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	<description>Open Minded Thinking from the Open Minded Solutions team...</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cleaning the /tmp partition</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2010/03/25/cleaning-the-tmp-partition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tinterweb stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a server running Centos or most other flavours of Linux or you use cPanel/WHM for your box, you will often find that the /tmp partition slowly gets full over time and will eventually get clogged up.  The net result of this is a reduction in the performance of your sites and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have a server running Centos or most other flavours of Linux or you use cPanel/WHM for your box, you will often find that the /tmp partition slowly gets full over time and will eventually get clogged up.  The net result of this is a reduction in the performance of your sites and in some cases, the server will grind to a halt.</p>
<p>It is good practice then to keep on top of this usage on a regular basis. Now before you dive in and just bin everything in the /tmp partition, be careful as often the mysql.sock file is in there if you run MySQL on the box and deleting that can cause you some fun.</p>
<p>The command below will safely clean your /tmp partition:</p>
<p><code>find /tmp -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} \;</code></p>
<p>Now just to break this down, the command is basically looking at the /tmp partition for files that are older than 5 days. The rm -f section means to force the removal of the file/directory (in this instance the file).</p>
<p>Stick the above command in a cron and run it say once a week and your /tmp partition should behave itself.</p>
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		<title>We would like to give you £60</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2010/03/22/we-would-like-to-give-you-60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yep that&#8217;s right, we would like to give you up to £60 for every sale you refer to us though the Open Mind Commerce affiliate scheme. Sound good to you? Then read on&#8230;
The Program
Dead simple this one, we will give you 10% of the excluding VAT value of all sales generated by you referring customers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep that&#8217;s right, we would like to give you <strong>up to £60</strong> for every sale you refer to us though the <a href="https://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk/affiliates/">Open Mind Commerce affiliate scheme</a>. Sound good to you? Then read on&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>The Program</strong><br />
Dead simple this one, we will give you <strong>10%</strong> of the excluding VAT value of all sales generated by you referring customers to our site. This could result in up to <strong>£60 in commission</strong> for customers who purchase a license from us along with our bespoke design service.</p>
<p>At the the very least you would earn £8.90 if they just bought a single license so your commission could quickly add up to quite a bit!</p>
<p>Because we&#8217;re lovely people we&#8217;ll not only also give you <strong>£20 as a thank you for <a href="https://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk/affiliates/signup.php">signing up</a></strong> but if you refer a new affiliate to us through your link, you will get <strong>20% of their earnings as well</strong>!</p>
<p>The program is completely <a href="https://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk/affiliates/signup.php">free of charge to join</a> and you can start adding a range of banners and text links to your site straight away&#8230;</p>
<p>So to summarise:</p>
<p>   1. You earn <strong>10%</strong> for every completed sale<br />
   2. We <strong>give you £20</strong> just for signing up<br />
   3. We also give you <strong>20% of all earnings</strong> that your referred affiliates generate</p>
<p>Signing up is very simple, <a href="https://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk/affiliates/signup.php">click the link</a>, fill out the form and you&#8217;re done&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>The Nitty Gritty</strong><br />
Just a couple of points to make things clear&#8230;</p>
<p>   1. Commissions are based on the <strong>ex. VAT value</strong> of the sale<br />
   2. Payments are made on the 1st of the month via PayPal or cheque as long as you have at least £100 &#8220;in the bank&#8221;<br />
   3. You earn commission on referrals up to <strong>90 days</strong> after they click the link even if the customer visits via another affiliate<br />
   4. You may not refer yourself for purchases, sorry!</p>
<p>So you&#8217;ve read about the program now do something about it. <a href="https://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk/affiliates/signup.php">Join today</a>, earn yourself £20 for five minutes work and start driving money out of our pocket and into yours! </p>
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		<title>Go on, one more drink won&#8217;t kill you will it?</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/12/17/go-on-one-more-drink-wont-kill-you-will-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/12/17/go-on-one-more-drink-wont-kill-you-will-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Archery Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nah of course it won&#8217;t.  Oh wait one minute, yes it will.
Watch this video and then tell me it&#8217;s OK to drive under the influence of anything:
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/11/video-australian-transport-accident-commission-celebrates-20-ye/#continued
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nah of course it won&#8217;t.  Oh wait one minute, yes it will.</p>
<p>Watch this video and then tell me it&#8217;s OK to drive under the influence of anything:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/11/video-australian-transport-accident-commission-celebrates-20-ye/#continued">http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/11/video-australian-transport-accident-commission-celebrates-20-ye/#continued</a></p>
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		<title>Open Mind Commerce Featured as Cart of the Week by Practical eCommerce</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/12/11/open-mind-commerce-featured-as-cart-of-the-week-by-practical-ecommerce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/12/11/open-mind-commerce-featured-as-cart-of-the-week-by-practical-ecommerce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release
Open Mind Commerce, an established eCommerce solution provider based in the UK, today announced that the product has been featured as &#8220;Cart of the Week&#8221; by Practical eCommerce. (http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1449-Cart-of-the-Week-Open-Mind-Commerce)
During an in-depth interview, MD Phil Williams gives an insight into the system as well as describes plans for the future of the software.
