Today I tried to run the following javascript using jQuery 1.4.2 on IE8 under Windows XP Pro SP3: // returns 'pallet' tabname var tab = get_tab(); // returns 'pallet-item' text input field var target_field = get_target_field(tab); // works in firefox and chrome but...
James McDonald
Going Virtual with VMWare and Dell – Part 1
In the Beginning I have been employed in my current role since 2004. When I started, there was a generic PC running Netware 3.11 Server the files on which were soon transfered over to SBS2003 running on a noname server with IDE disks. Within a year I had imaged and...
Notes on The Magic of Part-Time by Jim Rohn
A lot of the Jim Rohn video's on youtube are 1-7minute sound bites but this one over an hour. Here are some notes I made on the the "The Magic of Part-Time by Jim Rohn" Correct the errors of the past and pick up new disciplines for the future. 1. Law of averages...
Rough Dia Shapes for 19″ Optical Fibre Patch Panels
Dia the opensource diagramming programming program. Has a lot of shapes. However I always seem to use ones that aren't in the standard or diashapes repository. So I've created a 2 new shapes for myself using the howto here This is a good site for more technical...
Wakanda HTML 5 Javascript Framework
Another entry to add to my HTML 5 Framework List is Wakanda. My frustration with jQuery UI is that you have to hand code the pages. Wakanda appears to have an IDE that allows drag and drop of widgets onto a canvas and the configuration of datasources and classes that...
How to stop that annoying screen shot window appearing when taking a screenshot and just send it to the clipboard in Gnome 3
On Fedora 16 running Gnome 3 by default if you press ALT+Print Screen or simply Print Screen you get this window: Sometimes I find this really annoying because it adds a step that I don't want. I would rather not see the gnome-screenshot window and simply have the...
Transfer Outlook 2003 Email Address Autocomplete Cache to Outlook 2010
Blogging laziness. Like he said ==> http://clintboessen.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/how-to-import-nk2-files-into-outlook.html This is my instructions (just in case the above doesn't google up for me again) for moving from Windows XP Pro/Outlook 2003 to Windows 7...
BitTorrent Browser Toolbar Removal Triathlon
BitTorrent.com's BitTorrent client installs a browser toolbar in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox. There isn't an opt-out option to stop the toolbar installation when installing Bittorrent so you need to uninstall the toolbars after installation. To...
Google Zoom Level to Scale Legend Mapping
In the bottom left hand corner of a Google map you usually see a scale with Metres and Feet displayed. Here is a list of what I think are the google zoom level to scale legend conversions.
Long Term Electronic Storage of Purchase Receipts
Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that...
Re-order PDF’s using pdftk
I have 2 pdf files scan0126.pdf and scan0125r2.pdf and I need to combine them however page scan0126.pdf contains page 1 and 3 of the combined document and scan0125r2.pdf contains page 2. Re-order selected pages from multiple PDF documents into a new combined PDF pdftk...
Keeping an OpenConnect SSL VPN Tunnel Open (Hack to avoid inactivity timeout)
I have a suspicion that my Remote SSL VPN server has an inactivity timeout on it and so I lose connectivity because of no traffic passing so it disconnects. Here is a one line bash script that wakes up every 60 seconds and pings a host at the other end of the tunnel...
Trying to Connect to a specific Remote RDP Session on a remote computer and you get the “Exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections” message
From a mate of mine Norman Goh: Issue: You need to connect to a specific Active Connection from another computer or your computer rebooted and left an active session which you cannot connect to. When you connect you get the following error message; Solution: 1. Login...
TortoiseSVN – Moving multiple versioned files
I feel silly I've been right clicking and choosing rename... from the TortoiseSVN context menu and manually renaming files to move them into other directories. But... you can do a right click drag and drop which gives you a context menu with Subversion options. Very...
ESXi 4 VM Backup using unsupported SSH login and ftpput
I got the skeleton of this script from another post. DISCLAIMER: Use this at your own risk. I am not responsible for any data corruption or loss that may occur if you decide to use this without first making sure it works for you. After playing around with it for hours...
Gnome 3 has option ninjas hiding in plain site
In Gnome 3 you have to press ALT while clicking the System Settings menu (the menu accessed by clicking your username on the top right of the screen) to get the Shutdown (Poweroff) option.
Copy file from ESXi Server to your Windows Computer using PuTTY’s pscp
You need to enable the unsupported SSH server on the ESXi box Then using the pscp utility that comes with PuTTY add -scp to the command line because the default sftp doesn't work. Here is an example of copying a file off the ESXi server from the command line of a...
Before you throw away your workstations shred your disks
I did this with a Ubuntu 9.04 bootable Live CD. Boot from the CD Choose to try Ubuntu without installing Start a command prompt (Applications ==> Terminal) # get root sudo su - # find your harddisks root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255...