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Sometimes after inserting a new SSD ExpressCard device into your Vista computer for the first time you may see the following message under the device’s “ReadyBoost” tab: “Device interface is not supported”. Do the following to enable ReadyBoost for the device (assuming the device is ReadyBoost compatible): Start up the “Disk Management” manager under: Right-click [...]
If you notice Sendmail hanging up for many minutes while starting up at boot or while being used such as sending an email from a PHP script, it is probably a DNS lookup problem. Ensure your /etc/hosts file has the appropriate entries for your server that sendmail is running on: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.1.80 www.foo.com [...]
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16 Feb 2009If you try to backup a MySQL database with a lot of tables using mysqldump, you may get an error similar to the following: mysqldump: Got error: 29: File ‘./test/test.MYD’ not found (Errcode: 24) when using LOCK TABLES To fix the problem you can add the –skip-lock-tables option to your mysqldump command line like so: [...]
Most of the instructions for mirroring a directory with Rsync involve mirroring the data to a different server. You can also use Rsync to sync or mirror a directory on the same computer as the source directory. Here is an example command on how to mirror two directories locally. In this example, /home/apache/public_html is the [...]
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.