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Change user file permissions when moving windows disk to new machine

Set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and folders Important: If you are not joined to a domain and you want to view the Security tab: 1. <td class="text"> Click <b>Start</b>, and then click <b>Control Panel</b>.

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Dell 5150 Wireless under CentOS 4.0

Download ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Install make make install lspci lspci -n Identify and download Windows Driver. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List # Laptop: Dell Inspiron 5100 Card: Wireless 1350 (802.11b/g) WLAN miniPCI Card

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Dell 5150 64MB DDR nVidia Corporation GeForce FX Go 5200 under CentOS 4.0

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/README.txt Directly following the Fedora Core 3 installation I had to get the video to work. Therefore, at boot time, I went into the grub config file by pressing “e”

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Web Site Log Analysis options

Analog www.analog.cx Report Magic for Analog www.reportmagic.org WebStats for Analog & Report Magic patsplanet.com/software/webstats AWStats awstats.sourceforge.net Webalizer www.mrunix.net/webalizer wwwstats http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/ WUsage www.boutell.com/wusage/ (Free Trial, has cost)

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Changing IE spinning logo and title

This tweak will change the animated bitmap image that displays when IE (or Outlook Express) is busy. This tweak also removes or changes the branding string added to the window title ( Figure 2 ).

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Ripping CD’s to MP3 (on Windows)

For use on Windows platforms I use Free MP3 Rip from mgshareware.com. My Settings are: In CD | Options menu option on the General Tab, select Default Encoding Format MP3.

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HTML (ampersand) Character Codes

· (·) Middle Dot • (•) Bullet, black small circle « («) Left-pointing double angle quotation mark » (») Right-pointing double angle quotation mark

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Development Software Suite As At 26 June 2004

Java J2SDK 1.4.2_4 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html Tomcat 5.0.25 http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi JSTL 1.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html MySQL 5.0.20 http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html Apache HTTP 2.0.49 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi PHP 4.3.7 http://www.php.net/downloads.php PHPMyAdmin 2.5.7 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Eclipse 3.0 http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php Eclipse 3.0 was released today.

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Adding a second IP address to Linux Server

If say you want to run apache and tomcat both on port 80 (default), you can create a seperate IP address on an internal network. For RedHat Distros $ cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

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CentOS 3.x YUM Errors

When getting an error stating the PGP key is not correct rpm –import http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 The PGP Key is also reportedly on each CD. More info at http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29

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Changing A Server’s Timezone

For RedHat 9 $ redhat-config-date (except this requires X) or $ clock $ rm /etc/localtime $ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime $ /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov $ /sbin/hwclock –systohc The last two commands can be added to cron for regular syncing with running ntp

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