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I had problem with one of my sites. When testing on firefox, some banners did not load. My site was sponsored so I had sponsors banners on m...

To list all folders in a given path this can be used for f in ./* ; do if [ -d "$f" ]; then echo $f ; fi done; To list sizes of ...

A file from a server to the local computer rsync -v -e ssh W@server:~/some_file.tar.gz ~/local_dir A directory from a server to the local c...

I have installed VirtualBox 2.2.4 on a CentOS 5.3. As a guest OS I installed Ubuntu, and on that Ubuntu I made a LAMP server. So, what I wa...

Go to the conclusions if you have no time for BS. If you have time the details of my installation of VirtualBox 2.2.4 on CentOS 5.3 are belo...

There was no problems with the update. I just followed the instructions . Most importantly, after the update to CentOS 5.3, applications pre...

The error occurred when I was accessing a server (Arch linux) from a desktop (Mac X) using ssh -X username@serverip. In other words I wanted...

In my system (Arch Linux) after removing wine (sudo pacman -R wine), the Wine gnome menu was still in the Gnome Menus. To remove it, I had t...

I was debugging my script and I found that a number that starts from zero is different that the number without zero. This is because these n...

When I was installing Abacus 6.8 on CentOS 5.2 x86_64 I run into three problems. The first one was that installation script did not recogniz...