To mount an NFS share using fstab (/etc/fstab) you need to know a few things, the hostname or IP address of the NFS server, the share name and where you intend to mount the share at. Next, add thi...

Today I ran into this error: Base class package “Tree::DAG_Node” is empty.     (Perhaps you need to ‘use’ the module which defines that package first.)  at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/Val...

If you happen to have a Asterisk solution for voice on your network occasionally it is nice to be able to send faxes from your network without the need of a PSTN line at your endpoint. At my compa...

PLEASE NOTE: I have posted an update for CentOS5.4 and GhostScript 8.70! Today I needed a newer version of ghostscript on my server pool for some back-end processing we do. Updating ghostscript f...

I updated the Browser.php class today to detect Google’s Chrome Browser. Additionally, thanks to an idea from Daniel ‘mavrick’ Lang, I added isBrowser($browserName) as a function to version 1.1. ...

After digging through the Internet looking for a solution to install PBX in a Flash on an OpenVZ VPS and coming out empty handed I decided to dissect the installation myself and I came up with the ...

For a recent project I needed to perform document translations from DOC to PNG which requires an essential intermediate step to PDF. The transformations required us to go to from DOC to PDF which ...

By far the most messy thing on CentOS 5.2 is adding Sun’s Java.  I have never found great success from the different packages that are out there for installing java.  I prefer to simply use the pac...

I have two older machines with Adaptec 2400A RAID cards in them which recently both got upgraded to CentOS5.  The first task was to figure out how to monitor the arrays.  CentOS 5.2 went in without...

Today I ran across a unique need to remove images from a WordPress post in a specific post loop.  Because there is no way to do a read more excerpt while taking strict control of the raw content fr...