The Dream I want to create a booklet from a PDF file, like so: I've been having trouble when I try to print Booklet format under Linux so I thought I would try to capture the settings I used in a blog post. Configure for Booklet in Adobe Reader & Print to...
Telstra 4G Modems. Telstra Elite 4G USB vs Telstra Mobile Wi-Fi 4G
Telstra Elite 4G USB Moden I have been using a "Telstra Elite 4G USB" Modem to connect a Dell Vostro Laptop running Windows 7 to the internet. I was using an old school VGA connection to connect the laptop to a projector. No problems. Recently I purchased a Dell...
Blame it on the rename (renaming multiple files using a regular expression)
Just discovered the rename utility under Linux Warning: There appears to be two 'rename' utilities one under Debian 6.0.7 works as below and is a Perl utility. The other, which I found on Fedora 19 is part of util-linux, and doesn't work the same way (i.e. it's a lot...
Showing Changes Between Cisco Startup and Running Configs
Yesterday I made a change on a Cisco Switch and forgot to do a copy start run Wanted to know what the differences between the running-config and startup-config are: apf-ma-core-sw01#show archive config differences Contextual Config Diffs: interface GigabitEthernet0/2...
Updating No Name Products
Jaycar Australia sells a product named "4 Port USB 2.0 Networking Server" under the CAT. NO. YN8406. It would be nice if they put a manufacturers link on the page... I needed a Windows 2012 server to be able to access it. But the driver download from Jaycar didn't...
Cisco – Show the configuration of a single interface
The problem (and benefit) of being the single IT guy for a company is that you are responsible for all the IT stuff. But if you only configure a Cisco Switch every blue moon then you are likely to forget some of the simpler command line stuff that makes it easier to...
Andr.Trojan.Zitmo-2 ClamAV blocking Android Updates
I'm using DansGuardian + ClamAV to do webfiltering and scanning. I have my Samsung Galaxy SII connected via Wi-Fi to the network so the traffic is scanned by DG. However this morning got warnings about Andr.Trojan.Zitmo-2. 1 for OpenDocument Reader and the other for...
rsync – I’m doin’ this tonight, You’re probably gonna start a fight.
Using rsync over ssh... Yesterday I had to grab a directory of scripts I've been developing to do a scripted restore of our ERP environment and place them on a new server making sure I deleted anything that wasn't in the remote directory: Remote to Local # logged in...
My LibreOffice Wont Bring the Australian Spell-Check to the Yard
When attempting to run spell-check on LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 on Fedora 19 I hit the F7 key and Spell Check launches and immediately says spellcheck complete. No it idn't. Going into Tools => Options => Language Settings and having a play didn't help. So I did the...
Getting Adobe Reader 9.5.5 Running on 64 bit Fedora 19
Installed AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin Trying to run Adobe Reader on Fedora 19 Run acroread from command prompt displays a series of missing libraries and modules. Follow the yum install commands below to get it working:...
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