Just spent an unproductive morning try to get the Ghost Boot Wizard (version 11.5.1.2266) to copy a winpe image to a Vebatim 4GB USB Key (NG04G2520005743DML) I would go through the wizard and when I got to the end and it said "Preparing Disks" GBW would exit - no...
Just installed recoll ( a desktop search tool ) and it complains about heaps of missing "helper" applications. I couldn't install pstotext unless I add a repository as listed at the above link. I also found that the missing helper list is located in...
On 8 June 2007 the Pasha Bulker ran aground in Newcastle. Just found these photos so thought I would post them.
On Fedora 17 install the menu editor program named alacarte. yum install alacarte Launch it and find dia under Graphics and click properties In the properties window edit the lauch command to include --integrated as shown Now when you launch Dia you should have nicely...
Update: Not a fan of Umbrello has a lot of features for UML but too many functionality gotcha's and bugs (from a user stand point I can't comment on it's UML implementation because I'm a newb on UML) I ran into the can't a Anchor a Note to an Activity with error...
My most favourite open source application QCAD is now at version 3. I buy a license for the "Pro" version because it's just a fantastic easy to use product. At my $DAYJOB today I found out QCAD 3 (I was using RC5) can open dwg files so now it's as useful to me as the...
Edit /etc/wgetrc for global change or ~/.wgetrc for a per user change and add: http_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 https_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 ftp_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 Where 192.168.50.22 is the IP Address of your proxy server and 3128 is...
Maitland publishes some standard drawings which may be very handy for people such as myself who are trying to get a handle on the requirements for improvements and additions to a house. To get them: Go to Maitland Councils Website Hover over Planning & Development...
When I visit Symantecs Licensing Portal it seems to vary it's performance between slow and unavailable. Today I get the above error message when I use the Redeem My Voucher Link. Fix: Clear your browser cache, re-start your browser and it works. But I don't understand...
I want to start creating web apps that can be used on iPhone and/or Android based devices. HTML5 apparently is the way to go. Only I'm tired of using vi or bluefish so I'm hoping that there are some Linux friendly products that will allow a little WYSIWYG editing. For...