I was playing around with a Linux distro (Backtrack 4) on my netbook and accidently overwrote the Windows boot loader with the GRUB boot loader. My workstation would not boot anymore but I knew everything was still in place. All I had to do was restore the Windows boot loader. To do this, you will
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I ran into an issue where I replaced a network card in a computer and the Ubuntu installation would not display the new network card when running the command ‘ifconfig’. Running ifconfig would only display the loopback interface ‘lo’. I found that the network card had been recognized by Ubuntu but that my interface configuration
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I recently ran into a problem mounting a remote share to my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 installation. I had never had a problem before so I knew my mount script was correct. I found an easy fix to allow a regular user to mount a remote share. I had already prepared a folder to mount
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I recently ran into a problem with my WordPress installations. I could not auto update my plugins. After some research, I found that it was a problem with the hosting server having php4 and php5 enabled at the same time. This is common practice for shared hosting plans. I found that adding the following
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This is a short video tutorial on how to configure an iTunes/DAAP server on your FreeNAS server. This tutorial assumes that you have following the “Installing FreeNAS” tutorial that is also available in the tutorials section of this site. This tutorial slightly touches on creating simple playlists on the server to make them available to all users.
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I ran into a problem on a particular computer where FreeNAS did not like how the bios was reporting the temperature. FreeNAS would constantly prompt that the temperature was “absurd”. I found that booting to option two from the boot menu, disabled ACPI, would fix the problem. The next problem was locating the file which
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