A little while ago I was watching an episode of Covert Affairs and it used the term `Wonk'. I had heard the term "Policy Wonk" before in relation to someone employed as a political adviser that had a vast general knowledge of just about everything related to politics...
The latest version of Acrobat Reader has some pretty good security restrictions so an upgrade is a good idea. However if you work on a network which has 512kbps internet connection you don't want to be running Adobe's Down Load Manager 30 times and sucking the files...
Just had to upload voice prompts to an Alcatel OmniPCX. The process: Record the message using the "Sound Recorder" on Windows 7 (which saves to WMA format and it's got a high sample rate and it got 2 channels etc) Upload to a Ubuntu 10.10 Linux box and use ffmpeg to...
Remember the Registered Linux User Counter: LOL.
This link http://android.wordpress.org/2010/05/11/wordpress-for-android-version-1-2-geotagging-and-video-upload/ has the secret sauce for uploading 3gp videos to a wordpress blog namely the PJW Mime Config plugin. After installing PJW Mime Config the mime type you...
Update: The latest version of hplip has the correct entries in the installer/distros.dat file. Go to the aforementioned link and follow the instructions to install on Ubuntu 10.10 and it should work well for you. Just bought a new HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a as my HP...
If you wonder what content your site had or how it looked months and even years ago http://web.archive.org may be the place to visit. I just had a look at my site http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://toggen.com.au/ and there are pages from as far back as 2003. I...
open application/bootstrap.php and make sure your base_url is correct in my case Kohana maps to /~jm/ on my local server Uncomment the 'userguide' => MODPATH.'userguide' module. http://localhost/~jm/index.php/guide
A post from the Dia mailing list: I was asked to deliver some diagrams Dia diagrams I did, in PNG format. I just would imagine the nightmare it would have been to do this under "other" diagramming tools. for D in *.dia; do dia -t png -s 1024x $D; done I just checked...
Just joined a heap of PDF files with pdftk output*.pdf cat output nov2010.pdf and got a 19.5MB PDF file. From here found a working solution to reduce the size of the PDF. gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH...