If you want to add comments / notes and highlight text in Linux with a native PDF viewer Okular is your huckleberry Note: I found that you have to do a File ==> Save As and resave PDF documents annotated with Okular in order to be able to view the annotations in...
PDF: How to Convert from VBox to KVM Found these instructions lurking in my home directory but better to be here as I will find it easier
http://blog.helixoide.com/blog/2013/04/09/converting-from-ext4-to-btrfs-on-fedora/ When you run the dracut step to recreate the initramfs image you can check for the correct module using: [root@pc01 boot]# cd /boot [root@pc01 boot]# zcat initramfs-`uname -r`.img |...
I wanted to find some files that I downloaded in the last 5 days: Basically the below command says find all files in the current directory and below with a changed time (-ctime) of less than 5 days from now. [rupert@qad_server dtlive]$ find . -ctime -10 . ./TMP6934.02...
Recently I have been reading "The 4-Hour Work Week". Until I read it, I had made a habit of reading the news: au.news.yahoo.com, maitlandmercury.com.au, news.com.au, ninemsn.com.au, abc.net.au/news and sbs.com.au. With the exception of ABC and SBS which tend to...
Some recent reading I have found interesting. Techniques for Fixing Bad Habits Why do we seem to find our selves repeating behaviour we have made a mental note to avoid? Habits both good and bad shape our lives. Here is how to identify and modify our...
Problem: Added a CentOS 6.5 server to a Windows SBS 2011 domain. And discovered that I got an empty reply when running: # where jamesmcd is your Windows domain username getent passwd jamesmcd If this is the case you will not be able to use your domain account and...
kinit adminuser@DOMAIN.LOCAL kinit: Cannot find KDC for requested realm while getting initial credentials Changed these [libdefaults] default_realm = DOMAIN.LOCAL dns_lookup_realm = true dns_lookup_kdc = true probably best to use authconfig-tui to modify Kerberos...
Imagine some typical manual business processes: You have been running a business for a few years and every morning a fax arrives from a customer. You take that fax and then sit in front a of a computer to key the order into your system. One day you deliver too much...
Just discovered one of the biggest supermarket chains in Australia - Woolworths, are using Google Mail now. [user@mypc01 ~]$ dig -t mx woolworths.com.au ; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-rl.13207.22-P2-RedHat-9.9.3-5.P2.fc19 <<>> -t mx woolworths.com .au ... ;;...
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