Life sometimes expects us to be jugglers. Unfortunately juggling isn't one of my skills. Recently we have had the Hunter River flooding it's banks making travel impossible. Many people have been flooded and the general unsettledness of the district is palpable. I will...
James McDonald
Disabled comments bug on Sumanasa Design02 1.0 Theme by Sumanasa.com
Problem: Disabling comments causes right sidebar to start below left content section and to lose formatting Cause: comments-nice-bg and comments-nice divs are repeated cause the close tags to be in the wrong spot Resolution: Firstly make sure that your...
Configure bluefish to use exo-open
If you have a default install of bluefish on Fedora 7. It is probably configured to use mozilla as the default browser and may have some rather complex command line to launch a browser and display the file you are working on. exo-open from the XFCE4 project takes a...
Changed Themes
Just changed wordpress themes to something a bit wider than the default. Should be a little easier to write my Linux tips in because there won't be so much word wrapping.
dnsmasq setup Fedora Core 7
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html I do the following. Normally the local machine queries /etc/resolv.conf for DNS servers. dnsmasq in turn queries resolv.conf for it's dns servers and can serve clients on the LAN their DNS/DHCP requests I want the machine...
Gravox is not Milk
Proving I am a creature of habit. Just went to make myself a cup of Coffee and reached into the fridge for the Milk. Unfortunately what was in it's exact location, in the same 1 litre Tetra pack style of packaging, was Gravox. Needless to say I had to remake my...
Using Knoppix and the dd utility to restore a WinXP partition Image to a Hard Disk
These are my notes on how I successfully restored a Windows XP image I took of a partition. I can't remember how exactly I took the partition image of the Windows XP installation. I can remember the following points I was dual booting at the time and I needed the XP...
Create a Apache SSL Certificate for Fedora 7
First remove the original test certs. Find their location as follows cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf | grep ^SSLCert SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key Get rid of the current cert / key rm -f...
Changing the default dovecot imaps certificate on Fedora 7
edit /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf to your settings cd /etc/pki/dovecot/ rm ./*/dovecot.pem find the dove mkcert.sh file locate mkcert.sh and run it /usr/libexec/dovecot/mkcert.sh
The Hunter River Floods its Banks
We live in the Hunter Valley. Not suprisingly the Hunter River flows through the Hunter Valley. Because it's a broad flat flood plain flooding is common. Around Maitland the Telegraph Poles have signs indicating flood levels from the big floods of 1955. We are...
