IDEs such as Dreamweaver can cost alot of money for the results they produce.  As the web changed, a Java based-platform, Eclipse exploded onto the development scene.  As Eclipse gained more popularity, communities formed and open-source editions that packaged it into a PHP IDE.

One of these IDEs is called Aptana. 

This Howto covers downloading and configuring Aptana for PHP and Drupal development.

To create a snapshot using Microsoft MSSQL 2005 and reverting back to the snapshot can be performed with the following queries:

Creating a snapshot:

CREATE DATABASE Test_Snapshot ON ( NAME = logical_dnName_datafile,

'Test_snapshot.mdf' ) AS SNAPSHOT OF dbName

Using a snapshot:

USE Test_Snapshot
SELECT * FROM tableName

Reverting from a snapshot:

To run a command right after you boot, before anybody logs in, add the command to the file /etc/rc.local:

1. Open a Terminal.
2. Become root: su -
3. Open the file in your favorite text editor: vi /etc/rc.local
4. Add the command that you want to run to the end of the file, on its own line.

Problem:

HTTP request status Fails
Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.

In case you forgot to add another disk or partitioned your Linux installation wrong, you can still move /home to your new drive with these steps.  This works for Fedora, CentOS or SuSE.

Make sure that you are logged in as root and that no other user is logged in, then follow these steps;

1) fdisk /dev/sdb -- create a partition
2) mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 -- format the partition as ext3
3) e2label /dev/sdb1 somelabel -- set a label 'somelabel' to the partition.

Ever wanted to resize your Windows Server VM?  This works for Server 2003 and Server 2008 if you need to resize the C: drive of your virtual machine.

This is the simplest way to extend your VMs hard drive.

Using Vmware Converter (http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/) to shrink or extend a disk

o When you use Converter to copy a VM it will transfer the data to the

Recently one of my demo units at work decided to die. This was rather unfortunate since this was my master image laptop for the other 50 some odd other Acers.

Google and a few pages help me together this:

Product
Aspire One AOA110
Related Products
Aspire One AOA150
Issue
No Display / System will not POST Aspire One AOA.

Download the BIOS from here:
AS1_BIOS_3309.zip

When you have tons of passwords, its easy to forget new ones or old ones. This is how you reset the root or admin password for Endian 2.2.rc3

1.)Connect the video and keyboard and reboot your Endian Firewall.
2.)Boot the machine and continually thumb the down arrow until you see a graphical menu on a grey background with title GNU

GRUB. Press a cursor button in order to stop the countdown. Otherwise it will boot automatically.

3.)Select the first menu item and press 'a'.

# You should see:

grub append> root=/dev/hda3 panic=10 ro

To administer Oracle Database 10g and keep it running smoothly, the DBA must regularly monitor its performance to locate bottlenecks and correct problem areas.Finding bottlenecks and problematic areas before they become an issue is in the DBA's best interest.

There are hundreds of performance measurements the DBA can look at, covering everything from network performance and disk input/output (I/O) speed to the time spent working on individual application operations. These performance measurements are usually referred to as database metrics.

The SQL Tuning Advisor

Interesting article regarding Remote SYS login

http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Remote_login_as_Sysdba_to_Oracle_da...