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PHP5 cURL   If you already have a LAMP server and PHP cURL is not yet installed you can open the terminal and use the command below: After downloading and installing you need to restart the apache/httpd service by using the command below: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

    I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP on windows 7.  I tried to install drupal version 7.9 and went through an error as shown in the image below: The error “Your web server does not appear to support any common PDO database extensions.” can be fixed by following these steps: Open your php.ini file Around line 966 uncomment the line “extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll” Make sure you have php_pdo_mysql.dll on your ext folder or download it here php_pdo_mysql Restart Apache and you can [...]

            My girlfriend and I have the same ISP and they are providing us with their private IP without any control on their devices.  We are 4-5 kilometers apart and we need to share files for our work though we have alternatives like CLOUD services (e.g. dropbox) but there are some stuff that the cloud cannot do for us.  I also need to provide technical support and some other stuff that she wants help.  Our [...]

image taken www.nightlion.net Chromium, google’s browser is one of the fastest browser.  Since I started using chrome, I have a hard time going back to firefox which is  the default browser for Backtrack 5.  Though firefox is also nice to use but when it comes to speed chromium goes first for me. After searching on the net how to install it on backtrack 5.  I was directed to this forum, then I downloaded the file and tried chromium 64bit, it finally [...]

Mikrotik is a router os that comes with a lot of features.  To see what you can do with it, just visit their official website www.mikrotik.com.  I prefer using mikrotik as an alternative to cisco products because it is cheaper, easy to configure and the community is growing bigger.  But for free versions I would use PFSense or mOnOwall whose bare-bones are derived from BSD. One of the problems in a network are bogus IPs or also known as bogon. [...]

  I have been using netbeans PHP as my IDE in developing websites and web applications for my clients. Netbeans is now in version 7.01 and one of the latest feature added is the line wrap feature. If you have problems on how to enable line wrapping, this post is for you. This post is another howto in enabling line wrap in your Netbeans IDE. To start, you need to open your netbeans IDE version 7.01, go to editor tab [...]

I am a great fan and a user of mozilla thunderbird. I have used different mail clients like microsoft outlook, opera mail, zimbra mail client, etc. I tested them all for 2 weeks or more and ended up with thunderbird. One think I like about thunderbird is that you can add new features to it for free through their add-ons. Aside from the add-ons mozilla is active and updates are always there for free. Part of my work is to [...]