Phil Williams [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>For Immediate Release</strong></p>
<p>Open Mind Commerce, an established eCommerce solution provider based in the UK, today announced that the product has been featured as &#8220;Cart of the Week&#8221; by Practical eCommerce. (<a href="http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1449-Cart-of-the-Week-Open-Mind-Commerce">http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1449-Cart-of-the-Week-Open-Mind-Commerce</a>)</p>
<p>During an in-depth interview, MD Phil Williams gives an insight into the system as well as describes plans for the future of the software.</p>
<p>Phil Williams commented &#8220;Being featured on Practical eCommerce is big news for us as they are a highly respected organisation and it gave us a perfect platform to talk about our product as well as spread the word about the system.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition, the company also announced that v1.4.1 of it&#8217;s software is released today and advanced development is in place for v2.0, codenamed The Novus Project, which will feature a complete rewrite of the system making it one of the most flexible and powerful commercial eCommerce platforms on the market.</p>
<p><strong>About Open Mind Commerce</strong><br />
Open Mind Commerce is a trading division of Open Minded Solutions Limited. We are a full service ISP established since 2004 and we are based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Open Mind Commerce is our flagship product and allows SMEs to quickly and easily trade online.</p>
<p><strong>Web: </strong><a href="http://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk">http://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk</a><br />
<strong>Tel:</strong> 08456 445 789</p>
<p><strong>About Practical eCommerce</strong><br />
Practical eCommerce was launched in July 2005 by Kerry and Joy Murdock in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. Its mission from the start has been to provide down-to-earth articles and advice to help smaller businesses succeed online.</p>
<p>Web: <a href="http://www.practicalecommerce.com">http://www.practicalecommerce.com</a></p>
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		<title>Very chuffed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/11/23/very-chuffed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Archery Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well last week I shot my first full Portsmouth round using my new(ish) compound bow.  For the non-archers, the Portsmouth round is 60 arrows at a range of 20 yards onto a 60cm face.  The thing is that compound archers, to score a 10, have a smaller inner gold to go for which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well last week I shot my first full Portsmouth round using my new(ish) compound bow.  For the non-archers, the Portsmouth round is 60 arrows at a range of 20 yards onto a 60cm face.  The thing is that compound archers, to score a 10, have a smaller inner gold to go for which is about 2 inches across.  Everything else in the gold is a nine and then down from there&#8230;</p>
<p>Now I managed to score a very reasonable I thought 496 out of a possible 600 which for my first full round I felt was quite an achievement!  Plenty of room for improvement (as in the 104 points I didn&#8217;t get) but it gives me a base to work from.</p>
<p>As Billy (my compound compatriot and unofficial coach) pointed out, get all 60 in at least the gold and you score 540 with the 10&#8217;s being bonus. Seeing as the 9 zone is a good 6 inches across, hopefully it won&#8217;t be too long before I get to that stage&#8230;</p>
<p>At least when I shoot in the Scotland Eastern championships held in Jan. 2010 I shouldn&#8217;t get the wooden spoon and make myself look a tit at this rate <img src='http://www.openmindblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Exporting SSL certificates from cPanel/Apache</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/11/23/exporting-ssl-certificates-from-cpanelapache/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/11/23/exporting-ssl-certificates-from-cpanelapache/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite surprised today to find that there is no built in facility to export a SSL certificate through WHM/cPanel.  We needed to move the certificate to our Windows network from our Linux box and it wasn&#8217;t as straightforward as you may think.
