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This will strip all annoying extra nonsense when copy/pasting from Word: tinyMCE.init({ selector: “textarea”, menubar: false, plugins: “paste”, paste_as_text : true, paste_data_images: false, paste_word_valid_elements: “”, paste_webkit_styles: “”, paste_retain_style_properties : “”, toolbar: “insertfile | bold italic | bullist numlist”, height : … Continue reading →

f you have mysql stored procedure that changes database tables — you probably want to enclose the whole procedure in a single transaction and add error handling to roll back the work if anything fails. Here is how to do … Continue reading →

My brother MFC 9440CN printer said something like Yellow toner end of life. I knew these high capacity toners should not be out of life. It is just like the car maintenance indicator. But my printer wouldn’t print! So I … Continue reading →

To run SQL dumps through gzip compression on the fly 1) Create a named pipe to destination for the sql spool using this command: mknod output.pipe p 2) run a process in the background to compress any data sent to … Continue reading →

Sometimes when you have php programs that render data from databases, after updating the data from a webpage the server will cache the results from before the update effectively showing wrong data. We found this to be especially problematic with … Continue reading →

There are issues when you use mysqldump to dump a database and it contains DEFINER=root@x.x.x.x type references. THese are typically in the create procedures or trigger statements. The dump files contain the actual machine name even though the source .sql … Continue reading →

We finally came up with a solution for the IE prompts for PIN multiple times and passwrods.   The solution turned out to be adding a Content Header  to treat the xls files as “Attachements”  — this way IE doesn’t … Continue reading →

Command to clone a disk from an esxi VM from command line. Make sure the VM is shut down. Then you can just: cd /vmfs/volumes/Datastore mkdir NEW_VM cd SOURCE_VM vmkfstools -i source.vmdk ../NEW_VM/new_vm.vmdk  

You can pipe output of tar to split command to make smaller chunks that are easier to transfer. tar czv /pathtofiles | split -b 1000M -d – “test.tar.gz.” Then to untarr you can use this command: cat test.tar.gz.* | tar … Continue reading →