While installing PHPList on a GoDaddy server for a client of mine, I was frustrated to receive an ‘Internal Server Error’ / ’500 Error’. Following the directions at this post fixed it easy enough. You just need to delete the following line form your .htaccess file in your PHPList install directory:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

Some times use after recovering an entire hard drive image, you may want to mount a partition that was on that disk, instead of apply it to another drive. In those times, you can use the following commands:

First, you will want to find out where the partition starts:

sfdisk -l -uS image_file.dd

The -uS flag to sfdisk forces the output to be given in sectors (512 bytes), so the number you see there will need to be multiplied by 512.

Then:

mount -oloop,offset=xxxx image.dd /mnt/point

That’s it!

I just installed Drivel, which seems to be a pretty nice Linux application to post entries to your blog right from your desktop. It supports a few different blogging technologies, including WordPress, Drupal, blogger.com, and livejournal. I’m hoping having this around will reduce the amount of effort in making a blog post, and hence will start blogging more.