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Mapping Websites

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....

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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 /...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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