Just had a situation where I had to send 29 faxes from a Windows XP Pro SP2 box to a Windows 2003 SBS server. So I did the following: Scanned the item I need to fax to 300dpi tiff format. Import the names / address / fax details from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook...
Installed it and found several useability issues that were show stoppers for me. wbar is a nice idea visually, but not being able to restrict launched applications to a certain area of the screen meant the wbar got occluded by applications and then you are up for...
Been trying to run Youtube from the desktop of gOS 3 Beta. Nadda Zip is happening. The cause: No permissions to the desktop file ls -al /usr/share/applications/youtube.desktop -rw------- 1 root root 216 2008-08-05 01:02 /usr/share/applications/youtube.desktop The fix:...
I just attempted to convert a Redhat 3.1 VMWare Server 1.04 VMImage using VMWare Convertor 3.03 to VMWare ESX Server 3i v 3.5. The VMWare Convertor conversion completed successfully and loaded the VM to the ESX Server however when I booted the VM on the ESX Server I...
When un-installing applications in an environment where you have my documents re-directed to a mapped network drive for example "H:\My Documents" you may get an error and the un-installer will quit. (I think may be an installshield error) Sometimes you don't really...
Just made a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to use Tesseract OCR. Here is a sample: "|I11;XII;"1n -¤:2;;2:¤ LIEEEEEEE.-::2;;;: nz ’‘·* *--2.. ::2;;: "=I;;;. :1:;*-- ::2;£2|a:‘¤I;;;.XXi.X ·¤:;1;;¤· X;|:;t1X '!EEEXI|· XXXIIEX--EXIIXX-.:21:;. -·¤a.;¤¤a..a··...
There is supposed to a macro @PRIV that will return if the user running the kixtart script is an admin or not. However if you have given yourself local Administration priveleges by adding a domain group you are a member of to the local Administrators Group then @PRIV...
Our White Leghorn / New Hampshire Cross chook known as Polly has finally started laying. Which has taken a month or so longer than the Rhode Island / New Hampshire crosses took to begin laying. She laid her first egg last Friday (15/Aug/08) and the 2nd one came today....
If you are interested in creating an automatic drinker without spending 10-20 dollars on a bought one you can make a drinker out of a plastic tub and a drink bottle you will need to drill holes in the drink bottle to let the water out to the right height and then just...
We have been slowly refining our Chook Pen and Coop. The first thing we found is the girls didn't like how exposed the nesting boxes felt and weren't using them. So we stapled a privacy curtain to front and put small cutouts in them to allow them to enter. They now...