Still after a bot of googling we came up with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was quite surprised today to find that there is no built in facility to export a SSL certificate through WHM/cPanel.  We needed to move the certificate to our Windows network from our Linux box and it wasn&#8217;t as straightforward as you may think.</p>
<p>Still after a bot of googling we came up with the following steps to create a pfx file which is simple to import into IIS on Windows:</p>
<p><strong>Step 1 - Get the key/crt files</strong><br />
You can grab these two files by going to cPanel > Manage SSL hosts.  Just select the domain you are exporting and cPanel will then display the key and certificate (crt) files</p>
<p><strong>Step 2 - Create the files through SSH</strong><br />
Now this part may be un-required but I couldn&#8217;t locate the path to the files so I simply logged into SSH as root and entered the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>[root@host ~]#nano domain.key</p>
<p><copy and paste the key file into your ssh console></p>
<p>Save and exit (CTRL+X confirm save)</copy></p></blockquote>
<p>Now you need to repeat this for the certificate file as well.</p>
<p><strong>Step 3 - Create the PFX file for export</strong><br />
OK now you have your crt and key files you need to create a pfx file for the export.  For this we just use OpenSSL with the command:</p>
<blockquote><p>[root@host ~]#openssl pkcs12 -export -out /home/pathtodomain/yourdomain.pfx -inkey yourdomain.key -in yourdomain.crt</p>
</blockquote>
<p>You will be asked to set a password and also confirm that password.  This will create the pfx file in the domain root.</p>
<p>You can download the generated pfx file and import into IIS.</p>
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		<title>First and most likey last &#8220;Robin Hood&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/30/first-and-most-likey-last-robin-hood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/30/first-and-most-likey-last-robin-hood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well on Wednesday after returning to the sport after a break of 18 years, I shot my very first and most likely last robin hood at 20 yards using a club bow and arrows!  

It was definitely more luck than judgement and after being informed I could keep the arrows as long as I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well on Wednesday after returning to the sport after a break of 18 years, I shot my very first and most likely last robin hood at 20 yards using a club bow and arrows! <img src='http://www.openmindblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><img src="http://www.openmindhosting.co.uk/_uploads/robin_hood.jpg" alt="Robin Hood" /></p>
<p>It was definitely more luck than judgement and after being informed I could keep the arrows as long as I shoot my own equipment from now on, the club were dead chuffed for me!</p>
<p>Personally I couldn&#8217;t quite grasp the significance of the event as the other guys gathered round with jaws agape but I guess it&#8217;s quite cool!</p>
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		<title>Oi! UPS! Where&#8217;s me flipping stuff!!</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/28/oi-ups-wheres-me-flipping-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/28/oi-ups-wheres-me-flipping-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OK getting impatient now, UPS are supposed to be making a delivery to me today.  Their site tracker says it&#8217;s currently on a van somewhere in Edinburgh.
What it won&#8217;t tell me that &#8220;Bob the driver&#8221; is currently on an extended lunch break, smoking copious amounts of nicotine and supping tea.  So Bob if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK getting impatient now, UPS are supposed to be making a delivery to me today.  Their site tracker says it&#8217;s currently on a van somewhere in Edinburgh.</p>
<p>What it won&#8217;t tell me that &#8220;Bob the driver&#8221; is currently on an extended lunch break, smoking copious amounts of nicotine and supping tea.  So Bob if you are reading this, remove your thumb from where it shouldn&#8217;t be, get your arse in gear and deliver my stuff!!!</p>
<p>Granted he has until 7pm to deliver so knowing my luck he will roll up at 6:59:59 with a grin on his smug face.  At this point I shall have to resist the urge to show him a new use for a 30&#8243; carbon arrow (he&#8217;s delivering archery bits n bibs you see)</p>
<p>Calm&#8230;</p>
<p>Patience&#8230;</p>
<p>Etc&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Hello Mum</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/28/hello-mum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/28/hello-mum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I suppose I&#8217;d better say hello as I recently found out that my mum reads the blog.  This worries me slightly as I can no longer swear, post rude cartoons or do anything else that might offend &#8220;she who must be obeyed&#8221; so I&#8217;d better keep this clean from now on  
Noce [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I suppose I&#8217;d better say hello as I recently found out that my mum reads the blog.  This worries me slightly as I can no longer swear, post rude cartoons or do anything else that might offend &#8220;she who must be obeyed&#8221; so I&#8217;d better keep this clean from now on <img src='http://www.openmindblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Noce to know that I have more than one blog reader though!</p>
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		<title>Installing ColdFusion MX7 on Windows 7 Professional</title>
		<link>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/28/installing-coldfusion-mx7-on-windows-7-professional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.openmindblog.com/index.php/2009/10/28/installing-coldfusion-mx7-on-windows-7-professional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OK this stumped me for a while but if you are trying to install ColdFusion MX7 on Windows 7 Professional and the installer is constantly quitting with the error &#8220;javaw.exe has stopped working&#8221; then try the following:
1) Extra all the content of the CF MX7 installation to a spare folder on your drive
2) Right-click the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK this stumped me for a while but if you are trying to install ColdFusion MX7 on Windows 7 Professional and the installer is constantly quitting with the error &#8220;javaw.exe has stopped working&#8221; then try the following:</p>
<p>1) Extra all the content of the CF MX7 installation to a spare folder on your drive<br />
2) Right-click the CFMX7Installer.exe file<br />
3) Select &#8220;Troubleshoot Compatibility&#8221; from the context menu<br />
3) Select &#8220;Try recommended settings&#8221; on the next screen</p>
<p>This should force the installer to run in Windows XP mode and will allow it to continue.</p>
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