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Open Source Alternatives

There is a ton of software a new business sometimes feels that they must purchase right when they are starting off a new business.

There Word, Excel, and Powerpoint from Micro$soft that are usually very expensive.

There is also money management software, project planning software, and graphic software.

Well there is a solution for small [...]

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Free Online Mind Mapping software

There are many solutions on the net for mind mapping software.

I have tried a few and the one that seems the simplest to use and has collaborative abilities and excellent exporting formats is  Mind42.com.  Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world – collaborative, browser-based and for free.

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Get Your Name on Every Social Network

One of the biggest advantages of social media is the ability to get your brand Web-wide recognition among very active consumers across any number of niches, large and small. One of the biggest disadvantages is the massive amount of time it takes to get these profiles set up and keep them maintained. You can also [...]

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Web Sites with Free Games

There are so many web sites now days offering free online arcade type games.

http://www.flashgames247.com/

http://www.playfuls.com

http://www.kongragate.com (My personal favorite)

http://www.miniclip.com/

http://play-free-online-games.com

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Force Tomcat to HTTPS

Need to have http redirect to https within Tomcat. Here is a good page on setting up SSL for Tomcat tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html

1. Change Tomcat’s server.xml. (<application>/tomcat/conf/server.xml) Edit the non-SSL <Connector> entry listening on port 80 and add or edit the redirectPort atribute to point to the port on which the SSL <Connector> is listening. By [...]

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How-to Add in Apache modules, ie mod_rewrite

I seem to need this information often enough so I thought I would post it here for safe keeping.

In Apache 2, shared modules must be compiled with the directive: –enable-mods-shared=’rewrite’

Multiple modules can be configured that way like so: –enable-mods-shared=’rewrite dav dav-fs’

A simple config string would look like this: ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/apache –enable-mods-shared=’rewrite’

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Sync Web Servers Script

Here is a script I wrote to keep 2 or more web sites in sync.  The data files can be anything under the data tree. The database is MySQL.

The script works by pulling the latest data and database backup from the production server.  The script can be placed in a cron. The DR server [...]

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Overcoming the dreaded SCP/SFTP message errors

If you have ever used scp or sftp you may have encountered the dreaded ( ”Received message too long” or “Bad packet length” ”) errors.

This is typically due to something being echo’d or sent back to your login attempt.

Usually, it’s something you have in your .profile or .bashrc login files.

Just add the [...]

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