Author Archives: Ketan Patel

GoDaddy NameServer not registered

Recently, I moved over to a new host with a dedicated box and I had to setup the nameservers for my domain kpsolution.com. In Godaddy’s domain manager, I tried to change the nameservers to my domain like ns1.xxxx.com and ns2.xxxx.com, … Continue reading

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Google reporting site may harm your computer

Today, 31st January 2009, 10 AM EST, Google has been reporting all sites whatsoever as a malware sites with the error “This site may harm your computer”. Even sites like microsoft, google, yahoo, cnn were all affected because of this … Continue reading

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Use RSYNC to backup data on a second hard disk

On a production server, if you have two hard disk and do not want to spend extra $50 each month, then you could use rsync to backup the data from your main disk to the second disk. It’s very easy … Continue reading

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Open ODT file in Microsoft Word 2007/2003

Many times you may have to open the openoffice documents (.odt) in microsoft office. To do so, you will have to install the SUN ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office and then you would be able to open the open officie … Continue reading

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PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library php_openssl.dll

You might get the error: “PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library php_openssl.dll. The operating system cannot run %1“, when you are trying to start the apache server in the error.log file. Basically what this error is trying to mention … Continue reading

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Not enough storage is available to complete this operation Yahoo Messenger

Recently, I started to get this error message whenever I tried to use IM in yahoo messenger. As soon as I click on the contact to open the Instant Messenger, an error will popup with message that the “Not enough … Continue reading

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Enable dark background in Eclipse

I was looking around to find a good source which would allow me to control the background of the eclipse. I like black background with white text as foreground. Doing so in eclipse is not straightforward. My System setup is: … Continue reading

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How to generate a patch?

To generate a patch for your modified code. All you have to do is generate a diff between original and modified source files using the following command and save the output to the patch file. diff -rup /home/ketan/unmodified_source.c /home/ketan/modified_source.c > … Continue reading

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Readelf – Very useful Command

Till now I have been using ‘ldd’ for checking out the dependencies for a linux executable. But recently I discovered, ‘readelf’. It is really amazing utility and comes in very handy when you are analyzing a utility intended for a … Continue reading

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How to add a user to a group?

I keep on forgetting this command, so I put it here to remember it forever. To add a user ‘ketan’ to the group ‘admin’, do the following gpasswd -a ketanĀ  admin Such a simple and each to use command!!!

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