At work I have a range of admin tools that I install on every new workstation that I get and after 10 and more years of clicking next and watching progress bars I think I would like to reduce the number of times I have to install stuff. It's counter productive to...
Saturday very early in the morning we had a electricity substation blow nearby. It caused a power outage not only at my home but 6kms away at work. The outage was for long enough that the UPS's didn't hold the servers up, and some of them didn't come up again cleanly....
If you are after an easy to use 2D CAD program for Windows / Linux. Try QCAD from http://www.ribbonsoft.com. Currently at version 2.2.x but a newer version QCAD 3 is in release candidate phase. At under 100$ AUD for a license it's good value. And with modest CAD...
After the last updates on Fedora 16 (x64) I have been suffering from really bad screen flicker. My PC has these specs. Specifically a "ASUS GeForce GTS 450 Direct CU Overclocked 1GB" Graphics card driving a BenQ T2200HD. The symptoms are that when I alt+tabbed between...
Currently (Dec 2011) doing fence posts and some small concrete pads around the house so I need to self mix the concrete Here is a good example of what is required from the "General Purpose Cement Product Data Sheet" on Boral's Site General Purpose Cement Product Data...
The openconnect package summarizes itself as the "Open client for Cisco AnyConnect VPN". Here is a youtube video showing an openconnect session being started from the command line: http://www.youtube.com/embed/zBEUylO12vI I tried creating a connection via the...
I want to output custom XML without any HTML or DTD tags using CGI.pm Here is my hack to get what I'm after: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard -any); # use the -any option to turn on custom tags # e.g. I can use $r->item("Item Content") to create # Item...
This is a script I use to start up a headless instance of virtualbox Run as root but it fires the vm up as the user you use virtualbox as. #!/bin/sh # Output of "vboxmanage list vms" # #"Windows XP Pro" {5998c1ff-f354-4d7d-b36d-987090351cb6} #"JMITS LSMB"...
I have a Windows XP Pro SP3 Virtualbox VM that I have been using to test connectivity to a Cisco ASA 5510 SSL VPN. Problem: Using Internet Explorer 8 and trying to launch an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) session. It created a memory error and then Internet Explorer...
At home I run Linux pretty much exclusively so anything I do at work tends to run the cross platform compatible path. When configuring a 'clientless' VPN on the ASA you install Cisco provided java plugins for Remote Desktop, ICA (Citrix), VNC and SSH/Telnet access...