James McDonald

Problems: Click on cart or checkout or my-account and 404 not found Clicking shopping cart red item delete button doesn't delete the cart item. Cart only worked with permalinks set to "Default" i.e. not any rewriting Possible cause: Bad nginx configuration # before...

This error on Fedora 20 with CakePHP 2.5.3 CakePHP is NOT able to connect to the database. Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created. These commands fixed it (basically the MySQL PDO adapter is missing) yum install...

Using Apache as a Reverse Proxy to connect to an SBS 2011 server which runs Exchange Outlook Web Access and I kept getting "Proxy Error - Reason: Error reading from remote server" this occurred when I first connected to the reverse proxy server as follows: <SBS...

When you run the xTuple installer under a Linux 64 bit O/S sometimes it returns to the command prompt with blank or no output. ./xTuple-4.5.0-linux-installer.run Searching the forums gives hints, some are very dated...

Today I did my first attempt at committing some code to an open source project named xtuple, specifically the javascript part that supports the xtuple-mobile client https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple After posting a query about a translation issue on the xTuple...

If you are using a provider like DigitalOcean or Rackspace and you are making use of their DNS management features. Then you might one day want to craft a SPF (Sender Policy Framework) TXT record. The SPF allows email servers to check if the sending server is kosher...

These are very brief notes to capture what I've been trying to achieve this evening with Linux OCR. WatchOCR I've downloaded and installed the WatchOCR deb package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchocr/ To get it running on Fedora 20 I had to use alien to...

If you are thinking of buying a second hand PC or laptop and you want to check comparative CPU performance. Do one of the below options and then plug the CPU model into http://www.anandtech.com/bench which will give you benchmark score results for each CPU. Very handy...

I use QCAD Professonal and love it, but in PCManFM which is the default filemanager for LXDE you just get a standard ugly icon for dxf drawings. I like the thumbnails to be a preview of the content of the file. So I downloaded dxf-thumbnailer from here...

Installed system-config-printer-gnome, cups and hplip to get printing from my Chromebooks crouton chroot going and then ran into an error when trying to run system-config-printer: ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gdk Tried a fix mentioned on the internet, but...

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (Model: GT-19505, Android 4.3 - Telstra image) which was circular rebooting at greater than 50% battery charge. Battery life was abysmal. I noticed the phone would get very hot. Sometimes the rebooting kept happening even when I put the...

I am trying to create a video of some photos I numbered them thinking that when I imported them into Pitivi they would appear in numerical order. Not so. They sort alphabetically 1,10,11,100 instead of 1,2,3,4. So to get the result I wanted I created a script to copy...

Just trying to enable nginx on Fedora 20 yum install nginx systemctl enable nginx.service service nginx start # or the new way systemctl start nginx At this point I still can't connect with a remote computer so need to figure out how enable the firewall to allow port...

The Challenge Heterogeneous Operating Systems I have a Fedora 20 Workstation, A HP Chromebook and also access to the Windows stable of Operating systems. When you need to offer remote assistance sometimes they have a Tablet or any mix of the above I bought a...