I got this error "error:java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError" on the status bar of Firefox 3.0 while attempting to load Gallery 2's Java Upload Applet. Looks as though the IcedTea Java plugin is not compatible with the Upload Applet The fix: sudo apt-get remove...
James McDonald
First Eggs! and 2 New Isa Browns
OK so this morning I had a more thorough look for eggs and lo and behold in the back of the coop, in the most private corner are two eggs We weighed them and the first eggs are 46 + 48 grams. We haven't identified which of the 3 girls are the actual layers yet And...
Linux serial console
I had to test a console cable to see if it was indeed a console cable. The piece of equipment I was connecting to was outputting a garbled console leading me to wondering if I had a bad cable or a bad piece of equipment. Using the serial-console howto at...
My notes on using gimpsvn.sh to install Gimp 2.5.x
I wanted to try and install the latest version of the GIMP So I googled and found this blog with a nice gimp svn download and installation script named gimpsvn.sh cd ~/gimp-build My notes: Do make a directory such as gimp-build and cd into it mkdir ~/gimp-build cd...
Filelight and Boabab or How to pie chart your disk usage
filelight: kde application gives a really cool overview of how much and where you are consuming disk space. boabab: gnome/gtk application
Opening WPS files on Windows and Linux without Microsoft Office
Microsoft Works (wps) Documents aren't recognized by the native OpenOffice.org version of OpenOffice. Update: Ubuntu has a libwps package that provides the functions to convert wps files and the Ubuntu version of OpenOffice will open a WPS natively (thanks to Andrew...
IPSec Compliant Gateway
I am currently investigating setting up a connection with the following features: Linux 2.6.x Base System IPSec Compliant Gateway NAT on the Gateway to hide internal addresses from the remote network http://www.sherman.ca/archives/2004/11/21/linux-26-ipsec-vpns/...
Deleted binary causes No such file or directory error in bash
The scenario: Your path environment is similar to "/home/user/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" You have a binary in your path such as /home/user/bin/putty which you delete hoping to use the same binary further down the path...
The Linux find command
I'm putting this here so I can recall it for later The following snippet finds all files where the File's data was last modified more than 2 days ago and run the move command on each file to move them to the specified directory. find -mtime +2 -type f -print -exec mv...
wxWidgets using wxPerl and wxGlade
When it comes to getting user input and performing an action in a Windows environment there are several convenient options: You can purchase a Microsoft development environment for several thousand dollars such as Visual Studio (or whatever is the latest name for it)....
