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if some of you didnt notice, there was about a 2 day downtown on my server. i had a power outage one day and i wasnt at home, so the backup battery ran out and the server fell hard. i had numerous errors upon login with no answer to be found.

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i came across a thread in the ubuntu forums by peabody. he created a python script called autokey that will take your abbreviations and expand them as you type. it looks pretty damn cool, check it out here and watch the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_mlQdZPO0

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long time, no post… i am back and decided to start off with a small howto. since i am always moving websites and web based programs from server to server, i thought others might benefit from this.

following these steps, you’ll be able to backup a database on one server and restore it to (the same server if upgrading an app or) a different server.

first thing you need to do is know what username/password you are using for the database and what the name of the database is. you can do this by logging into mysql with the root user and displaying a list of the databases that are available.

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this howto is based off of planet malaysia’s howto as well as other varies sources on the web, but for web access only. i also added a solution to the “.ini” and certificate issues that are known to happen.

first, install libmotif3

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install libmotif3

download citrix client 10.6 or the latest version from www.citrix.com. once downloaded, open a terminal and enter the following commands (where you saved the tar.gz file)

tar xvzf en.linuxx86.tar.gz

cd en.linuxx86

sudo ./setupwfc

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