Archive: July, 2009

CentOSCubes error message

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

After an update to a CentOS system, I was presented with the following error message on the login screen: Cannot open theme file /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/CentOSCubes It wasn’t a critical error – more of an annoyance. Dismissing the message box displayed a basic-looking KDM that allowed me to log in. Problem The problem on my system was that the default [...]

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XAMPP local testing server

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I had a need for a local testing server on my Windows desktop so I was about to install part of the LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) when I stumbled upon XAMPP, an all-in-one package offering these (and a lot more too) in a fast install. Local server up in minutes I have to say [...]

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