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Some Things to Remember When You Are Very New to the Job

Okay, you just finished university and after a few months of job hunting landed something you like. However, your job is making you stressed. You want to frequently take short breaks at work just to think and compose yourself, you are on the edge and you think you are doing everything slowly while others are doing the same task in much less time than you can. Here are a few things to help you calm down and be more productive.

Basic Drupal Modules You Need (Immediately After Downloading Drupal)

Very frequently when you download Drupal, you repeatedly have to go back to the Drupal website to look for modules that you need. If you setup sites based on Drupal, the following modules list (in no particular order) will be a reminder for you to download. (This list is compiled for Drupal 6)

Delete your Facebook account permanently - A quick howto

Login to your facebook account. Input this URL on the address bar - http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account and follow instructions. Once done, you can go back within 14 days to cancel the deletion if you change your mind.

"Service unavailable" IIS 6.0 Error - Quick Resolution

Short story: If you get "service unavailable" error when trying to access a page hosted on IIS 6.0, login to the server on which IIS is running, open the command line and type in "iisreset " without quotes. That should bring the webpages back.

Filezilla password file location

It is a known fact that when you login to your ftp account using Filezilla a popular open source ftp client, it saves the login and password of the last few entries. If you are like me who uses the client occasionally and tends to forget the password, you will not be out of luck. Filezilla saves password and login information in plain text.

Drupal - Enable Search Box in four steps and under two minutes

I have always used Google Custom Search to search my websites. Yesterday though, I felt I wanted to test Drupal Search Box. Thinking it would be very obvious, I enabled the search module in "admin/build/modules/list" and configured it in "/admin/settings/search". Confident I had configured the module properly, I tested the search box but nothing came out. A quick Google Search said that I needed to fix user permissions. I then went to "admin/user/permissions" and gave permission to anonymous and authenticated users.

How to Increase Followers on Twitter?

Now that you have a Twitter account, you must have followed a lot of people but might be finding it difficult to add your own followers once your email contact list depletes. How do you then proceed about increasing followers on your Twitter account? The simple answer - start talking!

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