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Making Windows feeling like it’s a new installation

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Percy Kwong

After realizing all the people I meet that have extermely slow installations, I thought I’d write a post / article on how to make / fix your windows installation to make it work like it’s a new computer. There’s really only 3 steps to doing this. 1. Download or Buy Auslogics Boostspeed and run the…

Is Firefox preventing you from going to a website because of the port it’s on? [Solved]

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every once in a while, we need to go to a website that has a non-standard port.  For example, the address might look like this:  https://localhost:888  (This would be for the 3ware management interface for example). In Mozilla Firefox, you’ll get a screen that looks like this: [singlepic id=63] Obviously, this can be a real…

Automated Backups to Amazon S3. WordPress example explained here.

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Percy Kwong

There are tons of Automated backup plugins for WordPress, but the reality is you’re assuming they work unless you’ve actually restored one of them.  This article will explain how to do this without using anything fancy like a backup program.  In fact, I just give you a few scripts and of course the old, trusty,…

How to use Cron. The linux / unix Scheduler

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Cron as it is called is a very powerful tool.  It’s simply a scheduler that allows you to do a multitude of tasks at any given time.  It’s been around since the beginning of time and is built into every linux, unix, bsd distribution out there.  Even Microsoft has a version of Cron, albeit it’s…

centos 5 squirrelmail change sqlpass plugin

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Percy Kwong

If you’ve had issues with getting the change_sqlpass plugin to work on squirrelmail, there are definitely quite a few mashinations of the system on how to get it to work on Centos 5.x So here’s how I got it to work.  Please keep in mind that the following matters. Your SQL Mail Table called users…

Promise Pegasys R6 R4 on Windows Bootcamp [SOLVED]

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Percy Kwong

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Updating PHP to on Centos 5.x

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Updating PHP on Centos 5 can be confusing with all of the different tutorials out there, but here’s one that absolutely works.

How to Configure Siproxd with PFSense 2.0 and FreePBX with T.38

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Configuring Siproxd on pfsense. A definitive guide to making it work. Update: now with pfsense 2.0 directions, spa2102, t.38 fax configurations on freepbx

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