I am trying to move from my Ubuntu box across to Fedora 7. It's not trivial because I have many things configured by hand on the Ubuntu box. Joomla 1.0.x Postfix + Dovecot + Amavisd + Squirrelmail Gallery 2 Madman Music Manager OpenVPN I like to setup my mail server...
If you installed Fedora 7 using the 6.93 Development Live Image then it probably configured yum to use the development repositories. I have had problems with XFCE4 specifically the terminal application exiting when I click the `Terminal' menu option. Because 6.93...
I prefer Redhat distributions to install secure firewall installations because of the sensible admin tools and the ease of dsl setup. For a desktop system I like to quickly be able to install packages and Ubuntu uses Synaptic and it's quick. Fedora uses Yum and the...
Every few months at work I check for upgrades of the software that I use. I have the normal Windows XP Pro SP2 with Office 2k3 and Acrobat Reader Installed. The rest of my software that I use on a daily basis is open source. GIMP 2.2.14 - Image editing PuTTY 0.60 -...
Do you have a dog? Some of us had dogs when we were younger and enjoyed their company and antics. As we got older and moved away from the family home a dog was not something we considered necessary and indeed became an impediment to renting property. But once you buy...
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop and am using Instlux from http://instlux.sourceforge.net/ to install Ubuntu 6.x. One issue I had was when I booted into the Instlux menu and pressed enter to start loading the kernel I got an error message saying it can't mount the...
A few months ago I pulled my old bathroom out to begin renovations. I calculated the cost as far as I knew it and thought hmm yes this will be finished in a month or two. Not so! Jan - Feb - Mar - April. 4 months without a bathroom. Now as I have spent the most of my...
Today is Saturday and I am approaching the last day of my weeks annual leave from my job. I work as a "Systems Engineer" - which for the company I work for means: "Jack of all Phones and Computers and the bits that tie them together". The thing about holidays, and I...
Today I was sitting in a shopping centre food court waiting for my wife to return. So I indulged in a spot of people watching. One particular person caught my eye. This woman had a hot chip in each hand and she was waving them both in the air. It almost looked like...
Open a cmd.exe session and enter the following. for /l %i in (1,1,254) do ping –w 100 –n 1 10.0.0.%i | findstr “Reply†Where 10.0.0. is replaced with your subnet address e.g. 192.168.20. Adjust the range of hosts you want to scan by change the first 1 in...