James McDonald

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx

Things have vastly improved the following is a rant of mine from 13 years ago. Fished out of Drafts and published April 2025. I am so sick and tired of installing applications that assume that the local user will be an administrator. Applications that have been...

service vmware-vpxd stop CONNECT TO database-alias QUIESCE DATABASE IMMEDIATE FORCE CONNECTIONS;  UNQUIESCE DATABASE; TERMINATE; DEACTIVATE DATABASE database-alias BACKUP DATABASE database-alias TO '/db2_backup/' ACTIVATE DATABASE database-alias

Written 12 years ago. Published from Drafts April 2025 I tried uninstalling office 2003 but it still threw the same "Office 2003 Installation is Corrupted..." Deleting HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\OFFICE\11.0\DELIVERY fixed the problem and allowed Office 2010 to install...

Written 12 years ago. Published from Drafts April '25 I have been observing woeful performance when clicking on a message in my gmail inbox from Evolution 3.6.3 on Fedora 18 (and from F15-17 too btw).  If I click on several messages then evolution can hang for minutes...

Install a new VM from ISO as normal Configure as per normal I joined domain, name etc. Install latest patches. Boot VM and run c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe Select OOBE and tick generalize box, Choose the shutdown option. In vSphere right click VM and choose...

Written 11 years ago. Published from Drafts April '25 Ever tested a mass email campaign and accidentally sent it to the wrong people. Here is what that looks like:   And this is what it looks like once it's discovered: And this is what firefox looks like when it...

GTK-RecordMyDesktop is a great app for taking screen video's with sound. However on my Fedora 20 workstation. The sound recording is atrocious. The sound coming from my head phone mic into the recording of my desktop screen video is noisy and sub-par. To improve...