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gnucash 2.3.3 compile

Ubuntu 9.04 sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash sudo apt-get install libwebkit-dev sudo apt-get install libdbi0-dev sudo apt-get install intltool sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3 sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql wget...

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Wipe a Hard Disk using Knoppix

Use shred to wipe your old computers hard drive before putting it in a dumpster Boot from a Knoppix CD and then: # get root su - # Find out what hard disks are installed by using fdisk minus L fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63...

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id: cannot find name for group ID 10034

Warning: If you do this you can kill your Samba Install. I take no responsibility if you damage your installation if you action anything on this website. Problem: id: cannot find name for group ID 10034 Background: I think the above error message was from deleting...

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wxPerl Fedora 11

Update: See comment from Dave Cross below for a safer method of installing CPAN modules on an RPM system. The current wxPerl shipped with Fedora is Broken (version 0.91-1.fc11)... Still. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:...

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Internet Explorer 6 on Linux Cleanup Script

This is a quick and dirty hack I use to kill the zombie processes left after running an ies4linux install of Internet Explorer 6. #!/bin/sh ps -ef | grep wineserver | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps -ef | grep explorer.exe | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps...

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Google SMTP Settings in Thunderbird 3 Beta

If you are using Google Apps IMAP Mail in Thunderbird 3.0b2 you might have trouble sending email until you set your secure SMTP settings to look like this: I followed the online info Google posts but it looks like the new tb3.0b2 has some mislabelled settings. Once I...

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Cisco 877 – Squid Cache

I recently went from having a Linux CentOS release 5.3 gateway firewall running Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 to a Cisco 877 ADSL gateway. Very quickly my users complained of r_e_a_l_l_y slow internet. With only the Cisco 877 in place every single request was...

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Date to Ordinal Days

I recently had to create a reasonably meaningful batch number for some GS1 compliant SSCC labels. I have an Internet Explorer Interface that submits the request to our ERP system. Due to legacy issues the batch number was restricted to 6 numeric digits. Some...

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