Category: Tutorial

How to install MTR on Mac OS X Lion

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

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 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