If you liked using WinMTR on Windows machines to troubleshoot network connections and latency and looking for a similar tool on a Mac OS X there is an app for that. It’s called MTR, written by Matt Kimball. MTR stands for Matt TraceRoute or My TraceRoute whichever works for you. On your Mac, start by downloading… Continue reading How to install MTR on Mac OS X Lion
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How To Install NANO Editor on FreeBSD
This is a quick tutorial on how to install Nano Editor on FreeBSD UNIX. If you got used to pico or nano editor and just installed FreeBSD, in my example FreeBSD 8.2 – RELEASE version, you will find out that if you try to run nano you will get an error that it’s not found.… Continue reading How To Install NANO Editor on FreeBSD
How To Remove GUI (GDM, Gnome, X Window) from CentOS
If you planned to install a CentOS server, but mistakenly also installed Desktop Environment such as GNOME, you can easily remove the GUI packages and return back to Command Line (CLI). There are two ways to do that. You can simply disable GUI or completely uninstall it. I will provide steps to do both. Disable… Continue reading How To Remove GUI (GDM, Gnome, X Window) from CentOS
How To Fix “Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion”
If you are a cPanel user on CentOS 5.6 64 bit and wanting to install Subversion, you might get this error after running ‘yum install subversion’ Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion-1.6.11-7.el5_6.4.x86_64 yum seems to unable to find needed dependency and just fails To fix this issue there’s a workaround. cd /tmpwget http://sdkit.com/download/centos/5/rpms/perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpmrpm… Continue reading How To Fix “Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package
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How To Fix Xcode 4 Installation stuck issue on Mac OS X Lion
If you like many experiencing an issue while installing Xcode 4 on Mac OS X Lion where it gets stuck at the very end at 98%-99% and seems like most packages installed but Xcode alias was not created in the Applications folder, there’s a solution for that. First of all the initial issue was with… Continue reading How To Fix Xcode 4 Installation stuck issue on Mac OS X Lion
How To Install Python 2.7 with mod_wsgi on CentOS 5.6 with cPanel
This is a step by step tutorial which will help you install Python 2.7 with mod_wsgi onto CentOS 5.6 and cPanel. Prerequisites: CentOS 5.6 32 or 64 bit with root access cPanel Note: we are not using cPanel custom modules guide because it only works with built-in Python 2.4. Creating Python folder mkdir /usr/src/python2.7cd /usr/src/python2.7… Continue reading How To Install Python 2.7 with mod_wsgi on CentOS 5.6 with cPanel
Hyper-v won’t start if you booted from Secondary disk on soft RAID1
You’re running a Hyper-V on a Server with 2 disks and using Windows Software RAID-1. Your primary disk fails and your windows crashes, but on the reboot you have an option to boot from a secondary “plex” disk. If you choose the secondary disk as it’s your only option to boot now, the boot configuration… Continue reading Hyper-v won’t start if you booted from Secondary disk on soft RAID1
How to do tracert on a Mac and Linux
Most of us, IT geeks use tracert a lot on Windows systems, but when it comes to Linux or a Mac system Windows System admins get lost. For Linux and Mac users, you need to use: traceroute
Google Apps Alias limitations
Like many others I use Google Apps account for my emails and I have more than one domain that I add as Alias to Google Apps primary account. For quite a while I’ve been wondering if there was a limit of how many aliases I can add to Google Apps and I wasn’t able to… Continue reading Google Apps Alias limitations
How to Flush DNS on Mac and Windows
To flush or reset DNS on a Mac OS X type the following into terminal and run: dscacheutil -flushcache If you have older Mac OS X, this might work for you: lookupd -flushcache To flush DNS on any Windows version, click start > Run and type in command: ipconfig /flushdns Hope this fixes your DNS… Continue reading How to Flush DNS on Mac and Windows