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Force Restart HP TouchPad
Whether you are running Android ICS CM9 on your HP TouchPad or the stock webOS, chances are the touch screen will not work sometimes after the device went to sleep. When you wake up the device, you won’t be able to unlock it. Even if you press the power button and show the options, you…
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Remove WordPress Maintenance Mode
Sometimes, upgrades fail at some point for some reason. That will leave your site in maintenance mode and unusable. That’s the “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance” that we see while the upgrade is on-going or if it fails. So how do we get out of the maintenance mode?
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Hide sqlldr Oracle Password in PS Command
Our internal audit team has raised an issue on some scripts exposing database user, password and tns. You see, all you need is an access to unix shell and run ps command and you’ll be able to get the user id and password of the database. On the otherhand, there’s not a lot of people…
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How To Turn Off eShop Test Mode
If you are using the latest WordPress version (which you should!!!), you’ll notice that eShop plugin will be perpetually set to Test Mode and there’s no way to turn it off. There’s quite a number of suggestions in the official forum at quirm.net but as it turns out, the option is inadvertently hidden. All you…
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comfort Host Panel Down
I had a major database problem in one of my sites the other day (more on that later). Though I was able to rectify that with my backup, I wanted to restore my VPS from it’s daily backup using the control panel of ComfortHost. Unfortunately, I cannot access the main site and neither the panel…
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How to Cancel Dropbox Upload
There are times when you inadvertently upload large files from your phone to your cloud storage like Dropbox. And when you’re on an area with weak 3G/HSPA+ coverage, it will take forever to upload the file. The other problem is… it will drain your battery. That’s exactly what happened to me last night. What’s more…
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How to Get The First File in Unix
In case you are looking files using ls or find command and only want to get the first file found, the command would be like. ls -l /any/path/filename*|sed -e ‘s///,/g’|awk -F “,” ‘{print $NF}’|head -1 Of course, you can also use it in find command. find /any/path/ -name “filename*” -type f|sed -e ‘s///,/g’|awk -F “,”…
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How to Display Seconds in Unix File Timestamp
Apparently, there’s no native shell command to show the seconds portion of a unix file timestamp. The nearest to this functionality is stat. However, it’s not always available in unix systems. I’m using HP-UX and it’s not installed on our server. Instead, I needed to use a one-line perl program shown below. perl -e .foreach(@ARGV){$t…
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SpotVPS First Impressions
After the unfortunate incident last week with NordicVPS, I decided to look for a new VPS host. As usual, I went to lowendbox and get the reviews in webhostingtalk. It’s there where I stumbled upon a promo from SpotVPS. As it turns out, SpotVPS is a low-cost VPS offering of ComfortHost.NET. And who are they?…
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