I went to Openoffice.org and blindly downloaded the default package "OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz" which is the wrong package for Ubuntu 8.10. The Fix: Go back to openoffice.org, under "I want to download OpenOffice.org" click the "Get more platforms...
A while ago we got some week-old chicks from a pre-school. We have divided our pen in half and kept them segregated from our older birds so we could feed them Pullet Grower mix without them being molested by the adults. However this morning I went into their area and...
I'm putting this here so I can use it for later. I have the following: 150GB HDD of which 123GB is filled with data on a Dell Optiplex 330 the source computer 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essential Edition as the backup media A copy of the latest Ghost Corporate Edition...
wget has a cool feature known as limit-rate. If you want to leave a bit of bandwidth for other things then use it with double u get. wget -c -t 100 --limit-rate=80k http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.10/ubuntu-8.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso The above means -c...
I had a virus infested computer and I wanted to zero the partition and restore from a partimage file but first I thought I would zero out the data on the partition using dd so: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 This took absolutely ages... and I was wondering when it was...
You get this error when trying to umount a partition: umount /mnt/sdb1/ umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy umount: /mnt/sdb1: device is busy At a root prompt: Run fuser see man fuser for options fuser -v /mnt/sdb1/ Output of fuser USER PID ACCESS COMMAND...
Problem: Cause: Fedora isn't as good as Ubuntu at detecting and installing your devices Resolution: Install libsane-hpaio Done
Just got an error trying to run a wxPerl application on Fedora 9 complaining about missing "libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so" amongst other things. The fix: yum install wxGTK-devel-2.8.7-2.fc9.i386
Question: How can I tar up about 12GB of files on a linux box and then split the files into 700MB chucks? Answer: You can use the following 2 methods on any GNU tooled box or using the Cygwin environment on Windows. Using tar, gzip, split and cat - Method 1...
Using apt-get or synaptic install lynx libwxgtk2.8 libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev Test::POD::Coverage As root run CPAN with the command to install wx. You may have to configure CPAN prior to using it. I chose to follow dependencies and kept most of the defaults. sudo...