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My network is sluggish. What's going on? 08 Nov 2007
Lots of reasons for this. If it's just not working, look at the cable and the hub/router/switches. The most common and often overlooked reason for slow
How do I create custom error pages in Tomcat? 06 Nov 2007
You create the error page first and then link to it in your web.xml file for your context. For instance: error_401.jsp inside your root web directory.
I had a problem after upgrading a computer from Windows 2000 to XP Professional. The update worked but automatic updates didn't work after that. They kept failing. There
Software RAID on Fedora and Centos 07 Oct 2007
One of the things I never can remember is how to set up a software raid on the Fedora/Centos visual installer. Basically you need to remember that RAID
Manifests and Visual C++ runtimes 07 Oct 2007
New runtime dlls for MSVC need to be shipped with a manifest file. This basically a security precaution so a malicious program can't run a false copy of
Tomcat UTF8 URLS 27 Jul 2007
If you want to use UTF-8 URLS in Tomcat, remember to put in your connector in server.xml URIEncoding="UTF-8".
DirectoryIndex on Apache. I wanted to set my site up so index.php becomes the default page for a site instead of index.html. As is often with Apache,
ld versus gcc 13 Jun 2007
I was having a problem with a Makefile in Linux. I had a line something like: ld filelist to link a shared library. I would get all sorts of
QB 2006 Reinstallation 13 Jun 2007
Someone asked me to fix her QuickBooks 2006 installation. Apparently it suddenly stopped working. In my experience this is very common for QuickBooks, sudden, inexplicable installation problem. One thing
Calling Open Office from C++ on Windows 31 May 2007
Calling Open Office from C++ on Windows. I want to be able to do this to let my app users view tabular data in a spreadsheet format. I export
MYSQL privileges 23 May 2007
Some miscellaneous privilege commands. These are useful for diagnosing privilege problems on mysql. mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'user'@'192.168.1.123'; mysql> flush privileges; You can
Code for Screen Capture with wxWidgets 09 May 2007
This is a weird sort of mixture. It uses both native Windows code as well as wxWidgets code. If anybody knows if there's a wxWidgets equivalent to GetDesktopWindow,
Open Office Page Numbers 23 Apr 2007
Suppose you want to suppress page numbers on the first two pages in an Open Office writer document. You do this with styles. Styles control lots of things like
Virtual Domain Permissions on Apache 28 Feb 2007
Apache appears to be very picky about the permissions used to serve content on virtual domains. You need to make the directory searchable which is is chmod o+x
MSVC lib file from .def file 28 Feb 2007
Sometimes you need a .lib file and all you have is a list of function names (.def). You can do this using the lib.exe utility that comes with