Solved: Cannot send outgoing Gmail in Evolution

By Benjy | Feb 7, 2010

Tomcat6 error : jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class

By Benjy | Jan 17, 2010

This is with reference to my previous post here where I had to use a workaround to deploy a .war file for our Hospital Management Software. However as our date to go live approached, I was forced to do additional reading and experiment on the same and here are my conclusions. For your information, we are using Ubuntu Server 9.1 (Selecting LAMP + Tomcat Java Server from tasksel after the base install). the problem is still not sorted out but hopefully will soon be. The war file was deployed in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/. The logs are found at /var/log/tomcat6/

WordPress Warning: Unexpected character in input: ”’ (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/

By Benjy | Sep 11, 2009

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Woke up today morning to find that my Wordpress blog was not working. I got the following as part of the error message when loading the site:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ”’ (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/

Googling the same, I found out that it was caused by either by a worm or virus which steals your Wordpress password and hacks all the index pages on your website.

Doing an NVRAM Init on the HP Laserjet P2014n

By Benjy | Aug 11, 2009

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A user by the name Tom Hartsook had taken the time out to enlighten other users on how to reset the NV(Non-Volatile)RAM on the 8150 printer. Poor Tom himself was allowed to be enlightened only after paying $40 to HP. Thanks Tom for the solution. The same procedure worked for the HP P2014n too.

Internet Explorer is currently running without add ons?

By Benjy | Aug 7, 2009

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I noticed this error message on many computers on our network running Windows XP after upgrading to service pack 3 and Internet explorer (IE) 8. In addition the IE shortcut also displays (No add-ons). I am not very sure whether it is related to the upgrades mentioned above (or some previous upgrade), but it seems [...]

Curing a USB drive that does not open in Windows

By Benjy | Jun 17, 2009

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This works on any removable device detected as a mass storage device -Flash cards, SD cards, Digital Cameras (in mass storage mode), Mp3 players, mobile phones, Pen drives, USB/Firewire and probably eSATA hard drives -actually any removable medium on which you can save a file on!

WordPress error : “Your backup folder might be visible to the public”

By Benjy | Jun 15, 2009

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I got this error on upgrading to Wordpress 2.8. I also had the plugin wp-dbmanager installed. The error message showed up in red after I upgraded the wp-dbmanager plugin. This is what the error message says…