Input the following details: Select “SMTP” as the mail protocol Insert “ssl://smtp.gmail.com” as the SMTP hostname Insert your SMTP username and SMTP password. This is your email address and password used…
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Install mod_jk to remove Tomcat port 8080 from URL
mod_jk is an apache module which connects Tomcat to webservers. What this allows is for you to remove any port numbers from the url. In short mod_jk forwards requests from…
Creating a desktop/application launcher Ubuntu
Start off by executing the following command: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/YOUR-PROGRAM-NAME.desktop Add the following to the file: [Desktop Entry] Version=13.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/home/USERNAME/PATH-TO-PROGRAM-FOLDER/PROGRAM-ICON.png Name[en_US]=PROGRAM-NAME Exec=/home/USERNAME/PATH-TO-PROGRAM-FOLDER/PROGRAM-NAME.sh Name=PROGRAM-NAME Icon=/home/USERNAME/PATH-TO-PROGRAM-FOLDER/PROGRAM-ICON.png Change permissions and ownership…
Fixing Warning: require_once(Cache/Lite.php): failed to open stream Joomla SOLVED
When moving Joomla from one server to another you might come across this nasty little error. To solve, simply edit configuration.php in your www or public_html directory and locate <code…
Move Android apps to SD card
To move apps from your internal storage to external SD card storage, follow these steps: Go to settings, and click on “Application manager” Select the app to be moved from…
Screencasting in Ubuntu
I have tried a good number of screencasting programs and neat little program which records good quality video and voice is Kazam. It can be downloaded here:
spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory – SOLVED Ubuntu 15.10
A minor issue with Spotify on Ubuntu 15.10. First install Spotify on Ubuntu 15.10 as per normal, and then execute the following commands: wget http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.5.0-5+deb7u3_amd64.deb And then: sudo dpkg -i…
Center an image with CSS
Nice and simple. In your CSS: img.center { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } And then in your HTML: Courtesy of about tech
Allow VoIP phone system through Pfsense
I spent ages trying to figure out why our VoIP base station could not connect to the external PBX through Pfsense, only to find out that Pfsense works quite happily…
Create CentOS 7 install disk on Ubuntu
The first step to creating a bootable CentOS USB disk is to insert the flash disk on which you'd like to install CentOS. Next, determine the mount point of the…
