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ZPanel Hosting Control Panel

I am looking around for a control panel that can. Create a domain, add users, add mysql databases and basically lighten the load when adding websites to my Rackspace VPS. Zpanel does all of the above but... I notice that it runs apache and mod_php as the apache user...

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ElegantThemes Divi FTW

I have a friend who does roof tiling and repairs, along with gutter cleaning in Maitland NSW. I have just gotten him a website going using Eleganthemes.com Divi Wordpress theme. The Divi theme is a powerful html5 mobile friendly theme which has so many pre -...

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My Head is Feeling Stuffy

Many different interests on the web want their own Web Metadata Protocols and Schemas to allow web site operators to present data to them so they can easily place it on their pages whether it's social networks, search engines, browsers, mobile devices there are...

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GIMP 2.8.10 on a Microsoft RDP Server

GIMP 2.8.10 on a Microsoft RDP Server

The last time I installed Gimp on a Microsoft Terminal Server It was a little buggy. But this time the result seems to be OK. This is on Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 in terminal services mode. Note: I don't work in an environment where I have dozens of users stress...

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Insync Fedora 20 File Sync Icons Missing

Problem: Despite the insync process running the Insync Custom Icons not displaying in Nautilus under Gnome Shell in Fedora 20. Cause: nautilus-python core dumping when attempting to load  insync_plugin.py (which is what enables the custom icons) Resolution: Install...

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Linux PDF Annotation Support

Linux PDF Annotation Support

If you want to add comments / notes and highlight text in Linux with a native PDF viewer Okular is your huckleberry Note: I found that you have to do a File ==> Save As and resave PDF documents annotated with Okular in order to be able to view the annotations in...

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Linux find all files younger than

I wanted to find some files that I downloaded in the last 5 days: Basically the below command says find all files in the current directory and below with a changed time (-ctime) of less than 5 days from now. [rupert@qad_server dtlive]$ find . -ctime -10 . ./TMP6934.02...

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