James McDonald

This is from here http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showpost.php?p=128859&postcount=4 Windows components and services depend on time synchronization. For example, the Kerberos V5 authentication protocol on a Windows Server 2003 family domain has a default time...

User just sent me an ai file they couldn't open (because we don't have an Adobe Illustrator license). Found that Gimp does the job nicely. Just needed to set the resolution up a bit (to 600dpi) to get a nice hi-res image to forward on for the user. Best thing about...

uptime 00:09:19 up 241 days, 21:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Nice to see that the infrastructure Rackspace is running is solid enough to give 241 days of uptime. I wish I could have a tour of the data centre and have a look at how it's done...

The title is just a random sound-bite I picked up while channel surfing... Her: It's not all about you. Him: Yes it is, I'm a narcissist. I can't even give you a hint on it's providence... I think maybe ABC or SBS...

I didn't know if you needed x32 bit ghostscript even though it was running on a x64 OS. I'm here to report that it works with the 64 bit version of GhostScript. I just went into File ==> Preferences... ==> External Tools and entered the path "C:\Program...

Recently in anticipation of upgrading to Small Business Server 2011 I installed all the service packs and patches to make my SBS2003 Server upgrade ready. I must have installed an Exchange Service pack because the external out of office replys stopped working. Either...

If you have a bunch of WMA files that don't have the correct meta-data associated with them and therefore don't show up correctly in Rhthymbox. To edit the tags kid3 does the job well. In Fedora just: yum install kid3 done.  

I have a table holding the names of `items` to be loaned out mysql> select * from items; +----+-------+ | id | name | +----+-------+ | 1 | item1 | | 2 | item2 | | 3 | item3 | | 4 | item4 | | 5 | item5 | +----+-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) I have another...