How to install WGET on Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

WGET is a reliable download utility for UNIX and Linux. I have found it to be more reliable to Continue Reading

Windows XP comes with Windows Messenger, the integrated version of what’s known as MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger. If you’ve ever tried to uninstall it, or delete it’s folder, you’ve noticed that it magically reappears and will not stay gone.

There is a way to remove it for good. Here’s the instructions to do this very simply in under 30 seconds.

Go to your Start Menu, Start, and then Run and then type in:
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Windows Seven contains a few “Easter eggs” or features for-the-finding. One of these, has been nicknamed “God Mode”, an uber-elite combination of the control panel, system manager, and other assorted control panels, combined to form an AIO (all-in-one) master control panel.

The benefits and applications of such an uber-elite control panel, to any IT savvy computer user, systems administrator, or technician are limitless; Easier and more direct access to troubleshooting and diagnosing system issues, system maintenance, LDAP and domain client-side configuration, etc.

To activate the “God Mode” control panel, we need to create a folder with the specific system registry trigger, included in the folder name. This quick visual guide will cover how to do this in under two minutes. Continue Reading

If you use Tarball or Gzip file archives for storing your data, occasionally you may need to extract only a few select files or directories, rather than the entire archive file’s contents. Many people waste time, CPU, and drive space extracting the entire archive only to get access to a few of the contents, then to discard the rest of the data.

Why should one wait on files to extract that will just be deleted immediately after, without being used? Thanks to the great minds behind the tar application for Unix and Linux; we have been privileged with a solution. A little-known time saving tip is that extracting only specified directories or files from a tar gzip file is possible. Continue Reading

Changes to Apache web server’s configuration typically warrant a necessary immediate restart of the Apache. This is necessary in order for the new configuration changes to take effect due to the way Apace loads configuration settings at start-up.

Examples of changes which would warrant a restart in order to take immediate effect would be changing (adding or removing) an IP address, modifying the maximum connections limit, installing or uninstalling module files, changing virtual host configurations, and the list goes on, etc.

What is a Graceful Restart, and Why Bother Restarting Apache Gracefully?

Chances are you are already aware that the above situations would require a restart of Apache. The question that needs to be answered is “Why restart with the graceful command rather than the standard restart command. Continue Reading