Howto: Install Windows 7 with USB Stick
I just tried out Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool and it worked really well! Details: The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a…
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HowTo: Harden Bitnami WampStack WordPress Install
Hardening your Windows Bitnami WampStack WordPress Install: By default apache runs under an account with read/write to your entire machine, let’s fix that! CREATING USERS 1. Create two new local users named apache and filezilla. 2. Add filezilla to the…
Howto: Fix WP Super Cache Manager Cache Directory Writable Error
Receiving an error like this? WP Super Cache Manager Error: Your cache directory (C:\Program Files\BitNami WAMPStack\apps\wordpress\htdocs/wp-content/cache/) or C:\Program Files\BitNami WAMPStack\apps\wordpress\htdocs/wp-content need to be writable for this plugin to work. Double-check it. Cannot continue… fix previous problems To Fix: 1. Click…
Howto: Restart a Windows Computer Remotely or Via RDP
To restart a machine remotely use the following (from command prompt): shutdown /m \\computer -f -r -t 1 To restart if you are already RDP’d in to the machine (from command prompt): shutdown /f /r /t 1
Freeware: TrueCrypt Hard Disk Encryption
TrueCrypt is by far my favorite hard disk encryption program. It works on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. and is open source. Main Features: Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire…
Tools: Fport Process to Port Mapper
Fport is a very handy tool to determine which ports are mapped to which process. You can download it here From Foundstone (creators of tool): “fport reports all open TCP/IP and UDP ports and maps them to the owning application.…
Receiving LOG DISABLE SBE error PowerEdge 2650
The description of error LOG DISABLE SBE on a PowerEdge 2650 refers to “Multiple single-bit errors on a single memory module.”(source poweredge 2650 error codes) To figure out which DIMM is having the issues you must open up your Dell OpenManage Server…
HowTo: Fix Permalinks in WordPress
I totally busted my permalinks… but just fixed it..so I thought i’d share the wealth… Edit your wordpress.conf and ensure these lines are there Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride FileInfo Example of an httpd.conf using bitnami stack in windows server…
Howto: Change siteid of website in IIS 6.0
The easiest way to change the IIS site id is to create a .bat file like this: (Assuming that 1135282223 was the id of your current site and 5 was the ID you’d like to have) CSCRIPT %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs STOP_SERVER W3SVC/1135282223…
HowTo: Fix Event Log Error “service account does not have the necessary user right “Log on as a service.”
In this case my error looked something like: “The Tomcat6 service was unable to log on…” This service account does not have the necessary user right “Log on as a service.” Because I was running Tomcat6 on an active directory…