Annoying problem "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" trying to delete a directory. Didn't want to reboot because I was running a VMWare VM at the time and well real operating systems don't make you reboot every time...
James McDonald
Windows 7zip Fails to Extract a Tar Archive created on Linux
Just had an error in Windows 7-Zip 4.6.5 trying to extract a Linux tar archive. A reasonably large tar archive of 3.76 GB. Got this error: So fell back to using Cygwin Using tar -tf archive.tar allowed me to list the contents of the archive just fine. But attempting...
Australian Online Computer Component Sellers
www.staticice.com.au www.megabuy.com.au www.auspcmarket.com.au www.onlinecomputer.com.au www.eyo.com.au - Based at chipping norton. Reasonably easy to navigate their website. I have purchased 2 or three boxes from them. Found them reliable....
Secure your .htaccess files
Recently discovered an old Joomla website that had been hacked by a remote exploit which changed the contents of .htaccess and redirected the connecting clients away to malicious sites. I don't know how they managed it but I thought that if .htaccess wasn't writeable...
Free GPL3 Licensed CD/DVD Burning Application for Windows
I haven't tried this but don't want to forget about it: http://infrarecorder.org/ You can also use ISORecorder which works well. Not sure of the license on this program. However the website says "Since the very beginning ISO Recorder has been a free tool (for personal...
Gnome-shell or How to make Ubuntu look like an iPhone
Just had a play with the new Gnome 3 gnome-shell. On Ubuntu 10.04: apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell --replace To revert back to the default Ubuntu Window Manager metacity --replace (You may have to also run) gnome-panel & Anyway check it out... I can't wait...
Encourage Comments on Your Blog
I'm fairly strict with what I allow as comments on this blog. But if someone has gone to the effort to post a well-thought-out comment I don't mind if they put a URL in the comment or the associated website field and therefore gain some SEO benefit from it. I have...
If you think you are anonymous on the internet check out this site
A browser tells the site it is visiting about itself: the plugins it is using, the screen resolution it is set at, the fonts available for display, It's preferred language/timezone and many other little details... (OS etc) It does this in order for the remote site to...
Ubuntu 10.04 – OpenOffice 3.2 cannot Spell Check with Australian Default Locale
Despite the oo website saying that the Australian dictionary is include in OO 3.x.x I couldn't spell check my docs. The "Text Language" field of the OpenOffice Spell Checking dialog was missing. So I had to download the OpenOffice Australian Dictionary and install it...
www.zshare.net DNS black holed
Check this out... Watching a video that was hosted on zshare.net... Tried to watch the next one in the series. Firefox kept saying that I had a problem loading the page. A little investigation and I discovered that DNS was replying with the address for localhost...
