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Dell Mini9
So last week my Dell Mini9 arrived, thanks Michael!! It took long enough to arrive, we ordered 3 of them a day before they were removed from the Dell website. They’ve returned now, a hundred dollars more expensive though… and in white, gah!
Anyway mine arrived safely about 3 weeks after the original order, and it’s an awesome bit of gear.
IPv6 on Cisco 877w
IPv6 on a Cisco 877w doesn’t work… well it does… providing you don’t want to use the wireless bit.
rtr1(config)#int dot11radio0
rtr1(config-if)#ipv6 ?
% Unrecognized command
rtr1(config-if)#
Despite what you might read on the interwebs, you can’t actually apply an IPv6 address to either the dot11radio interface or sub interfaces.
Permission denied: /.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file
If you ever see this in your Apache logs:
Permission denied: /path/to/web/data/html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
Think permissions, permissions, permissions. If you have chmod’ed your .htaccess 644 or even 777 and it’s still not working, start traversing up your directory tree and make sure apache can access everything at each level.
Permissions required will depend on the exact server and software setup, but generally something like 755 (drwxr-xr-x) is probably a good start.
Joomla error number 2006 MySQL server has gone away
I look after a number of servers in my spare time 
One of the guys who I help out contacted me recently with a weird Joomla issue when trying to install a particular component.
* JInstaller::install: SQL Error. DB function failed with error
number 2006
MySQL server has gone away SQL=CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
`jos_comprofiler` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0′, `user_id` int(11) NOT
Other modules and components would install fine, the only one failing to install was comprofiler, part of the Community Builder module for Joomla/Mambo. Other parts of the same module were also installing fine.
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Spammers Love Free Wordpress Themes
Don’t you just love free stuff? It’s awesome that people are happy to create and give away stuff on the Internet for free, like Wordpress themes.
You just have to be aware that spammers are also in the free Wordpress theme game!
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