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How to Assign An Elastic IP To an EC2 Instance On AWS 25 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
An elastic IP is a static IP address that is used with EC2 instances. Instead of getting a public DNS name like ec2-xxx-34-xxx-49.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com which changes every time you restart ...
Yum Update Error “PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 404″ 8 Jun 2013 | 02:53 am
If you get the following errors when running yum update: try to do:
Crucial m4 256GB (CT256M4SSD2) Firmware Upgrade Issues Going From 000f to 010G On UEFI Bios and “SSD Power Cycle” 6 Oct 2012 | 03:04 am
I recently tried to upgrade my Crucial m4 256GB (CT256M4SSD2) from firmware version 000f (which came pre-flashed on my drive) to 010G which was offered on the Crucial site here: http://forum.crucial....
Windows 7 Does Not Recognize SSD or Hard Disk Drive During Install 29 Sep 2012 | 02:44 am
I recently had the issue when upgrading my Lenovo W520 where the Windows 7 installer was not able to recognize the SanDisk Extreme SDSSDX-120G-G25 SSD drive i was trying to install. It would boot no...
How To Fix Problems Installing vSphere Update Manager 1 Jul 2012 | 06:24 am
I recently had an issue with installing vSphere Update Manager where i was getting an error and it wouldn’t install. Looking closer at the log files i had the following message: System.Net.Sockets.S...
What Is Included In A Minimal Install Of CentOS 6.2 25 Feb 2012 | 08:14 pm
Here is what is included in the minimal CentOS 6 install (taken from here): http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSMinimalCD6.0 aic94xx-firmware bfa-firmware ql2100-firmware ql2200-fir...
Adding a GUI Desktop Environment (Gnome) To A CentOS 6 Minimal Install Using Yum Groupinstall 25 Feb 2012 | 02:41 pm
If you do your initial Centos 6 install using “minimal install” from the full DVD or you use CentOS-6.0 minimal.iso you won’t have a desktop environment or other packages. Thankfully the minimal inst...
Fixing the Mystique Social Media Icons – Enable GD in PHP using cpanel’s EasyApache 21 Feb 2012 | 07:54 am
When installing the Mystique WP theme for this website, one of the cool features was the social media icons at the top of the page. If you hover over them they have a cool pop-up animation and link y...
How to install CentOS 6 using remote install over the internet – aka Net Install 20 Feb 2012 | 02:17 pm
If you want to install CentOS 6 using remote install there are few easy steps. First you need the CentOS 6 net install CentOS-6.2-x86_64-netinstall.iso which is about 227 mb. You can get it here: ht...
Cleaning up wp_statpress 19 Feb 2012 | 01:50 pm
I noticed the MYSQL table wp_statpress was full of records even though i had disabled the plugin quite some time ago. To fix this problem i re-enabled the plugin; changed the options to reduce the it...
