Wget is a great command line for grabbing things from the web, but it doesn’t ship with macs. So if you want to install it here are a few steps:

1. download the source file: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.tar.gz
2. compile and install it:
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If you are thinking to sell your computer or only its hard disk then maybe it would be nice to know how to wipe your computer data.

After you followed this procedure there will be no way to recover your data.

The magic command is here, you can use LiveCD (for example Knoppix):
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My sysadmin email address which server notifications come to started getting emails about a mailbox quota getting close on a cPanel server. I logged into the client’s control panel to increase their mailbox quota, I found the account, doubled the quota and went to save it when I got the following error message:

invalid maildirsize file

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If the .htaccess has an error you should get a 500 error when you try to access the website. Is that the case?

You can check if mod_rewrite is compiled in with Apache doing:
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Many a time I cursed and vailed because VMware had let me down. Here is a “quick” and dirty way to access your corrupted VMware server/workstation .vmdk files.

Here is how I managed to recover Zimbra mail servers “mail folders” (Ubuntu6/ext3) from corrupted VMware server image using WindowsXP, VMware Server, Ken Kato’s “Virtual Disk Driver for Windows NT platform” & Diskinternals Linux reader.
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