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My new MacBook OR How to manually eject a CD from your MacBook Pro

I just bought my first Mac. It’s a 2.33 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro 15inch model. It has taken me a little bit of time to get use to, but I’m starting to get the hang of it after I plugged in my...

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I’m crushing over Drobo!

I’m in love with Data Robotics, Inc. no hassle data redundancy device, Drobo. I’ve been kicking around the idea of building my own RAID 5 network file server to store all of my music, videos, pics, and...

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A Windows Genuine False Positive!

So this evening my $300 genuine copy of Windows Vista Business decided it was no longer genuine. But my favorite part is I have lots of work due in the next few days and I’m paid by the hour. That...

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How to delete an entire directory via SSH

I know this is probably common knowledge to Linux and Unix geeks. But every time I need to remove a directory with files in my NearlyFreeSpeech.Net SSH terminal I end up having to google for the...

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Why is "Content-type: text/html" displayed at the top of my CGI pages?

Recently one of my clients was having some issues with a CGI script they purchased. They’re running IIS on all of their servers, and oddly, this purchased script worked on one of their servers but not...

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How to increase or decrease your Boot Camp partition

If you’re running Mac OS X and Boot Camp you may need to increase or decrease the size of your Microsoft Windows Boot Camp partition, depending on what great videos games are out for Windows at the...

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How to Update Ubuntu Hardy to PHP 5.2.9

First upgrade your software as is. >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get upgrade Then add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. >> sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list deb...

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Installing Cassandra on Ubuntu Linux

Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. It’s an alternative to SQL if you don’t need relational data structures. The best part is it’s super...

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Downgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.2

Like many others, I recently upgraded my Production server to PHP 5.3. I’m not quite sure of the reason anymore. I think I was trying to integrate a PHP profiler that required something in 5.3....

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Map the Apple key to Ctrl in Windows Boot Camp

Heavy computer users are familiar with keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl-c to “copy” and ctrl-v to “paste.” If you’re a Mac user and you switch back and forth from Windows to OS X often you’ve probably...

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