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How to install wkhtmltopdf on Centos 6

Had some trouble installing wkhtmltopdf on CentOS 6, so here are the commands to do it: Install fonts, then icu, then the CentOS 6 RPM for wkhtmltopdf, then x11-server and urw-fonts!   yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-Type1

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How to reset a Windows 7 password or locked user

Boot into Ubuntu desktop using a USB stick download the .deb file from this page https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/i386/chntpw/0.99.5-0+nmu1 ie http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15221455/chntpw_0.99.5-0+nmu1_i386.deb Click the deb file, it should open the software installer, then click the Install button. Ctrl-Alt T – to open a terminal cd /media/XXXIDENTIFIER/Windows/System32/config

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Deploying from github to a webserver

So you’ve set up an account with Github and have a version of your code/site on your local laptop. This is how to deploy it. Borrowed most of this from deploy.php on Github Step 1 – upload deploy.php to your

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Basics of git

Open a git bash shell. Basic command set up: git init – set up git in the folder git status – what git is tracking git add <filename> – add file to git, in other words ‘stage’ this version of

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SFTP with Filezilla and Putty

In case of IP address restrictions, if you want to connect to SFTP via another host eg.a server, you can do this by SSHing in to the other host. Open a Putty session and connect to your host using SSH.

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