Archive for the ‘servers’ Category

  • February 25, 2009
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    Gmail troubles? Calm down, have some dip.

    I heard lots of people complaining about recent Gmail issues over IMAP. I mostly use my gmail account as an archive, so all my emails end up in there. It works really well, for me at least. But there’s an issue today, where I can’t seem to move my messages into the All Mail (archive) [...]

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  • October 8, 2008

    What the hell is web site hosting, anyway?

    I answer this question quite often, also, so hopefully this article will help to clarify what website hosting is. Website hosting (aka hosting) is much different than a domain name, though they’re very closely related.

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  • October 7, 2008

    Find out which version of Apache is running on unix/*nix systems

    To find out which version of Apache you’re running on a *nix system, you can run the following command. This will only work if you have permission to run the script in the first place, so you should probably login as root or use sudo, if you can. If this isn’t possible, then you should [...]

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  • October 7, 2008
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    Project Pier upload error: Failed to create folder

    I’m evaluating a collaboration/project management web application called Project Pier. So far I like it, but I got a weird upload error when I was testing file uploads. The error read: 1Failed to create folder: /var/…xxxx.xxx/httpdocs/uploads/

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  • October 7, 2008

    What the hell is a domain name, anyway?

    A domain name is simply a name ending with a TLD. TLD stands for Top Level Domain. Some examples: stevejamesson.com irs.gov google.com abtech.edu cakephp.org The TLD is the .com, .org, .net, etc. portion of the domain name.

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  • October 4, 2008
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    Using Gmail IMAP with Apple/Mac Mail application (Mail.app)

    If you’re using Mac Mail and have a Gmail account, you should probably follow a few simples steps to get the Gmail account integrated into Mac Mail. This article will go through how to setup Gmail in Mac Mail as an IMAP account.

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  • October 1, 2008
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    Reset Mac OS X network configuration to factory default; Airport interface disappeared

    We used Apple’s Migration Assistant Application to migrate my brother’s files and user account and stuff over to a new machine. The new machine has airport. After the migration (and a few changes to our simple local home network), the Airport interface in System Preferences simply wasn’t there. Instead all we had was Ethernet 2. [...]

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  • September 30, 2008

    What the hell is a blog, anyway!?

    A client recently requested a quote for a new website. The site required at least five different sections, where the site owner would have the ability to administer the site. The proposal requester mentioned that maybe a blog would be sufficient for the first section. He also suggested that maybe a blog would be sufficient [...]

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