in the navigation bar via the Mandigo theme Theme Options screen I received an error complaining about permissions.…
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Typically I will use the WordPress Lightbox 2 plugin to provide a format for images within posts on a WordPress site. Basically this plugin provides an ajax window that images open in and you can scroll between the images with mini arrows to the left and the right side or you can close the image…
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If you performed a default install of ModSecurity but never modified the configuration or completed any other steps the chances are that you are not logging any ModSecurity items. Typically you just need to add a directory structure with the proper permissions and then ModSecurity will do the rest as far as generating the files…
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