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Omniweb Blocks All “.in” Email

Due to a steady stream of spam and a complete lack of legitimate Email from domains ending with “.in”, Omniweb, Inc. has made the decision to reject all Email ending with “.in”. We apologize to our legitimate users in the … Continue reading

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And another one bites the dust…

Nothing like announcing the news (to my inbox, at least) at 4:50 PM on Friday. Today I read that Imo will “start discontinuing” the fantastic free service I’ve come to rely on, on Monday. To provide the best and most … Continue reading

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Steps to fail over Mysql and maintain replication

1. on all replicating slaves issue: STOP SLAVE; 2. on the slave that will be master there should be no binary logs floating around. issue: RESET MASTER; 3. change the ip address of the new master to that of the … Continue reading

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ESXi 5.5 Error: vSphere Client could not connect

Can’t connect to one virtual host with vsphere, but the others are working from the same client. vSphere Client could not connect to “192.168.1.100”. An unknown connection error occurred. (The client could not send a complete request to the server. … Continue reading

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Samba: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

It’s been a while since I set up samba. I just put it on Ubuntu 12 and saw the subject error when testing with smbclient. Turns out I just need to set the password with smbpasswd, then samba works. easy … Continue reading

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php_pdo_mysql_int.h:31:20: fatal error: mysql.h: No such file or directory

While trying to compile PHP 5.5 with pdo support on Ubuntu 12 with the intention of trying out this Medoo framework, I was seeing the subject error. In the PHP installation folder, I edited the file ext/pdo_mysql/php_pdo_mysql_int.h and I changed … Continue reading

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csrow value is out of range

After a brief power failure, was seeing messages including this error csrow value is out of range on screen over and over. Searched around and found that it’s caused by bad memory. Luckily there were 4 sticks in there and … Continue reading

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Change outgoing ip address for sendmail in linux

Found out how to do this by reading this blog here Follow the steps below, if you want to change the source SMTP ip address in sendmail. 1) change the line below in sendmail.cf #O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=x.x.x.x to O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, … Continue reading

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Changing Proudly Powered by WordPress to something else

This question comes up a lot and there are a lot of answers out there. I wanted to note how I’m currently handling this, mainly since it gets undone when updating a standard included theme. Go to the current theme’s … Continue reading

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Changing the WordPress Address and Site Address URL settings in the database

Sometimes when moving a wordpress site around, I mess up one of the settings and get locked out. The wordpress login page is not letting me in, or not showing up at all! Brief moment of panic ensues. To fix … Continue reading

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