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Installing GIT on MediaTemple servers

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

I’ve had all kinds of issues installing GIT on our MediaTemple servers.  They are not default installs but are pretty close.  I’ve done a lot of reading and found some great answers on sites like themattharris.com.  Most of what I’ve read hasn’t worked because I cannot get YUM to install correctly.  After much digging here are the answers I’ve found on how to install GIT on a MediaTemple box.

  1. ssh root@your-domain.com
  2. rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm
  3. rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
  4. rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
  5. rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm–replacefiles –replacepkgs –oldpackage –nodeps
  6. yum -y update
  7. yum install git

Hope that helps.

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Snagit Screen Capture Software Review

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I started using SnagIt a few years back while working a job at Accenture. We primarily used the tool for grabbing development errors to share back and forth with the team.

Recently I’ve begun using SnagIt 8.1 This is a significant upgrade to the version I previously used. The new dashboard they have which allows me to select what I want to do with the output image on the fly which is a change from previous versions. The other thing that has proven to be really handy is the option to select an entire web page. This allows me to grab a screenshot of of a full page, no matter how long it runs. We do a lot of mock up for customers and this functionality gives us great flexibility

Snagit 8 Screen Capture Software

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TiVo 7.3+ and DHCP

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

TiVo sent me a software update and since that has happened my TiVo service has been unable to communicate with TiVo over the Internet. When I called TiVo’s technical support line their solution was to have me hook up my phone line and run an update that way. This doesn’t work for our house because we don’t have a phone line.

So after talking with TiVo for a while and pouring over their support site the solution became apparent. There is something in the software update for version 7.3+ that requires certain ports to be opened up on your router. For this example I have given my TiVo a static IP address of 192.168.2.40, this will be different for every TiVo device and network.

Start by logging into your router and find your way over to Ports. Again this will be different for every router. You’ll need to open the following ports (TCP and UDP): TiVo Ports to be opened

Once this is completed go ahead and launch the connection service again to TiVo and it should work.

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