Kept getting prompted for a username and password when trying to connect to a samba share despite the permissions being correct. And got this error message in the samba logs: [2011/10/31 13:54:16.781238, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:454(reply_spnego_kerberos) Username...

If you are wondering where the Bluefish Function Reference is hiding. You need to enable the Info Browser plugin. Goto Edit ==> Preferences ==> Plugins, check the Info Browser checkbox, click OK and then restart Bluefish

Fedora 16 take a bow... Gnome 3 makes me feel like I own an Apple. I feel really smart and stylish using it. Even better is the bump from the 2.* series kernels up to 3. However progress means change and for years I've been comfortable with chkconfig --list to display...

Just downloaded and spun up Fedora 16 Beta I've been having heaps of trouble with my sound on this box. But the new Fedora 16 Beta fixes the sound issues. No more background hiss.

I have been attempting to print 4" x 6" photos from my Fedora 15 install and the images (which I have edited with GIMP) have terrible pixelated edges near any fine detail where I have selected the surrounding region and filled with another colour. I was printing to...

Trying to get PHP to return the file type of an xcf image and it stubbornly refused to return what I wanted. Still can't get it to output image/x-xcf but I'm starting to think the compiled in magic data base of PHP doesn't include it and I haven't successfully loaded...

It works from the command line. Why doesn't it work in Cron? ...insert head scratching here... Firstly run your cron job often so you can get some output. Use common sense here, obviously if the cron scripts takes 5 minutes to run then you would bump up the frequency...

They said "James we need someone to check a website and make sure everything is OK over the weekend". Hmm OK... I'd rather not be tied to a laptop or hang around home so why not send an email with a screenshot to my Android HTC Desire. Search, search, search: And then...

The Problem: I was trying to do a mkdir using php in a cakephp file upload script and I got an error: 2011-10-18 21:55:48 Warning: Warning (2): mkdir() [http://php.net/function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in [/home/user/public_html/mapdb-dev/app_controller.php,...

# add array('type'=>'file') to the Form->create method < ?php echo $this->Form->create('Map', array('type'=>'file'));?> < ?php __('Add Map'); ?> < ?php # most fields are just normal automagic text/numeric/boolean fields echo $this->Form->input('name'); echo...