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How to safely kill rails WEBrick server running in daemon mode

Posted by Tyler Allen in Fix It, Main on December 4, 2012

Ruby on rails and the WEBrick Daemon are great for testing however there are times when you start a WEBrick server in daemon mode and later find you need to stop this without restarting the box. This can sometimes be troublesome, especially if you accidently kill a live server. In this tutorial I’ll go through ensuring you kill the correct process. Read the rest of this entry »

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Adprep & Adprep32 Download

Posted by Tyler Allen in Main on September 3, 2012

Adprep.exe and Adprep32.exe is a tool found on the Windows Server 2008 installation disc, it is a tool that performs operations that must be completed in an existing Active Directory environment before you can add a new domain controller. You must run this tool if you are: Read the rest of this entry »

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How to mass/bulk delete all unapproved comments from wordpress

Posted by Tyler Allen in Fix It, Main, Short on November 3, 2011

Do you have the problem of hundreds of comments building up on your WordPress site, we’ll the best solution is to check it regularly and delete the unwanted comments, just leaving the appropriate ones. However what happens if you go on holiday for a week and don’t check your blog, or if your forget to look at your comments for a few day (i.e. lost weekend down the pub) well you’ll probably find several hundred comments have built up in this time. Now you can delete these comments manually but this is time consuming. To make your life easier I’m going to go through some simple ways of deleting all unapproved comments while not using phpMyAdmin (as every other tutorial I’ve seen does use phpMyAdmin). Read the rest of this entry »

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