How to force NTP sync in Red Hat Linux
How to force NTP sync in Red Hat Linux So maybe you've done this before...you tell your Red Hat server to use Network Time Protocol..hit Apply and wait expectantly. And then you wait some more and...
View ArticleLZ32.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error.
Occasionally when trying to install software on Windows 7 I've hit the error: No promises this will work in every situation, but I've been able to resolve this by: Downloading the version of the DLL...
View Article{{MEDIA_URL}} blank in Django Template
Are you trying to use the {{MEDIA_URL}} template tag and see it resolving as blank? You have most likely omitted the third optional argument to your render_to_response call in your underlying view....
View ArticleHow to disable Synaptics Touchpad in Fedora 13
This worked for me using an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop but I think it should be somewhat hardware independent. Apparently with this version of Fedora the way the xorg conf files are arranged is different...
View ArticleHow to check what processes are holding a port open in LInux
Enter the following: fuser -n tcp <port#> This will list the PID's holding that port. You can now ps/kill or do whatever needed. Good day. AuthorJoel
View ArticleShow total size of directory contents in Linux
Enter the following: du -ch | grep total This will show the size of all the contents of you current directory. AuthorJoel
View ArticleRemove and Ignore *.pyc files in SVN Repository
Please note, that this isn't by any means a solution I came up with myself. Credit is due to the following two blog articles: (1) (2) Revert any SVN files that have been previously committed and might...
View ArticleHow to Backup an SVN Repository and omit all the SVN Stuff
Use this command to tar up a SVN repository and skip all the SVN internal files (and in this case some static WWW files and PYC code): tar cvf /bkup/uw.tar --exclude=.svn --exclude=*.pyc...
View ArticleIgnore a Directory in SVN Repo
This will ignore everything in the 'upload' directory. svn propset svn:ignore '*' upload/ AuthorJoel
View ArticleSimple Module Reload in Python
So I'm playing in the Python shell and do something like: import controller.util or from controller.util import something Then I see I did something silly in my controller.util code and my...
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