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One-stop Ruby on Rails packages

Programming and Web Development

You want Ruby on Rails, and you want it now. The trouble is, you don’t have Apache or MySQL on your home computer. You could install and configure those huge programs, but you’re not trying to turn your desktop into a full web server. You could put Ruby on Rai...

Rails
Ruby
easy
package

Google Guidelines for Webmasters

Internet and Web Browsers

Google offers tips and guidelines for webmasters and web developers in their Webmaster Help Center. Sitemaps, robots.txt, improving ranking, adding or removing sites from the index, etc.

search
administration
Google
HTML
www

How do I count the number of times a word or phrase occurs in a string?

Programming and Web Development

Assuming that you don’t have a built-in function that does this in one shot…Here is a trick for quickly (i.e. using minimal typing effort) counting the number of times a string occurs in a larger string:Below is some pseudocode for searching for a string calle...

shortcuts
algorithms
PostgreSQL
programming
SQL

How do I reset a user's password in Mac OS X?

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

If a user forgets their password in Mac OS X, you can use the install disc to reset ANY of the user account passwords.Boot from the install disc (or any install disc with a version higher than the installed OS X version) by having the disc in the drive and hol...

MAC
OS X
password
reset
user

My hard disk is dying! How do I make an emergency backup?

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

Disaster has struck and your hard disk is in its final death throes. No problem, you made a backup last night, right? Of course you did… but a pipe burst and you lost your backup tapes?Assuming that you’re trying to backup a UNIX or Linux system:(if it’s Windo...

back up
Linux
Unix

Security Testing your Apache Configuration with Nikto

Programming and Web Development

Is your Apache configuration secure? This is a helpful article to help you find out.http://www.howtoforge.org/apache_security_testing_with_nikto

Apache

My webserver has died! How do I bring it back online in a hurry?

Programming and Web Development

The obvious answer to this is to restore your backup onto a spare server. Or if it’s just a drive failure, the answer would be to restore your backup onto your spare drive. But since you’re reading this instead of restoring your backup, let’s assume that the s...

back up
debian
Linux
livecd
NFS
Ubuntu
webserver

How do I add or remove a page/website/etc from Google's index!

Internet and Web Browsers

add:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34397remove:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301

search
engine
Google
index
webmaster

Moving from Hummingbird v8 to V9? Got some errors?

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

Some errors have popped up when trying to access models once you upgraded to version 9 of Bi/Query Hummingbird.()()()()Upgraded from 8.x to version 9.0.1, and now when trying to connect to any model getting error: Connection Error – MS ODBC SQL Driver login ...

biquery
data
hummingbird
models
QDB

Dell Laptop Battery Recall

Printers, Monitors, and Other Hardware

If you have a Dell laptop model: Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810 Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705 Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90 XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M17...

battery
Dell

Is it possible to delete threads from the Lists Archives

MyUCLA and BOL

This was a question I post to Bruin Online Lists Admin.Here is the response:Unfortunately there is no way to delete threads in your mailing list archives. Is there a particular reason you want to do this?If all you want to do is prevent individuals from being ...

BOL
lists
archive

Does UCLA offer online sexual harassment training?

UCLA Resources

Yes!The UCLA Sexual Harassment Prevention Office offers online workshops. Please follow the link:Sexual Harassment TrainingThis is especially important if you are a supervisor. As a supervisor you must complete two hours of training every two years.

sexual harassment
training

Remove WinXP Printer Notifications

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Windows XP

See below if you’re tired of the pop-up balloon everytime you print. Remove WinXP Printer Notifications ** 1. Click on Start, select Run from the Start Menu.2. Type in “regedit”.3. Browse to the key HKCU\Printers\Settings and find the key “EnableBalloonNotif...

Windows XP
print

Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts

Cybersecurity

From the tutorial:“In this HowTo I will show how to install and configure DenyHosts. DenyHosts is a tool that observes login attempts to SSH, and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address, DenyHosts blocks further login attempt...

SSH
denyhosts

How to add new slots in Plone

Programming and Web Development Plone

This document describes how to add an additional portlet slot to the two that exist already (left and right).http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/add-slots

Plone

How to prevent "hotlinking" of your images on a web site

Programming and Web Development

From the tutorial:“Hotlinking” is a form of bandwidth theft. Basically, when creating a web page it is easy to link to a file (such as an image or a video) that exists on a remote (completely separate) site. Each time the web page is accessed, the file is retr...

hotlink

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

Programming and Web Development CSS and Web Design

By Jakob Nielsen:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html

web
design
Nielsen
usability

What is the Cisco VPN Client error message "Required VPN subsystem not available"

Internet and Web Browsers VPNs

When starting up the VPN client software, I get the following error message: “Required VPN subsystem not available”. Why?There are several possible reasons why this happened; most likely tied to the Cisco VPN Service. A lot of times I’ve seen this happen beca...

error
VPN