I just started copying some files from a Windows XP Pro VMWare VM to a Redhat 3.1 Server VM hosted on their own private network on a VMWare ESXi 4.x server. Using WinSCP from the XP Pro Client with SSH as the transfer protocol I was seeing ~5,000KB/s. So I stopped the...
Our humble timber cottage has an old tin roof. We can't afford to get it replaced at the moment but have gotten it pressure washed and painted in Shale Grey Colour. So now we are waiting for Google Maps to update it's...
I have for several months been giving Fedora 13 a go as my primary OS. Fedora is what it is— A beta release for a product that will be rebadged and released when it's finished. As a distribution it's not really playing in the same league as Ubuntu. The polish...
Attempting to install Bluefish on Windows XP Pro SP3 I went here http://code.google.com/p/bluefish-win/ Which sent me to here http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefish/files/ Which gave me a download link here...
If you have an account with a webhost which allows you to run multiple domains (or even `unlimited' domains ala Dreamhost). You may be tempted to run multiple websites under the default account that is provided by the hosting company. But while convenient, this has a...
Ran into a problem with a jQuery AJAX script that parses returned XML. It wouldn't work on Google Chrome when looking for a namespaced xml node using jQuery.find(). Apparently this (xml namespaces) can cause jQuery some minor heartburn but it's not a show stopper. A...
My home computer is a P4. P4's are like 6+ years old. However it's still suitable for what I use it for. In fact it's performance has been improving of late. Why? Linux is maturing and the people who are designing the entire GNU/Linux eco-system are optimizing. Here...
Dia is a great Open Source diagramming program that has extensive `shape' libraries for a lot of different applications (I use it for drawing network diagrams and flow-charts). When using Dia one of the questions that arises fairly regularly is: Is it possible to...
This is the simplest answer I could find for a client needing to POST an XML SOAP message to a server in another domain. Not sure on the security because the POST isn't validated so it just passes on whatever the client sends. libcurl has a lot of options
So most day's I'm an infrastructure and apps guy. Which means a bit of: Cisco Windows ERP And a heap of general IT So then comes a long a project which requires coding... And because my ERP spits out and receives XML and Internet browsers are very friendly with the...