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OSX Lion: Postgres could not connect to database postgres (after homebrew installation)

by on October 12, 2011 in SOLUTIONS

Problem: createuser: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket “/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432″? Solution: I tried many solutions found across the interwebs to no avail. The problem seems quite common, for me the fix was: Make sure [...]

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Tutorial: How to setup a Dedicated Left 4 Dead 2 (L4d2) server on Linux (CentOS 5.6)

by on October 9, 2011 in TUTORIALS

Most of the tutorials out there are dated or missing fixes that required time and effort to search and resolve. I am throwing this together as I go through the installation in the hopes it saves someone else some time. As always feel free to comment for help. I’ve run valve based servers on/off for about [...]

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Tutorial: Install WordPress on an Ubuntu 10.04 Cloud Server (NGINX, MySQL, PHP 5.3 with php-fpm, APC)

by on April 24, 2011 in TUTORIALS

This tutorial takes you step by step through the installation of NGINX, MySQL, PHP 5.3, php-fpm, APC (Opcode cache) and WordPress on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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Dell U2711: Text is blurry at full/native resolution

by on April 21, 2011 in SOLUTIONS

Problem: Text/image appears blurry & choppy when you run your U2711 at full/native resolution (2560 x 1440).

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configure: error: Could not find libevent >= 1.4.11 when running ./configure PHP 5.33

by on November 8, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

When running ./configure to install PHP 5.33 from source receive this error:
checking for libevent >= 1.4.11 install prefix…
configure: error: Could not find libevent >= 1.4.11
The solution for me was to install libevent from source, heres how…

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Tutorial: How to install Atlassian JIRA 4 Standalone on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

by on August 28, 2010 in TUTORIALS

This tutorial is broken into 2 parts and will walk you through the installation of JIRA on a new Redhat based server . JIRA Is an application written entirely in JAVA, thus step one is to install java’s JDK…

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Mailman: Archives not working “No messages have been posted to this list yet, so the archives are currently empty.”

by on August 24, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

After installing mailman and posting a few messages to one of your lists, the messages do not show up in the list archives.

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Java JDK Installation Error on Redhat: bad ELF interpreter

by on July 29, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

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

by on July 16, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

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

by on July 12, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

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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