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...
On Tuesday (5 Aug 08) we had our first double yoked egg layed. It was 89 grams. The average egg we get at the moment from our young chooks is about 54-59 grams. It tasted really nice:
Update: This ended up being an iptables problem... The firewall rules I had were "stateful" so the icmp redirect was being killed by IPTables because it didn't identify the redirect as part of an already started connection. After changing it from stateful to...
Just had an issue where traceroute w.x.y.z failed however ping w.x.y.z worked fine.... The fix: traceroute -I w.x.y.z or traceroute -T w.x.y.z Where w.x.y.z is the IP address of the remote host e.g. 10.22.34.8 By default the Linux traceroute was using UDP which must...