The following is useful if you have say a 10GB C: drive and it's on a larger Hard Disk and you would like to enlarge it. I don't go into the nitty gritty of using fdisk under Linux so it might be a bit abreviated if you're a newbie. Boot from Knoppix CD Once booted...
My lovely Wife has gotten us a pet Fish. Here is a picture of it lurking in it's vase. I was a bit concerned about it on the first night but I think it was just acclimatizing. Seems it's a tropical fish and they need reasonably warm weather so a heater may be on the...
Using cygwin with ImageMagick installed you can resize entire directories of jpegs using the convert utility for i in `ls *.jpg`; do convert -resize 30% -quality 80 $i conv_$i; done The 30% made images with a resolution of 3072 x 2304 pixels (approx 1.6 to 2.1MB each)...
Just installed it under Windows XP. Seems a lot more friendly as far as the interface goes. A good preview is located here
If you don't like to open a new window (spatial mode) for each sub folder you open. Then the following change stops that behaviour and gives you the "Gnome File Browser" instead of that annoying little window (presentation mode). Open the Gnome File Browser and then...
I haven't managed to get wxWidgets-2.8.5 to compile using MinGW and the w32 target under Fedora 7. The following was an attempt but sadly not a working one. Install MinGW Download the following from http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/packages/fc2/...
I discovered you have to install hplip to getting scanning working but there are also a few dependencies that it doesn't automagically install so you need yum install hplip PyQT hplip-gui then you run /sbin/service hplip start then the setup program...
Recover data from a corrupted USB Key
Nov 03 2007 Update - Amavisd again failed to start after an update same error again. This resolved the problem. I just did an yum update to Fedora 7 and rebooted seems that amavisd wasn't starting the complaint was about Compress::Zlib not loading. Long story short...
We just spent a week in Port Macquarie. The place is filled with what appear to be largely empty holiday apartment buildings. We went in an off peak period so I assume that the place must really hum when it fills up. The beauty of Port Macquarie is the Coastline. A...