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...
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How many bags of cement do I need to make 1 cubic metre of concrete?
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...
Cisco SSL VPN using openconnect demonstration video
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...
Generate Custom XML with Perl CGI.pm
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...
Running around Headless with VirtualBox (Oracle Edition)
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"...
Cisco SSL VPN on Windows XP SP3 – Remove Microsoft JVM and Joyous Shouting Results
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...
Accessing Cisco Clientless SSL VPN from Linux
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...
Aptana 3 Rocks
Been trying to find a free (as in beer) development environment that is easy to use and configure with sensible defaults. Just downloaded Aptana 3 and after 2 days use. We have a winner. Things I like: Downloaded both Windows and Linux clients - Install was easy on...
jQuery [nodeName=ns1:result] syntax no longer works
Just tried to use [nodeName=namespace:node_name] syntax in Firefox and Chrome to get a result message from a soap responseXML and failed while using jquery-1.6.2.min.js and jquery-1.7.1.min.js: This is the contents from my jQuery.ajax "success:" blocks code success :...
Gnome Menu Editor “Alacarte” not working on Fedora 16
Yep it's a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752733 But there is a work-a-round: http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2011/11/24/gnome-menu-editing-fix/
