This is a handy little command I found recently. I was testing something on my CentOS server and needed to look at a particular folder to wait for a file to appear. I quickly tired of typing ll over and over to see if the folder changed. After a little
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A Day in the Life of Small Business IT
8am – Look at scheduled tasks I have many repetitive tasks scheduled on the calendar in my business email. On a typical Monday morning usually a handful of tasks have become due. Most of these tasks don’t take much time and are related to maintenance chores, housekeeping, backups, etc. I
Continue readingConvert Network Solutions CSV Product Exports to WooCommerce CSV Imports
This post will eventually detail everything you need to do to export Network Solutions products into WooCommerce formats for importing. I wanted to start this post now even though it’s unfinished, so I can collect some feedback if this sort of thing is something more people are needing. There are
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Fix Yahoo Mail Missing Contact List
I’ve seen some posts online from people who claim to be missing their Yahoo mailing list tool. For some strange reason, Yahoo Mail collapses the contact list area, preventing you from creating a contact list, or group, or mailing list, or whatever you want to call it. When you have
Continue readingQuick Way to Find PHP’s Temp Folder
If you want to know what folder (in Linux), that PHP is using for temps, you can always check the php.ini. However, the setting for temp folder is often commented out, leaving the “system default” as the folder of choice. But what is that? One way is to just type
Continue readingMysqld.exe Process Taking Too Much RAM in WAMP?
If you find that mysqld.exe in Windows with WAMPSERVER is using a lot of RAM, this may help. I have WAMPSERVER 2.4 installed with MySQL 5.6.12 as you can see here: The mysqld.exe process is taking almost 500MB of RAM! This has to do with a high default
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Add Any Program to Explorer Right-Click Menu
This little trick can be found a thousand places online. I wanted to share it for my own safe-keeping.
Continue readingRepairing a Corrupt MYISAM Table with MySQL
It’s just one of those days! I began receiving emails like this: Database error in vBulletin myversion: Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO searchcore_text (searchcoreid, keywordtext) VALUES ( 1584876, ‘ SOME TEXT WAS HERE.’ ) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE searchcoreid = VALUES(searchcoreid), keywordtext = VALUES(keywordtext); MySQL Error : Table ‘./mydatabase/searchcore_text’ is marked
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Proper Social Network Graphic and Image Sizes
Every wonder the precise pixel dimensions of a Facebook banner or Youtube background? This infographic covers everything from Facebook profile and cover photo to app images, video previews, to Twitter profile picture to Youtube cover art. Graphic sizes in Linkedin, Pinterest, Google+ and more. Visit http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/social-media-image-dimensions_b44957 Save for
Continue readingUpdate Avast Internet Security 2014 and Can’t Access Network Shares
The latest update of Avast made a problem for me at work when it updated to the latest 2014 version. Suddenly networked computers were not able to communicate, could not ping them by IP or netBIOS name, host unreachable, timeouts etc. After spending a couple hours changing every setting I
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