Category Archives: SysAdmin

Using MySQL Administrator Over a Secure (ssh) Connection

Posted on January 20, 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

MySQL Administrator is not designed to work over a secure connection like ssh. By using ssh tunneling, you can connect to your remote MySQL servers from your workstation. MySQL Tools Download the MySQL Tools package. Install the MySQL Tools package. … Continue reading →

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WordPress TV

Posted on January 17, 2009 by System Administrator

WordPress has unleashed its video tutorial site, WordPress.tv. You can find all kinds of helpful videos from basic tutorials to WordCamp conference sessions.

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New Look

Posted on January 16, 2009 by System Administrator

The site is sporting a new look. I hope it’s also easier for people to use.

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Fix for “Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! error” in WP-Postviews

Posted on January 15, 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

I installed the WP-Postview plugin for WordPress. Everything was fine until it encountered Japanese. Then it barfed repeatedly with “Warning: Cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!”. To work around this problem, I found some great notes on SearchMarked.com. Edit the … Continue reading →

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Configuring Apache for WordPress

Posted on January 14, 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

What the Apache config file needs to server up WordPress blogs. Continue reading →

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Upgrading Subversion on OS X

Posted on January 12, 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

The default Subversion on the Mac is 1.4. How to upgrade to 1.5. Continue reading →

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Installing PowerDNS

Posted on January 5, 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

There are notes on installing PowerDNS on a CentOS 5 server. This is generic enough that it aught to work on any RPM based Linux distro with yum installed. Continue reading →

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Upgrading Zimbra 4.5.10 to 5.0.11

Posted on January 3, 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

There are my running notes for upgrading a Zimbra 4.5.10 server to the latest Zimbra 5.0.11. Continue reading →

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Workaround for FreeMind OutOfMemory Exception (Mac OS X)

Posted on December 15, 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

FreeMind on OS X has not been working. Rather, it’s been giving me an out of memory exception. Here is a workaround. Continue reading →

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Zimbra Start Error: slapd daemon: bind(7) failed errno=99 (Cannot assign requested address)

Posted on December 12, 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

You may encounter slapd error 99 when trying to start a Zimbra server after moving the machine to a new IP address. Continue reading →

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