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“MaxAllowedZone”=dword:00000003″ charupload.wordpress.com

«By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I’m Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above. Here is how you can change it.

1. Type about:config in the location bar and press Enter.

2. Type keyword.URL in filter and double-click on the displayed line. You will note that the default value is something like:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

3. Change it to the query string of another search engine of your choice. For example if you want to use our blog results for your default search then you should replace it with:

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php?s=

5. Hit OK and close the browser tab.

You are done. Now you can use your favorite search engine to search using your location bar, instead of Google." blog.taragana.com

«When looking at emails in several IMAP folders one after the other in Mozilla Thunderbird, I got the following error message and was unable to view that folder and the emails in it.

Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server. If so, use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cached connections.

You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server

This is normally due to the configuration of the IMAP server (such as Courier-IMAP) which may be configured to only allow a certain number of connections per IP address. Fortunately you can usually solve the issue in Thunderbird by changing the number of cached connections in the advanced settings.

From the menu, select «Tools» and then «Account Settings». This looks similar to the screenshot below:

mozilla thunderbird account settings

Next, select «Server Settings» under the appropriate account (at the very least you’ll have one account, plus the local folders), and click the «Advanced» button, as shown in the screenshot above. This will show a new configuration dialog like the one show in the screenshot below:

setting the maximum number of server connections to cache

To fix the problem, change the «Maximum number of server connections to cache» value. The default setting is 5. Changing it to 3 or less worked for me, but setting it to 1 should work in all cases and make the error go away.» electrictoolbox.com

«To add the Register command in the context menu that’ll run the Regsvr32.exe command under elevated rights, you need to use the runas verb. Here is a REG file that I created, adds the runas verb for DLL and OCX file types in the following registry keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Dllfile \ runas
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Ocxfile \ runas

1. Download the file register_runas.reg and save to Desktop.

2. Right-click on the file and choose Merge.

3. Click Yes when you’re asked for confirmation.

You should now see the Register (as Administrator) command in the right-click menu for DLL and OCX file types.

» winhelponline.com

«7. Apache Security Preparation

Nagios has by default the authentication for the web interface activated.

That means after Nagios has been started and you try to access the web interface a login windows appears. Nagios has already a default user defined in the contacts.cfg (user: nagiosadmin) so we just have to create a apache password file where we store the password for it.

Do this with the following command and set the password to nagios:

# htpasswd2 -c /opt/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Password: nagios

NOTE: LDAP can also be used for user authentication and requires just a view changes to the apache configuration. But the users still have to be defined in the contacts.cfg. LDAP is used just for verifying the password. I will cover this later.

NOTE: If you do not like to define every user in the contacts.cfg and security is not the case for you, you can modify the cgi.cfg and change all «authorized_for…» parameters to «authorized_for…=*». That will give all user that authenticate to the web server (or LDAP) all permissions even they do not exist in the contacts.cfg. After ny modification to the cgi.cfg restart Nagios.
8. Apache and Nagios Startup

So now all configurations are done and we can startup the applications.

During the Nagios installation an apache config file (nagios.conf) was placed in /etc/apache2/conf.d. So we first have to restart apache to activate that configuration.

# rcapache2 restart

After that we can start Nagios for the first time. In earlier version it was always a very good idea to do a configuration verify before restarting. Otherwise Nagios could be interrupted if there were errors in. In this new version now Nagios does this automatically when it is started or reloaded. If configuration errors were found the restart / reload operation is aborted and you get a information where the error is. Correct it and retry the operation.

As we use the default configuration and we made no mistakes Nagios should start up:

# /etc/init.d/nagios start

If you would like, add Nagios for automatic startup at system boot time:

# insserv nagios

9. Nagios Test

Now Nagios should be available at the following URL: http:///nagios

As you do have the authentication settings modified you should get an authentication window where you have to enter the user nagiosadmin with password nagios.» novell.com

«To extract all files into the /tmp directory:

$ unzip pics.zip -d /tmp» cyberciti.biz

«This video tutorial explains how to How to view your website statistics from Plesk 8″ webhostingresourcekit.com

«If you’re familiar with del.icio.us you will be familiar with the tag suggesting as-you-type support.» remysharp.com

«AviScreen is an application for capturing screen activity in the form of AVI video or bitmap images. Beside the usual options defining the capture area, AviScreen has a unique feature called «follow the cursor». Using this mode you can produce a video or image of relatively small dimensions while covering all mouse activity over the whole screen area. » mi3soft.info