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Hi, When logged into my Amazon EC2 instances as user ec2-user, I cannot edit/delete files in my web root folder. All files are owned by apache:apache, and I have added ec2-user to the apache group. What am I missing? To sum up: [ec2-user@xxx ~]$ groups ec2-user ec2-user : ec2-user wheel …

Hi all, I'm trying to create my Wordpress plugin admin page using metabox's. Using add_meta_box() and do_meta_boxes() I can create the boxes and they nicely reposition, however I am struggling to find a way to save the order. I was wondering if there was a callback for when a reordering …

Hi, In Windows 7 (and possibly older, can't remember off the top of my head), you can select which icons appear in your taskbar and which ones are only visible if you click the up arrow. Is there a way to set this default programatically? If it's relevant, my current …

Hi all, I've been looking into NoSQL (particularily MangoDB) and am liking what I see. I have one clarification though: If I'm gathering data about a particular "thing" on a daily basis, should I have one document per "thing" and add the new data to it every day? Or should …

Hi all, I want to create a separate class in my C++ application which creates a dialog from a resource, similar to extending CDialog in MFC, however I would like to avoid using MFC. For example, I would like to be able to run the following code in my WinMain …

Hi all, I'm sure this is a n00b question, but I can't seem to get my head around it! I have a 4 BYTE array which I want to display as a decimal value. For example, in the array it contains the hex values: 00 05 7d a4, and I …

Hi all, I'm currently developing an application in QT, and using QML for the user interface. Using QDeclarativeView I am able to create custom objects and access their members from within QML (using the below code), however I am stuck when I want to access the methods from just within …

Hi guys, Hope you can help (and hope I can explain my problem OK!) I am designing a sports site which takes three values from a user to input match details: a date (text input), a versus (text input), and if the match is home or away (radio buttons). Several …

Basically I am trying to learn multithreading in C++. Platform: Windows XP. So far so good but I want to make sure I'm using mutex correctly. It compiles and runs as expected, but just wanted to make sure I use the CreateMutex() function in the correct place. Thanks! Here's my …