James McDonald

Just installed xfreerdp as I found that it provided a better experience when connecting to the Oracle Virtualbox RDP server. Also installed Remmina a tsclient style app with multi-protocol support but discovered no support for RDP connections as installed. yum install...

Just loaded a jQuery site into IE9 and threw the error "SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property 'parentNode': object is null or undefined" Code Before (working on Google Chrome but not in IE9) $('#item-table tbody').click(function(){...

I have an NVidia graphics card in my Fedora 18 system and I've been using the NVidia drivers but found that the print screen and alt+print screen produced badly corrupted or all black screen shots. Seeing as the problem has persisted through multiple upgrades of the...

Do this Creating DIA diagrams from mysql via XSLT The XSLT (echo "<root>"; mysql --user=root -p -A -D maps \ -e 'desc assigned_tos ; \ desc map_histories; \ desc map_types; \ desc maps' -X |\ grep -v "<?xml" ;\ echo "</root>") > /tmp/tmp.xml xsltproc...

I have a textarea which I use jquery.append() to place error messages into. $('textarea').append(status_text + line_break); I have found that in Internet Explorer if I use a newline character "\n" for the line_break I get: If I use a carriage return line feed "\r\n"...

I had this: public function recent_history($weeks = null) { $this -> MapHistory -> recursive = 0; $this->paginate = array ( 'conditions' => array( 'OR' => array( 'MapHistory.date_returned >' => 'DATE_SUB( CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 2 WEEK)',...

Eventually I think my home will have laptops. They are easy to cart to where your $SIGNIFICANT_OTHER is located and you can be there instead of in the Office where you can't look up adoringly every now and again. But that means you need some sort of way of being able...

Good info here ==> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts But the path to conf.avail is /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail [root@mypc conf.avail]# ln -sf  /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/ [root@mypc conf.avail]# ln...

Using Outlook Web Access and your session is timing out too soon. This may help Change the settings as below and if you select when you login to owa using forms based authentication the following options: -          “This is a public or shared computer” you will have...

Followed  the instructions at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512723(v=office.14).aspx Moved all sharepoint databases to a new server. I left the SERVER_NAME\SHAREPOINT instance installed on the SBS 2011 box but have found that backups are failing because...

Installed the SBS 2011 Premium Add-On (which is another copy of Windows 2008 R2 Server with SQL 2008 R2 on it) and moved all Sharepoint Foundation 2010 databases from the SBS 2011 server to the new SQL server. In the SBS 2011 Application Event Log I kept getting an...

On Redhat Open /etc/gdm/custom.conf Add [security] DisallowTCP=false AllowRemoteRoot=true [xdmcp] Enable=true HonorIndirect=false   restart X telinit 3 telinit 5  

Just looking at http://www.nbnco.com.au/industry/service-providers/network-rollout/boundaries.html And they offer some zip files which contain MID and MIF extensioned files. Which are MapInFo vector overlays to show where they are putting fibre in. I didn't really...

Just got this error on a couple of my Windows 7 clients that were attempting to connect to WSUS. Discovered that a proxy server had been configured with-out a bypass for local list so the connection to the WSUS server was going to the proxy and then failing to connect...

Just tried to save a Microsoft Excel  document which was password protected  in  ODS format. And got the above error. Was running LibreOffice 4.0.0.3 and the Help ==> Check for Updates showed that a newer version was available So I downloaded and installed...