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How To’s and other guides.

Mac OS X: Changing Your Short Name Without Breaking Time Machine

Posted on April 22, 2009July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

Today I got the urge to change my Mac OS X Leopard account short name (home directory) so that I would have less to type in Terminal. Here’s how I changed my short name without breaking my Time Machine backups.

How To: Setup Email Services on Ubuntu Using Postfix (TLS+SASL) and Dovecot

Posted on March 26, 2009July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

Here is a guide on getting Email services running on Ubuntu Intrepid. I used Postfix for core services (SMTP wtih TLS and SASL) and Dovecot for fast IMAP and POP3. This tutorial has been tested on a bare bones Ubuntu 8.10 slice from Slicehost.

Quick LNMP Server Setup Guide

Posted on March 26, 2009July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

Learn more about the inner workings of this website’s server and how to setup an LNMP stack.

Troubleshooting: PHP API for Cloud Files Stops at Authentication

Posted on March 23, 2009January 24, 2010 by Jon Stacey

The PHP API for Cloud Files does not catch CURL errors. An exception will be thrown, however it will not contain any useful information to troubleshoot the problem. Here is a likely symptom and a solution.

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