OpenOffice Headless Mode Installation Word doc to pdf conversion
How to set up OpenOffice to run in headless mode on Fedora 9 What we wanted was a system set up to convert any OpenOffice document to PDF. Most importantly, we needed to convert Word .doc files to...
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How to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as virtual drive on CentOS 5.2
#Note: If you are using CentOS 4, it’s the same general process. You might have more difficulty finding the packages to install fuse and dependencies. This is a simple guide on how to mount your S3...
View ArticleCentOS NFS How-to Guide: Exporting and Mounting a NFS Drive
This guide shows you how to start an NFS service on one (host) machine, export the NFS drive, and then connect to that NFS drive from a client machine. ## On the NFS host machine: #Start Portmap...
View ArticleRails Rotating Log Files with logrotate
I know there’s a way to specify Rails log rotation parameters directly in the app. This works for some people: # Can place this in environment.rb # 2nd argument - number of log files to keep # 3rd...
View ArticleCSV Escaping Double Quotes
What is the proper way to escape double-quotes in CSV files? When you try to export from MySQL in CSV format, the MySQL reference manual itself suggests using FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY...
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Quick! create a self-signed SSL certificate in Ubuntu
Especially for testing SSL, I can never remember how to create a self-signed certificate. Here’s a quick and dirty guide to setting up a self-signed certificate. Obviously, not recommended for...
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