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Missing access.log in lighttpd

I’ll make this one short: A few days ago i got Lighttpd up and running and even moved my WordPress blog onto it. This was a nice clean install that is working properly, starting properly. There seems to be something missing! Oh! yeah! Where is my access.log. I attempt to tail -f /var/log/lighttpd/access.log and there was nothing there. This took me […]

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Boot a VMware Virtual Machine from a USB Drive

This has been one of the features that never seem to have made it to VMware products such as Player and Workstation; The ability to boot from USB. Well with some 3rd party magic this is possible Using Plop Boot Manager all you need to do is boot from the provided floppy image or CD […]

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How-To Software Technical

Release DHCP lease on Verizon FiOS

Do you have a need to release your FiOS IP Address for a new one? There are those times where you just wanted to move to another address. I find myself doing this from time to time. Below you will find some steps to do this and avoid calling the FiOS Support Center to do […]

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How To Find Your Logon Server – Active Directory

To check the local domain controller for a computer or server simply type the following in the command prompt: echo %logonserver% What this does is print the value of the environment variable giving you the machine name of the domain controller being used.  

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Vyatta Router Configuration Location

Some of us may have looked for this, most of us have found it. Simply change directory to /opt/vyatta/etc/config to find the Vyatta router config.boot  

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sending sms, mms, txt messages to phones with email

  Most, if not all mobile carries have “SMS Gateways” that an take in an email message and deliver them to their customer as text messages. This works also with mms messages. That seems simple, doesn’t it!  It is if you know the carrier the recipient’s phone is on, along with their phone number.  Below are a few […]