PuTTY is an excellent Telnet and SSH client for Windows and Unix. I have used it for all my IT Career to access my Home and Work Linux boxes. I now exclusively use Linux at home, but found the GTK1.2 PuTTY client to be a bit aged. However, while not listed as a...
Recently we became the proud owners of 4 chooks. This morning my Wife calls out and says that one of them was outside of the pen. I presume she got out by jumping onto the coop and then over the 1.8m high wire fence. Looks like I'm going to have to do some wing...
I have been tinkering with a SBS 2003 box that has been restored from backup. One of the annoying things I have come up against was that it wouldn't reboot quickly enough and a "service or hardware" failed to start popup would be there when it finally arrived back at...
If you use Windows XP at work, but Linux at home, you may be missing the multiple desktops feature that Linux provides . http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ is the answer. I don't use the "group similar taskbar buttons" Windows XP feature but find multiple workspaces a...
I just had an issue where I tried to issue crontab -e as a user and got crontabs/username: Permission denied The problem was traced to deleting an old account that had a crontab then recreating the account later which had a different user id. Note here how the...
I have been thinking about getting a micro sized Linux desktop / laptop machine. I hate buying something without getting a 3rd opinion from someone who has used it. On Youtube you can get user and industry trade reviews. When I was looking at the Asus EeePC there was...
If you want to do this get an old version of XAMPP Update: New versions of XAMPP for Windows don't have the PHP paradox module. The latest I could find that contained the necessary php/ext/php_paradox.dll file was XAMPP for Windows 1.7.0 Windows (XP) provides a...
OK after much work I have created a chicken coop and run and today we got delivery of four lovely ladies to inhabit them. They are "Layer Pullets" so they are about 6 weeks away from laying eggs. I got them through Brian Larkin Poultry ((02) 4681 9722) who sells them...
A few months ago I installed a Belkin F5D7633au4A ADSL2+ Modem with Wireless-G Router. My advice is to avoid them. I could connect to Outlook Web Access at work but it choked on the graphical icons and hung. YouTube videos would play and then stop down loading at...
I went on three weeks holiday recently and when I got back I had forgotten what I had configured as the GRUB and root passwords on a CentOS 5.1 box. I ended up using two FAQ's that I stored for future reference. One I had written -...