IT Systems Engineering
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Make an external hard drive bootable
ok, so I found a lot of information on how to make a USB flash drive bootable. But none of them worked on making an external USB mechanical hard drive bootable. I finally found a procedure which actually worked! It is posted here by Kevin. Note 1: On step #2 where he talks about running the bootsect command….there is something more which needs to be done. The CMD prompt on my win 7 machine had to be elevated (right click on the cmd and choose “run as admin”). After that this command made my external drive bootable: bootsect /nt60 G: Yahoo! (thanks Kevin!) Note 2: The tool from Microsoft does not work for external Mechanical HDDs. It only…
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Fix for WordPress MU images not showing up
I have been troubleshooting why images on my wordpress MU installation dont show up after upgrade to the latest version 3.3.2 [from 3.3.1]. After spending a very long time I came across a very useful post. This post describes that the .htaccess file needs to be edited to fix the problem.
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How to check if mod_rewrite is really working
While working with WordPress I came to a point where I needed to check if mod_rewrite was really working and working properly on my Ubuntu Server. Searching for a quick test I found this post on the ‘net. Pretty useful!
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Troubleshooting copying WordPress to another domain
I was moving a prod wordpress blog to a dev environment for development work. I have been following these instructions. The domain name is going to change. I have edited the wp-config.php file with the new names and database credentials. However, I keep getting the same error over and over again: Error establishing database connection I have been troubleshooting this for 2 days now. I now suspect that the database needs to be changed in some way. I faintly remember that the last time I moved a wordpress blog to a different domain… I had to run some kind of database cleanup script. Hmmmm…where was that information 🙁 got it…
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Network fix for copied Ubuntu virtual server
When a Ubuntu VM is copied its network may not work. Here is the fix: Delete this file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules By deleting the file, the boot scripts look for the new device and will assign it the new mac address