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  • Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.       Subject:    Test      Sent: 08/08/2011 10:00 The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:       ‘test@test.com’ on 08/08/2011 10:00              None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient. This…

  • Joomla built in rating / voting plugin allows visitors to vote on your articles. You can view ratings in the front end at the top of each article, but there is no easy way to see all rated articles in…

  • Check remaining disk space df -hReports free space on each mount. Monitor web server in real time tail -f /var/www/yoursite/logs/access.logReads Apache access long file and displays changes in real time. Your log file may be in different location depending on…

  • By default Adobe Flash Player periodically checks for new versions and gives users option to update. This may be not a desirable behaviour if flash player is deployed centrally. This also may cause a problem if users do not have…

  • If you sent a message to someone by mistake or you forgot to add or attach something you can try recalling the message. Outlook Message Recall feature only works if both sender and recipient are using Outlook and their mailboxes…

  • Ubuntu Server doesn’t have GUI, but you can find version using number of terminal commands lsb_release -a cat /etc/issue cat /proc/version uname -a

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 comes with Exchange Intelligent Message Filter v2 built in. Intelligent Message Filter uses heuristic analysis to stop SPAM by either by blocking them or directing to user’s Junk-Mail folder. To configure EIMF settings…

  • Normally you can’t place module within articles. However there is easy workaround which allows you to do exactly this. Customize your ModuleExtensions > Module Manager  > [your module]Customize your module as required.Then go to Position field, delete existing entry and…

  • Restore native Windows XP .zip file association with Compressed Folder utility Option 1 Start > Run > CMDREGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL Option 2 Start > Run > CMDcmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder Windows XP

  • Internet Explorer uses Microsoft Live / Bing as its default search provider, which is nowhere near as good as Google Search. It should be pretty easy and straightforward to add Google Search and make it the default search provider: just…

  • Although Windows XP can work with OS partition placed on D: E: or any other drive, it’s normally recommender to place it on the usual C: drive. You shouldn’t change system partition letter after Windows installation therefore you need to…

  • In certain conditions trying to open a PDF document with Adobe Reader X generates error “Before proceeding you must first launch Adobe Acrobat and accept the End User License Agreement“. Opening file from within Adobe Reader (File > Open) works…