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I just installed Win2k8 Core on WMWare and tried to install VMWare as usual from the menu: VM\Install VMWare Tools… but nothing happened.

So I goggled and the solution is actually very easy:
1. Filemenu: “VM\Install VMWare Tools”
2. Command prompt run: “D:\Setup.exe”

That’s it…. have fun.

After a fresh installation of Windows 2008 Server you have the handy “Initial Configurations Task” Wizard. If you have chosen “Do not show this window at logon” it won’t appear anymore. So how can you relaunch it?

Just run “oobe” from the prompt.

I noticed that each time I restarted my os I didn’t get an IP and I had to start dhclient manually. So how do you get dhclient to start at startup?

Here are the steps you need to do:
1. vi etc/init.d/local

And put following code:

2. Make the file executable

3. Put it into the autostart

The smaller the number is the earlier the file will be executed.

apt-get commands
My source.list for “/etc/apt/source.list”

Update Apt Database

Upgrades Installed Packages

Install Package

Remove Package

Check if there are no broken dependencies

1. Installing Apache Webserver

To test this create a textfile

Put this code in it:

Open your browser and go to: http://ip.address/test.php or http://domain/test.php. Now you should get a generated webpage with all the information about apache/php settings.

2. Enable GD Library with PHP

3. Installing MySQL Database Server

4. Change root password on mysql

5. PhpMyAdmin Installation

The phpmyadmin configuration file is located at: /etc/phpmyadmin folder.
To setup under apache all you need to do is include the following line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Point your browser to: http://domain/phpmyadmin

This is a shortcut of the detailed described installation in:
www.mysql-apache-php.com

Windows Buttons
[ Windows Button ] + Pause	System Properties
[ Windows Button ] + D	Desktop
[ Windows Button ] + E	Explorer
[ Windows Button ] + F	Search File and Folders
[ Windows Button ] + R	Run
Command Run [ Windows Button ]
compmgmt.msc /computer=<computernamme>	Open Computer Management Console for another Computer
appwiz.cpl	Add and Remove Programs
ncpa.cpl	Network Settings
firewall.cpl	Firewall Settings
mstsc	Remote Desktop Console
services.msc	Services Management Console
eventvwr.msc	Event Viewer
sndvol32	Change Sound Volume
control	Control Panel
winword	Run Word
powerpoint	Run Powerpoint
excel	Run Excel
rsop.msc	Applied Group Policy
In Explorer
New Folder in Vista	Alt F W F

There are much more shortcuts but these are the ones I use a lot.

du -h –max-depth=1 | sort -n -r

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(now(), ‘%d-%m-%y %H:%i:%s’);

I had some computer errors today so the first thing I usually do if I don’t know the error is jump on google and search for it. So I found a couple forums about that matter. Suprisingly I noticed that there were a couple of forums overlapping with exactly the same question + answers. Second thing I noticed is a lot of ads.
So if you put this two things together you will figure it out that somebody tries to make money out of it and it works like this. You design special for search engine optimized webpages and you steal content from other webpages, you get a content changing money making machine.

I just had to do a project in php and I used pear for the form validation and email authentication. I need to say that I had some difficulty to start with but these pages helped me a lot.

Forum:
www.pear-forum.org

Tutorials:
www.midnighthax.com/quickform.php
pear.php.net

I just moved from Europe to Australia and there you actually get a fast Internet Connection but with bandwidth limitation. So you get a bandwidth volume for peak and off peak time. Of course the one one for the off peak time is much bigger. So at the begin I didn’t care much about it and I was downloading as usual. Soon I had used my volume for the peak time and I could surf just with ISDN speed during the day. So I needed scheduled downloading but I missed that feature in Azureus and aMule. So what’s the solution to that dilemma?

We know MAC OS is based on Unix and there is service called crontab which does the trick. It is running in the background and is used to run commands in a specified interval. What I basically do is open and close the download program in a specific time.

1. Open Terminal
2. “crontab -e”
3. Modifie and put the commands below:

4. To save the file press “:” (run commands) and then press “qw” (quit and write)

Explanation:
2:05am Open aMule
2:05am Open Azureus
11:55am Close aMule
11:55am Close Azureus

Of course the interval time and paths needs to be adjusted. Do a google search if you want to know more about crontab.