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Bitbucket backup all repositories – Bitbucket Backup Script

21 July 2014·1 min readArchive

Issue Bitbucket Backup All Repositories How to Backup my entire bitbucket accounts to a local system. Backup should be easily restorable to any git provider. Restore should contain the branches, tags...

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Get Old Compose window Gmail / Google Apps

16 July 2014·1 min readArchive

Issue – How to get the Gmail Old Compose window back ? – We need the old gmail compose window in gmail and google apps ? ##### Solution – You can install the Chrome and Firefox plugin from...

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How to enable Leverage Browser Caching in website with .htaccess

28 June 2014·1 min readArchive

Issue How to enable Leverage Browser Caching for my website or server. How to set expiry time for my website contents. How to enabled Leverage Browser Caching for my wordpress / joomla / drupal /...

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How to enable gzip compression on my website

28 June 2014·1 min readArchive

Issue Gzip compression wordpress SEO recommends to enable gzip compression on web contents. Enable gzip on your website to improve the Page Speed Grade on gtmetrix.com and load time on...

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Ovirt on RHEL5 or RHEL6 Requires: libvirt-lock-sanlock Requires: sanlock-python

16 June 2014·1 min readArchive

Issue While installing ovirt on RHEL5 or 6, you may come up with the following error with yum. *Requires: libvirt-lock-sanlock* *Requires: sanlock-python* Solution [sociallocker] All you need is to...

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Django application on an Nginx + cPanel Apache setup

28 April 2014·1 min readArchive

This is how you configure an Django application on your cPanel webserver with Nginx + Apache. Here my should be running only over httpS URL for the public, ## Steps 1. Install cPanel as normal, 2....

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How to Watch HD YouTube Videos over 3G / 4G LTE on iPhone

7 April 2014·1 min readArchive

Story Brought a new iPhone 5S, with super fast 4G LTE Network with 30 GB Monthly bandwidth. and was ready to test the HD video playback on the Retina Display. Installed YouTube app and searched for...

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World Backup Day 2014

31 March 2014·1 min readArchive

Yes, Its 31st Mar 2014, The World Backup Day and Just one day for April Fool’s Day !!! So Be prepared, Back up your files on March 31st. For how to, Go through the site www.worldbackupday.com and see...

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Apache 2.4 – Error during SSL Handshake with remote server

16 December 2013·1 min readArchive

Issue Error during SSL Handshake with remote server Usually happens with the following scenario. Server 1 – Apache as SSL proxy to server2 Server 2 – Runs the web service such as apache or nginx....

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How to rename eth1 to eth0

27 November 2013·1 min readArchive

Issue – How to rename eth1 to eth0 – How to rename ethX to yourname Hey, Most of the time when you are dealing with cloned Virtual Linux Servers, You may get the Ethernet device name as eth3,4 etc...

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How to Reset wordpress admin password via MySQL query or PhpMyadmin

29 October 2013·1 min readArchive

This is how you can reset the password of your wordpress admin user. – Connect to your wordpress database via phpmyadmin or mysql-clients like sqlyog – Select the database and get ready to run the...

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Esay way to check remote server status (whether it is up/down) from a list of servers using nmap

22 October 2013·1 min readArchive

Suppose, serverlist is the file-name which contain all the list of servers. Enter below nmap command from your jumphost:- nmap -iL serverlist -sP|grep up

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