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Again, Plesk proved to be a 4-hour time-suck, even though mailman support has supposedly been “out of the box” for awhile. Here are the important steps: If in the Plesk control panel for all clients, you do not see a “Setup Mailman” icon under Servers, then it’s already mostly set up and you don’t have… Continue reading Configuring GNU Mailman on Plesk 8

A bit off-topic but I thought I’d share. A friend of mine had this CT scan on CD and was having trouble reading it on his PC (sometimes it worked, sometimes not). And simply copying it to his hard disk enabled it unreadable. So I offered to debug why, and lo and behold, a quick… Continue reading Reading CT scans with eFilmLT.exe on Vista

So sadly, Excel doesn’t enclose its CSV fields with double-quotes (“) which phpMyadmin needs. This workaround I found on the Microsoft support site: Open the original CSV file in Excel Run the macro listed above (repeated here) to save out the file: Sub QuoteCommaExport() ‘ Dimension all variables. Dim DestFile As String Dim FileNum As… Continue reading Importing Excel CSV files into PhpMyAdmin

My new VPS is running Plesk 8.x which looks awesome (I think it uses ExtJS for the UI), but oddly has a fairly steep learning curve to do simple things. Inexplicably, it starts you out without yum (perhaps to encourage you to use their package manager)? Their package manager couldn’t seem to resolve the dependencies… Continue reading How to install yum on Plesk 8 / Centos 5

I find this useful for “un-versioning” a Subversioned directory structure. Works via Cygwin, not sure if there’s a pure Windows equivalent: $ rm -rvf `find . -name ‘.svn*’` Credit goes to one of the replies on this forum.