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	<description>tips and tricks for web developers &#038; designers, and system &#038; network admins</description>
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		<title>Backup individual registry keys to file from command line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While setting up some backup scripts for a windows server (using NasBackup - go go gadget free plug) I realized I should also be backing up certain registry keys to go along with the files. Clearly a solution that could be initiated from command line (in a bash batch script as I can&#8217;t write VBscript [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2008/10/08/backup-individual-registry-keys-to-file-from-command-line/</link>
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		<title>How to add a column to a mysql 5 table only if the column does not already exist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The situation is this: You are running a database update script, and you need to add an additional field to a table in a way such that the script will not fail if the column already exists (from a previous update etc.). Most people would simply use a php script to get the layout of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2008/09/16/how-to-add-a-column-to-a-mysql-5-table-only-if-the-column-does-not-already-exist/</link>
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		<title>FTP Problems - netout: Broken pipe 550 can&#8217;t access file.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, one of my backup scripts started erroring out while sending the backups offsite to an FTP server. The error message was:
200 Port command successful
150 Opening data channel for file transfer.
netout: Broken pipe
550 can't access file.
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		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2008/09/01/ftp-problems-netout-broken-pipe-550-cant-access-file/</link>
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		<title>BIND: ‘RRset exists (value dependent)’ prerequisite not satisfied (NXRRSET)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently checking through Splunk when I came across these messages in the logs of one of my servers:
Oct 7 20:59:33 web named[13698]: client 111.222.333.444#50389: updating zone ‘domain.com/IN’: update failed: ‘RRset exists (value dependent)’ prerequisite not satisfied (NXRRSET)
Oct 7 20:59:34 web named[13698]: client 111.222.333.444#50392: update ‘domain.com/IN’ denied
Oct 7 21:59:35 web named[13698]: client 111.222.333.444#50422: updating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2008/08/18/bind-%e2%80%98rrset-exists-value-dependent%e2%80%99-prerequisite-not-satisfied-nxrrset/</link>
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		<title>IIS Manager Snap-in is blank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes IIS manager takes 10-20 seconds to load, and when it is finally loaded it has no server connected (and therefore no websites). Apparently this is fairly common on Sharepoint 2007 servers, and the fix is to restart the sharepoint timer service, but I do not run sharepoint.
As a side effect of this problem with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2008/01/25/iis-manager-snap-in-is-blank/</link>
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		<title>PHP on Windows not using correct php.ini file</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just installed PHP 5 on a windows 2003 server running IIS 6 and found that none of my extentions were loading correctly. Upon further inspection of the phpinfo() command, I found the following:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path 	C:\WINDOWS
Loaded Configuration File 	(none)

So PHP had decided not to use the php.ini file that was located in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2008/01/08/php-on-windows-not-using-correct-phpini-file/</link>
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		<title>how to rebuild software RAID1 on linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so you have done the right thing and set up your linux server (or desktop) with software RAID1 on all partitions, but when a hard drive dies, how do you actually recover the system with minimal downtime? Elementary my dear Watson, read on and learn!
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		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2007/03/14/how-to-rebuild-software-raid1-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>email from my server is failing sender verify tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day a customer contacted us to say that he was trying to send email from several accounts on one of our servers to an account on another server and it was bouncing back with the following error:

foo@remoteserver.com
Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO::
host remoteserver.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 451 Could not complete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2007/03/08/email-from-my-server-is-failing-sender-verify-tests/</link>
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		<title>how to use parked domains as addon domains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those not familiar with the terminology:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_parking
Many web hosts limit the number of additional domains you can have on an account, however they usually allow you to park any domain you want, regardless of the addon domains limit. Simply place this code in your .htaccess file, and you will be able to use any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2007/03/08/how-to-use-parked-domains-as-addon-domains/</link>
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		<title>blocking evil bots from your website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me recently that search engines are not the only web-bots crawling the intrawebs these days. A fair chunk of web traffic is spam bots trolling your website, looking for email addresses to send coupons for cheap viagra and scantily clad ladies of negotiable virtue. Obviously we want to stop these bots from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.not-sexy.com/2007/03/08/blocking-evil-bots-from-your-website/</link>
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