James McDonald

Installed AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin Trying to run Adobe Reader on Fedora 19 Run acroread from command prompt displays a series of missing libraries and modules. Follow the yum install commands below to get it working:...

https://github.com/ajashton/Inkscape-Mockup-Toolkit  

Used this howto: https://support.google.com/chromeos/answer/2382577?hl=en Works with my Chromebook, Windows 7 and Android (Samsung Galaxy SII) Sometimes the Chromebook takes a little while to connect. And if it disconnects you may need to wait a few minutes before it...

You need to ping the device from the switch so you can populate the switches arp cache with the IP/Mac mapping. From there you can then find the port # firstly on the cisco switch you need to ping the IP address of the device ping 192.168.0.6 Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP...

All details here ==> http://www.funzt.info/?p=910 Windows Requires a way of mounting one folder to another using Dokan (which is a Windows version of FUSE) and then the Windows version of encFS On Android I have been using BoxCryptor which also has a Windows Client...

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/job-logs-dont-work-firefox The above suggests turning off javascript in Firefox which will then display the Backup Exec Html log file fully expanded. On my Chromebook Developer Mode running Ubuntu 13.04 GNU/Linux inside a crouton...

https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/find-and-replace-a-value-in-multiple-files-in-a-directory-tree   cd /top/of/tree/to/change fgrep -IlR server_name_here \| grep -v "log" \| xargs sed -i.bak -e 's/server_name_here/new_server_name_here/g' Find all non binary files (-I)...

Installed this on virtual box to have a look: Symantec_Endpoint_Protection_12.1.2_Security_Virtual_Appliance_ML.ova User: admin Password: symantec Run sudo su - to get root (sudo -s won't work)  

Sample script of using PuTTYs psftp and plink to: login to a remote linux host using plink via ssh, run a find command to return a list of files in a directory tree, build a psftp batch script to grab and move the remote files login again using psftp and run the batch...

Thinking of storing settings in registry. Some sample code: set oshell = createobject("wscript.shell") apf = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Settings" settings = Array("user", "domain", "password", "host") slug = apf & "\edi_transfer_" ' create APFoods key...

After spending a lot of time coding in jQuery and CakePHP. Which rely heavily on JSON and PHP Arrays respectively I have come to appreciate storing stuff in objects. Most of my at work Windows scripting stuff is done using VBS so I was searching for a way to store...

When resetting your Joomla password you may want to generate your own md5sum password. I found an oddity with doing if from the command line. If you just echo the password echo admin | md5sum 456b7016a916a4b178dd72b947c152b7 - echo -n admin | md5sum...

I have a HP Chromebook but wanted to watch apple.com trailers and it comes up with the "Get QuickTime" splash in Google Chrome. Note: The following fix is not to get Apple.com trailers working in the Chromebooks ChromeOS Google Chrome browser but inside a crouton...

Generally if you Google you will be heading over to stackoverflow and will probably find the answer to specific problems quite quickly. However it pays to have a structural overview of git. I found the following two resources immensely  helpful. The most amazing...

I installed crouton using the smaller 'cli-extra' target because I didn't want to have to upgrade a desktop environment through two versions of Ubuntu. sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t cli-extra Then entered the crouton change root environment using 'sudo...

Run the following from the command line xdpyinfo | grep 'dimensions'   dimensions:    1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters) Version: Fedora 18