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Java JDK Installation Error on Redhat: bad ELF interpreter

The fix for me was  to use the 64bit version of the JDK installer. You can determine if you are on 32bit or 64bit by running…

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Maxtor OneTouch 4 USB Device Not Recognized

Windows XP keeps throwing a “USB Device not recognized” error when you plug in your Maxtor Onetouch External USB Drive…

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How to install mod_fastcgi on Ubuntu “Lucid” 10.04 LTS

How to install mod_fastcgi on Ubuntu “Lucid” 10.04 LTS

When you attempt to install mod_fastcgi for apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 using “apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi” you recieve the Error “E: Package libapache2-mod-fastcgi has no installation candidate.”

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Change user password within bash script  on Ubuntu/Debian

Change user password within bash script on Ubuntu/Debian

I tried many different methods to no avail;  The only solution that worked for me was piping username:password into chpasswd…

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.docx file giving HTTP Error 404 within IIS6 website

When you request a file with .docx extension from an application served from IIS 6.0, you receive the following error message “HTTP Error 404 – File or directory not found”, even though the file is there & permissions are correctly set…

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Cannot connect to FTP – CentOS Godaddy using Simple Control Panel

You are setup with CentOS through GoDaddy, and are trying to FTP into the server. You have ensured that “Enable Server” is checked beneath
System Configuration > FTP within your “Simple Control Panel”.  You have verified you can SSH to the servers IP Address (elminates DNS Issues) but still cannot connect via FTP, here is why…

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Redirection Plugin – Regular Expression Examples from a Movable Type to WordPress Migration

Redirection Plugin – Regular Expression Examples from a Movable Type to WordPress Migration

Within a few days of migrating a Movable Type blog to Wordpress we had thousands of 404 errors with users still hitting our old MT Search Engine, the Redirection plugin logged all of them. We then created several rules to forward the old search traffic to the new wordpress search…

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How to backup Rackspace Cloudsites Automatically, Incrementally, using Free Software

Cloudsites recommends creating scheduled Cron jobs for backups if they need to be automated, and does facilitate this need in the manage.rackspacecloud.com control panel. Rackspace unfortunately does not provide sufficient documentation to accomplish this; If you’re not a proficient Unix Admin this is a tough route to take. Consider using an FTP based backup, read more to find out how…

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Windows Dedicated Servers – Choosing the Right Hosting Company

My experience with dedicated servers dates back to 2003 when I started working with USC at LA County Hospital. We decided to shell out for an off-site dedicated server because we had no control over the hospitals firewall, DNS, or routing. We just had our little LAN on the inside which made simple firewall adjustments a nightmare…

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Monthly Archives do not work in Movable type 4.33

If you upgrade to version 4.33 of Movable type, your Monthly Archives will not work. (as of now — Jan, 20th, 2010)…

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