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How To Remove Roles After An Exchange Server Re-install Or Dead Exchange Server

Last Updated on February 18, 2009 EST by Jordan I had run into a little bit of an issue when install Exchange 2007, which lead me to revert my VMWare ESXi Snapshot back to a later date. Once I did this, I had a fresh install of the same PC. When I tried to install …
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HowTo Clone a Virtual Machine On VMWare’s free ESXi

Last Updated on February 17, 2009 EST by admin You will require SSH access to your Virtual Machine, read over my article Gaining SSH Access To VMWare ESXi which provides the steps required to gain SSH access. Once you have SSH access, you just need to create a Virtual Machine Directory in your DataStore which …
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Gaining SSH Access To VMWare ESXi

Last Updated on November 10, 2011 EST by Jordan *UPDATE* If you’re using ESXi 4.1 you no longer are required to manually enable SSH. You can do this via the “Troubleshooting” menu. More instructions here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1017910 I was trying to get access to VMWare ESXi as this is the only way to access the images for …
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Drupal to WordPress Migration

Last Updated on February 6, 2009 EST by Jordan So you might have noticed that my last post about this topic was removed. I had some issues with the migration that I’ve now fixed. Specifically if you’re migrating Drupal to WordPress and have the URL Aliases module setup with Drupal. You will run into issues …
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Fastcgi and the dreaded aborted: select() failed

I was getting reports of “500 Internal Server Errors” on two of my web servers. And after further investigation it looks like it was related to the following error.

(4)Interrupted system call: FastCGI: comm with server “php-fastcgi.fcgi” aborted: select() failed

After doing some reasearch I stumbled upon the following patch.

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/3de22bc415d3da02?pli=1

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lighttpd won’t start and doesn’t output or log any error message

I was working on a server and for some reason lighttpd wouldn’t start for some odd reason. Running it via Debian/Ubuntu “invoke-rc.d lighttpd start” or “/etc/init.d/lighttpd start” wouldn’t reveal an error message or anything in the log.

I hop’d on irc.freenode.net and put some information about my problem in the channel #lighttpd channel.

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Apache2 Directory Listing Doesn’t List Password Protected Folders

If you’ve ever used Apache2 and .htaccess with the “Options Indexes” value to show the content listing of a directory. You would know that unfortunately Apache2 doesn’t show folders that are forbidden or password protected.

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Use Your Video Card To Crack Secured Wireless AP’s

It looks as though a company called “Elcomsoft” is using NVIDIA developer tools to create software that cracks Secured Wireless AP’s.

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Firefox Minefield Faster than Chrome

I’ve tried out the nightly snapshots of Firefox Minefield and yes, it is faster than Chrome even with my 12+ plugins. http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/28/firefox-minefield-faster-than-chrome/
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vBulletin Big Board Linux Server Optimization Part 1

Hello, I’m just going to explain my experience with a vBulletin Big Board and how to get the most out of your hardware by simple tweaks and changes to the software that your site runs. I will break this article down into sections. What is a big board?
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