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VMWare Remote Commands

When you want to run a VMWare Server 2.0 Virtual Machine hosted on a remote Linux box these commands might come in handy. # list your currently running VM's vmrun -h http://localhost:8222/sdk -P 902 -T server -u yourvmadminuser -p 'yourvmadminpassword' list Total...

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GMS Property Care

Just finished a Joomla website for a friend GMS Property Care. He does Carpet Cleaning near Maitland and specialized stain removal. Posting here is a way of getting it published on Google... So web search engines please crawl on over and have a look. And if you're...

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New Computer Time – Online PC Sellers

I am in the market for a new home-business desktop system. I currently have a P4 3.0GHz with 2GB RAM and embedded Video. My brother bought me a second monitor and we haven't been able to get a compatible video card to drive two monitors. So I think it's new computer...

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Wine Fonts are all Squares in Fedora 12

I recently installed my first Wine application in Fedora 12. This was the result: The fix: Download spec file from http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/packages/SPECS/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.1.spec (don't use the default corefonts spec file. This spec file has been modded to...

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Fedora 12

Installed F12 last night and am just typing this to you now from it. Seems a tad more stable than Ubuntu 9.10. Installed using the LIVE CD "Install to Hard Disk" option which doesn't include OpenOffice or GIMP. With a default install I didn't have to install extra...

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New Guttering Installed

After 3 days of struggling with scaffold my Wife and I have finished the guttering. We sourced the Guttering from a sheetmetal product company in Newcastle Hancock Speedway When ordering the guttering I used my trusty QCAD, an Opensource 2D CAD Program to provide a...

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