Feb 21, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Create a CentOS Repository with mrepo

If you are a shop of any size and are building and maintaining CentOS servers, you know the need to maintain a repository with extras, updates and such. In this post we will cover how to build a repository on your network for building and maintaining CentOS. Install mrepo sudo yum -y install mrepo Edit /etc/mrepo.conf and add set the directories Create mrepo config file in /etc/mrepo.conf.d ###... read more

Feb 18, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Clearing and Backing Up Event Logs on Windows 2003 from the command line

Lets face it, we are always battling for disk space on our servers and as mush as we hate the space the the Windows event logs use we need them, but from a command line we can back them up and then clear them. We are able to do this using wmic commands and the sub command nteventlog. There are two methods available with what we are trying to accomplish, they are: BackupEventlog ClearEventlog Backup event... read more

Jan 28, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Editing and Viewing RAW images in GIMP 2.8

Introduction In this post I have decided to post some fun items on Linux. When I was in high school I was very much into art and that has continued on through out my adult life. DSLR cameras bring us RAW images which are big and uncompressed images in which we can make our own changes to the images. By default GIMP does not know how to handles the images so we turn to UFRaw (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/)... read more

Jan 26, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Install WordPress on Fedora 20

Introduction WordPress is a free and open source website and blogging tool that uses PHP and MySQL. WordPress is currently is a CMS (Content Management System. It is easy to setup websites and customize. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to get a WordPress instance set up with an Apache web server, PHP and MariaDB on Fedora 20. Prerequisites Before we can install and configure WordPress we must first... read more

Jan 5, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Scan 110mm Slides on Epson 4490

To continue on with how to scan 127mm slides we now are discussing how to scan 110mm slides. Open the Epson Scan Utility and select Professional Mode for the Mode. For Document type select Film and for Film Type select Positive Film. The next settings are at your preference, but if you want good prints then select at least 2400 dpi for the resolution. Click Preview to scan the slides. Now since the 110... read more