So I have moved my domain to dreamhost.com Why? Got sick of my home computer being a VMWare Server. Couldn't reboot or upgrade when I wanted Computers are evil time suckers. Moving my website means I don't have to worry if it's up, down or sideways. dreamhost.com can...
James McDonald
Going offline for a day or so
I'm moving my website to another provider.
Changing Mozilla Thunderbird Forward as Attachment to Forward Inline
When I forward a message I like to have the option of scrolling through the content and commenting in between the paragraphs of the forwarded message. Thunderbirds default behaviour is to forward messages as attachments: However to be able to edit the forwarded email...
Enabling Stylesheet & Template Editing of LedgerSMB on Ubuntu 9.04
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Installing LedgerSMB 1.2.18-1 on Ubuntu 9.04
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Installing VMWare tools on a Ubuntu 8.10 Guest
I logged into my Ubuntu VMWare Guest and found the time had drifted by about 15 minutes... I have seen all sorts of conjecture as to why you should / shouldn't run ntpd to keep your vm time in-sync. So I thought I would install vmware-tools... which does it for you....
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The last few months have been crazy as far as learning new technologies. First it was the SOAP interface to our ERP at work. Enter XML, XSLT and the associated tools to process the stuff. I Googled till I was blue in the face and found enough online to figure it out....
WP-Highslide Plugin XHTML gotcha
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Ubuntu 9.04 – jaunty released
I have been running a release candidate version of Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop for a few months now, and it has given me confidence that the latest version of Ubuntu will be good to install on the desktop. Several of the nagging annoyances that caused me to bypass Ubuntu...
Using find & xargs to create an empty index.html file in every directory
If you have global indexing turned on for Apache: Options Indexes You may wish to leave it enabled but still stop indexes being displayed. Using find and xargs you can create an empty index.html in each directory and Apache will serve it instead of the list of files...
