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How to backup Delicious bookmarks

should they ever decide to go away

curl --user gregcain:password -o myDelicious.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all'

from rentzsch.com (original link broken.)

Sending mail from CentOS on Slicehost

When I first set up CainManor on slicehost, e-mail wasn’t working. The solution, based on this thread, was to install postfix.

apt-get install postfix  -Install postfix

edit /etc/postfix/main.cf

mydomain = cainmanor.com
myorigin = cainmanor.com
mynetworks_style = host

service postfix start -start the service to see if it works as expected.

chkconfig –list postfix – make sure it will start on boot.  The default install takes care of this

WordPress 2.5 on a fresh CentOS 5.0 install – Part 2

Now that we have the OS ready for the wordpress install, let’s finish up…

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WordPress 2.5 on a fresh CentOS 5.0 install – part 1

I’m doing this on my new host – Slicehost (more about that later.) It’s VPS, which gives you a clean install of your choice of Linux Operating Systems (they have seven or eight choices.) In this case, I’m using CentOS, since it’s close to what we use at work.

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