Problem: |Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1245, in NextButton_clicked self.showAddPrinterPage() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 680, in showAddPrinterPage self.readwriteFaxInformation() File...
James McDonald
CakePHP Javascript Include
I read the documentation. But I must be a slow learner or something. Anyway including javascript into a view using cakephp: I am using an auto baked cake template named index.ctp For me it's located cake_app_dir/views/names/index.ctp To get the javascript script block...
Fedora Fanboy
I know Ubuntu is getting a lot of the kudos recently for being the most popular distro. But Fedora deserves a lot of credit, if not for anything else for this: Presto reduced the update size by 80% (from 222 M to 46 M) It's yum based update system proactively checks...
Multiple lpr.exe Jobs on Windows freezing with Event ID 4227
I wasn’t going crazy… I finally tracked it down. Problem: I was stress testing a new application by submitting lpr.exe jobs from windows clients using lpr.exe I tried it from: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64bit) Using a windows batch file:...
Deceptive sales behaviour is OK. It’s the Internet
I registered a domain a few months back and today have received a physical letter from "Domain Renewal Group" Basically the offer was this: We would like you to renew your domain with us for more than you paid with your last registrar. We know that no person with...
Getting my CakePHP instances working on Fedora 15
I have unzipped the latest version of cakephp into /home/username/public_html/cakephp I have baked an app: cd /home/username/public_html/cakephp/cake/console ./cake bake -app /home/username/public_html/mapdb-dev And then I hit the errors of access denied to the...
Page Load Speed Improvements
I'm noodling away at my websites performance using the Google Page Speed plugin. It recommends losslessly compressing your images using a number of utilities. I mostly upload png format images so I ran the following on my Wordpress content folder to compress the...
Page Speed
Since I moved to a self managed Rackspace Cloud Server. I've been forced to look at all the things that one would normally pay a shared hosting provider to manage. i.e. Security and Performance. So after installing a roll-your-own Apache+Suexec+Mod_Security+MySQL+PHP...
GIMP Cool New Feature
Just playing with the latest development snapshot of GIMP and discovered that it's got a really cool new way of sizing the pencil and brush tools. Before you had to select a 1, 3, 5 etc pixel brush or pencil. Which was annoying because I always seemed to want...
The YUM equivalent to apt-get build-dep
I've been yo'yoing (a word only Words with Friends would accept) between Ubuntu and Fedora and during my periods at the Apogee from one or the other distribution I find I want to do something in one or the other that I know the command of in the other or vice versa....
