Disclaimer I have a VBS script that calls: ' Create object Set XmlDocument = WScript.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0") Set XslStylesheet = WScript.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0") ' load xml doc and stylesheet into above objects ' attempt a transform Result...
gnucash 2.3.3 compile
Ubuntu 9.04 sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash sudo apt-get install libwebkit-dev sudo apt-get install libdbi0-dev sudo apt-get install intltool sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3 sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql wget...
Wipe a Hard Disk using Knoppix
Use shred to wipe your old computers hard drive before putting it in a dumpster Boot from a Knoppix CD and then: # get root su - # Find out what hard disks are installed by using fdisk minus L fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63...
Fedora 11 – So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
So I had Fedora 11 installed for a few weeks... The install program created overlapping partitions which required manual intervention. I have an Intel video chipset and I ran into the screen blanking bug and several other bugs as mentioned in the...
id: cannot find name for group ID 10034
Warning: If you do this you can kill your Samba Install. I take no responsibility if you damage your installation if you action anything on this website. Problem: id: cannot find name for group ID 10034 Background: I think the above error message was from deleting...
Does your IP Address have a Bad Reputation?
I recently moved my company's Administration Offices from one site to another. Simple I thought. Purchase a new internet connection move the email server and reconfigure email to be sent and received on the new internet connection Apparently not. A few days after...
wxPerl Fedora 11
Update: See comment from Dave Cross below for a safer method of installing CPAN modules on an RPM system. The current wxPerl shipped with Fedora is Broken (version 0.91-1.fc11)... Still. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:...
Internet Explorer 6 on Linux Cleanup Script
This is a quick and dirty hack I use to kill the zombie processes left after running an ies4linux install of Internet Explorer 6. #!/bin/sh ps -ef | grep wineserver | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps -ef | grep explorer.exe | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps...
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