A list of on-line map websites: Nearmap.org - (Sadly this has become a paid for service - They do have single user licenses. Good but pricey) In Australia regular over-flight photos high def. Uses Openstreetmap.org's streetmaps so streetnames are usually missing....
James McDonald
VBScript Send Fax
I googled "VBScript Send Fax" today and got an excellent example: http://sandlerco.com/VBScript.htm http://sandlerco.com/fspfaq.htm Update: Microsoft Documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686957(v=VS.85).aspx But the site seems to be bouncing /...
Quick and Dirty fix for Google Chromium trying to Open all attachments using Acrobat Reader
Versions: Google Chrome: 14.0.835.163 Acrobat Reader: 9.4.2 Fedora 15 current patches as at 22/9/2011 This seems to reset Google Chrome so it opens the correct mkdir ~/tmp # create a temporary directory so you # can recover if it causes unexpected side effects # move...
PHP –with-gd required for WordPress Image Upload Resizing
Problem: If your resized image radio button options aren't available when you try to upload/insert an image into a wordpress post. Then you probably don't have gd enabled in PHP. Symptom: Work-a-round: Create a thumbnail of your image locally to the size you want and...
Eureka moment on transfer speeds
I have a Cisco Catalyst 100mbps switch between my source and destination workstations. I'm trying to copy about 26.1GB across and it's going to take circa 40minutes. My question is: Why am I only getting 11.2MB/s when I have a 100mbps switch? Quoting here I get an...
VMPlayer Command Line Options
Usage: vmplayer.exe [OPTION...] [--] [configuration file] where OPTIONS are: -v show program version -X Enter full screen mode when a virtual machine is powered on -U Enter Unity when a virtual machine is powered on -s NAME=VALUE Set Preference variable NAME to...
Why are news websites so prone to hosting mailware – SBS.com.au
The last time I noticed this happen is when our local radio station 2HD had a script inclusion to something noxious. Anyway IT security is important.
Securing SSH
Looking at my auth.log on an internet accessible server. I notice that there has been 3071 unsuccesful login attempts since last the logs rotated. cat /var/log/auth.log | grep invalid | grep ssh | wc 3071 49136 327541 # does any one know how to match two arguments...
Hard Disk Partitioning Fail
Just had a situation where I ran palimpsest and tried to carve another partition onto a 2TB disk which I had only put a single 500GB partition on. To cut a long story short I ended up losing the current partition on the disk which was also my /home. So not fun. In the...
Copy dot (hidden) files and normal files from one directory to another in Linux
Something that has annoyed me for the longest time. I have just downloaded a zip ball of the latest development code of gallery 3. Typically you unzip the zipball and it creates randomly named folder e.g. "gallery-gallery3-dfbfe09" then you have to copy the contents...
