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Computer Hygiene

May 1st, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

The BBC Technology site has published an interesting article on computer hygiene. Tests were carried out on computer keyboards by the Consumer Group Which? and the results were astonishing (not to say scary). Some keyboards carried more bacteria than a toiled sit.
Here is a small extract from the article:
“If you look at what grows on [...]

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SugarCRM Error “IMAP won’t work without c-client”

April 25th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

This error will cripple Sugar’s email functionality, which is a major development in version 5.0, previous versions of SugarCRM Community Edition (free) did not handle emails at all. This error happens when the php5-imap extension hasn’t been installed. After searching for sometime I found a reference to php5-imap and decided to give it [...]

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SugarCRM Upgrade Error

April 23rd, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Upgrading SugarCRM Community Edition from 4.5 to 5.0 is supposed to be a walk in the park, and if you do have the right settings it will be. As in IT everything depends on the little details, SugarCRm wouldn’t be different. Don’t get me wrong I really like SugarCRM that’s why I post errors [...]

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SugarCRM installation error “MySQL not available”

April 22nd, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

While moving a SugarCRM installation to a different server I found this problem - “MySQL not available”. Firstly I had a blank page and then decide to re-run the installation script. During the system check it listed MySQL as not available, so I checked for the status of the mysql server and it was running. [...]

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You do not have permission to access Ubuntu

April 22nd, 2008 by dcouper · No Comments

I installed Ubuntu on several Dell Latitude C510/C610 that had been properly wiped and were used but empty. Once I figured out an installation CD that worked the installation went smoothly. After rebooting the computer and typing in the user name and password nothing loaded except a message saying ‘you do not have rights to [...]

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Find your Mac Address in Ubuntu

April 21st, 2008 by dcouper · No Comments

Having just starting using Ubuntu I have been needing to do some basic setup options to put my laptop on the network at the office. We use Mac Address based security and so I needed to find mine for the ethernet card.
Looking through all the administration options to find it was unsuccessful and it was [...]

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