Update: My logs were filling up with CPU temp warnings. Cracked the case and found that the the old P4 CPU heat sink was completely clogged with lint causing temps over 75deg C. Some judicious vacuuming and shortly after the CPU temp was in the mid 50's. Performance...
An example Home/Work setup: If you enable ufw remotely without specifying a correct ssh rule you may lock yourself out of your remote Ubuntu box. Before you can setup an ssh allow rule you need the following configuration and information: Port forwarding TCP port 22...
Ubuntu 9.10... avidemux is crashing everytime I try to run the rotate filter with a partial frame range. So I'm trying to compile it from source to see if I can get it running. What they don't tell you in the online install instructions is you have to compile both the...
Googled and found this Empathy FAQ Points to Ubuntu Personal Package Archive with an Empathy package which includes MSN support here ==> https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa/ However I am getting a "503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle...
Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn't using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a...
I get between about 100 to (almost) 200 visits a day to this site or so Google Analytics tells me. Recently I blogged about adding non-wordpress parts of your site to the Wordpress tab navigation. And then it hit me... Google Analytics isn't seeing anything about my...
If you have even a small modicum of knowledge in IT you know the first rule of change management is "Before you do anything make sure you have a good backup". Well I've been using Ubuntu 9.04 since it's release and today the update manager gave me the option to...
Note: This works on Ubuntu 10.10 also This worked for me: # you may need to install the sun/oracle java first me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre # if you have only just installed then locate won't work use find instead me@mybox:~$ find /usr/lib/jvm -name...
I have my Wordpress setup to display all the blog posts on the front page and the Wordpress "Pages" as tabs on the navigation at the top of the page. However I also would like the navigation to point to other non Wordpress areas of my domain and go straight there. For...
Just a note to self. The Symantec Endpoint Protection SyLinkReplacer (a utility used to rehome clients) doesn't seem to work if your target client has a non-standard windows directory. e.g. all my clients with c:\windows as the %WINDIR% worked fine. But anything with...