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If it’s true that consumers rely on search to move between devices (like mobile phone to desktop – http://www.scribd.com/doc/104313542/Multiscreenworld-Final slide 25) it seems to me there has to be a better way to streamline and improve the customer experience. Why can’t we make it so that if a consumer is researching something on their mobile […]

I’ve been using the linux command line for enabling or disabling an ethernet interface for so long now, I’m having trouble remembering the difference on Mac OS X. Linux is handled as follows: sudo ifup eth0 sudo ifdown eth0 The Mac OS X equivalent of this is: sudo ifconfig en0 up sudo ifconfig en0 down

Networking stopped working for my Ubuntu VirtualBox Server (running on Mac OS X) and it couldn’t seem to get it working again. Tried running: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart only to get errors about “Failed to bring up eth0…” until I found a workaround on howtogeek.com, which worked to solve my issues like a charm!  Thanks How-To-Geek […]

For some reason I’m having a difficult time remembering how to switch virtual terminals when running Ubuntu under VirtualBox on Mac OS X (probably due to how infrequently I need to run this). The shortcut key sequence is: fn + option + F2 Note on some MacBook Pro’s fn + command (host key) + F2 […]

I needed to add new MIME types to Plesk running IIS 6 in order to allow download of Microsoft Office 2007 & 2010 files saved with the new office extensions (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx). IIS 6 restricts the files it will serve by default, which is a good thing in my opinion, requiring administrators to […]

If you already have a key file with a passphrase that Apache uses for SSL, you can prevent Apache from prompting for the passphrase when you reboot or stop and start Apache. You can do so by replacing the original key file with a new replacement key file as follows: Let’s assume your key file […]

Parts of this post are taken from: https://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/security.htm – these worked to resolve issues I was having with Plesk with custom sites but not with WordPress sites, which also required the plugin listed below. Automatic installation of ISAPI_Rewrite on a clean default Windows system does not require any permission tweaking. But installing of some other […]

Generate a key on your local machine ssh-keygen -t dsa or ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 hit enter at the prompts and specifying a strong password Copy the key to a remote machine cat .ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh username@hostname ‘cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys’ or cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh username@hostname ‘cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys’ This should work whether you’re using […]

As a web developer it’s often handy to be able to actually see all the unix related filesystem folder’s from within Finder. By default these are not displayed as a feature of the OS, but it’s quick and easy to turn this feature off to see all folders on the hard drive in Finder. to […]