I installed ISPConfig awhile back on a web hosting server that at one point also hosted email accounts. I recently moved all of the email to a different server and wanted to cut down on CPU and memory usage so I needed to disable amavisd, clamd, courier-imap, and courier-authlib. These services provided a way to…
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I recently was installing Django for a test project and needed to upgrade Python on a CentOS server to 2.6. The current revisions available via yum on CentOS are 2.4. The yum package manager requires Python 2.4 still to function properly so upgrading Python to 2.6 manually will break the CentOS yum package manager. After…
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A couple days ago I was printing a bunch of pictures from my laptop to my HP Photosmart 5100c for my father in-law. At one point I had run out of paper and other point had some other minor problem with the printer. After awhile I noticed that my computers CPU appeared to be fairly…
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I have used the NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin on a bunch of different projects and have always been satisfied with the functionality. On a recent WordPress project I was working on I installed NextGen Gallery assuming I would use it however after I got a bit further on the project I decided it wasn’t necessary…
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Alex and I are going to start a series on basic Linux shell commands and all the neat things you can do from the terminal. In my opinion there is a shortage of these type of articles on the internet. We are going to try to cover most every basic task and show how it…
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If you are using Backtrack Linux for your wireless Pentesting needs you will not need this how to, however, if you are using another distro or a older version of cowpatty you will have this issue.
The other day I did some optimization work on a PostgreSQL database and at the end needed to create migrations so the changes I was going to make could be deployed on multiple servers. It was my first shot at migrations so I wanted to note for myself and anyone else that may find it…
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I received an error when configuring a Django run site for the first time. The setup included installing and configuring some items I am not so familiar with such as mod_python, Django, and other Python items. I finally started making some progress and when I initially launched a test site I received the below errors…
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I received the error below when attempting to use easy_install to add the html5lib package on a server for a client. I assumed all of the necessary python packages were installed since easy_install was already available via python-setuptools-devel. After a quick investigation I noticed that the python-devel package was not installed. This can easily be…
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