I have a deep and abiding annoyance with online loan calculators. I blame them for being: Clumsy Restricted Self-Interested So when I found that Open/Libre Office has good support for calculating repayments it has come as a relief....

If you get a web page with "Advert blocked" on it, it's not very descriptive, but basically it's dansguardian (a web filter) stomping on an Advertisement: To find out more about the problem I changed the dansguardian report setting "reportinglevel = 3" to...

Problem: Running wupdmgr on a Windows XP Pro SP3 Box throws "[Error number: 0x800A01B6]." in Internet Explorer Trying wupdmgr on several Windows XP Pro Boxes and the error is duplicated. Cause: Cisco ASA firewall configured to do ActiveX Filtering blocking the Windows...

Just attempted to run qcad and got an error as follows [me@mypc qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86]$ ./qcad ./qcad: error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Found that my 64 bit version of libXrandr on...

I just had the following experience: I sat down in front of my desktop computer which isn't connected to the internet at the moment. My HTC Desire Android based phone told me it needed a recharge so I plugged it in to my computer for a bit using it's USB cable. It...

I'm playing with upgrading a Ubuntu 9.04 installation and ran into the "An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool." and I had no idea what version `lucid' was. To find the version of the currently running Linux box use lsb_release -a...

How to set your Ethernet card back to eth0 I have a Ubuntu 9.04 JEOS (Just Enough OS) Virtual Machine running under Virtualbox. I have upgraded my host machine several times, converted the VM from VMWare to Virtualbox, moved the VM from one disk to another, created a...

Symptoms: Go to twitter.com and try to browse to a user profile and you get an "Aw, Snap" page. Resolution: Using information at http://blog.randell.ph/2011/06/11/fix-for-aw-snap-while-loading-twitter-in-fedora-15-with-selinux-enforcing-enabled/ Do: Fix the current...

Put here for posterity. How to make sure standard error and std out go to the bit bucket. # crontab line 0 16 * * 1-5 /home/batch/getShipping/getShippingDetails.sh > /dev/null 2>&1