On this page you will be able to find a collection of various How To’s I’ve put together.

  • Upgrade WordPress without FTP info

    I help maintain a site that runs WordPress, but we don’t have ftp access to the box it runs on.  So it makes doing WordPress upgrades a little difficult sometimes.  I came across a site that had a little work around for this though.  All you need to do is add “define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);” to the end…Read…

  • Lab Environment

    At work there are several of us that have wanted to be able to setup a lab environment for testing powershell scripts, configuration changes, training, and other things.  The way we’ve done it in the past is to run one or two VM’s on our desktops.  The problem with that is you usually can’t have…Read…

  • Install NRPE on Linux

    1. Go to: https://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/268-installing-the-xi-linux-agent 2. Download the latest linux nrpe agent. 3. Extract the agent using: tar xzvf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz 4. CD to linux-nrpe-agent 5. Type: ./fullinstall 6. Provide the IP address of your Nagios server. 7. Add the server to Nagios.

  • Ubuntu Chrome Kiosk Setup

    So at work we have a couple of computer setup in a public area that can be used to access our web site.  In the past we have used Windows XP and locked them down.  However, with support for XP coming to an end we needed to come up with another solution.  I wanted to…Read…

  • Install Windows 7/8 from USB

    Here is a link to a document I put together for preparing a USB drive for installing Windows 7 or 8. PDF Document