The Fedora 11 Feature List seems to cover alot of the Ubuntu 9.04 ground. Everyone seems to be on the 20 second boot wagon. The only thing I'm presuming will be a problem is that you don't get a one click MP3 support install as for Ubuntu. So Fedora 11 still requires...
Note: This post isn't complete. I have this configuration working for myself, but the IPTables rules are taken from a very big script and may not be complete. Email me if you have a question or if you can explain this better. Anyway hopefully there is enough here to...
My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...
The Situation: I have just moved an Alcatel OmniPCX(old site) to replace an NEC Xen IPK(new site). And transferred the old sites 100 number range to run concurrently with the new sites existing 100 number in-dial range. Old Site: Good Alcatel PABX with good expansion...
I shifted my email for jamesmcdonald.id.au to Google Apps. However I have found an annoying behaviour for Gmail. Join an email list (I'm on [email protected]) with your Google hosted email domain. Send an email to the list. The traditional behaviour should be...
echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f [email protected] -t [email protected] Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...
I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...
IIBYGTKBP. I saw this acronym on the linux-users email list A Google didn't enlighten me. So I delved into wet memory and came up with what it means by recalling the poster who used the full version of IIBYGTKBP in the past. So here it is - IIBYGTKBP: If it breaks you...
Went to Organic Feast for a Coffee on the weekend. As you do at Cafe's you grab a magazine. My wife found me a magazine named "The Owner Builder". I loved it. So many real life experiences of people building low cost but very interesting structures. By the end of the...
So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn't many people saying it 'completes me'. Quite the opposite. So seeing I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install...