James McDonald

I want to extract the text "Windows 2008" sandwiched between [VM STORE] and "/Windows 2008.vmx" So I need two field separators ] for the left and / for the right. So for awk I use "[]/]" as the argument to -F. Then I need to trim the spaces using sed. echo "32 EDI...

This doesn't work ~ # cat fstest.sh #!/bin/sh ALLFILES=`ls -1 "/vmfs/volumes/4c371e81-0c463360-dfe3-001d091edb9f/ERP WinXP Client/"` # I tried all sorts of things but this works with # the vmware busybox (ash) shell # this works you get correct field separation...

The default field separator on awk is one or more spaces so for the following vmware command output if you try to awk out a VM name which has spaces you get the first word of the VM name and not the full name. To fix you need to change the field separator in awk to...

Talk about drama free install. Download the KDE LIVE ISO http://mirror.optus.net/opensuse/distribution/11.4/iso/openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso dd if=openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sde bs=8M Where /dev/sde is my 4GB USB Key. Press F10 on the HP Mini 110...

Error: "Zend Mail Protocol Exception: is unsupported SSL type" Solution: Comment out the email.secure option in $SIMPLE_INVOICES_ROOT/config/config.ini (see example below) Error 2: Authentication Unsuccessful when trying to connect to Windows 2003 Exchange Server...

Samba 3.5 documentation states: With both MIT and Heimdal Kerberos, it is unnecessary to configure the /etc/krb5.conf, and it may be detrimental. And further: MIT's, as well as Heimdal's, recent KRB5 libraries default to checking for SRV records, so they will...

Add your subnet addresses to the current (127.0.0.1) option and delimit using spaces. # default: off # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \ # to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \ # connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser....

Today I fired up VMWare convertor to move a 60GB Virtual Machine running as a guest on VMWare Server 2.0 on my workstation accross to a VMWare ESXi server. I kicked the process off and it guestimated the time to completion as 8hrs and 44 minutes. Hmmm... Then after...

Just playing with the HTML Helper link method Putting __() around a string makes it ready for internationalization in CakePHP. You create a translation file using poedit or somesuch and then CakePHP will automagically replace the contents with the other language when...

Problem: |Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1245, in NextButton_clicked self.showAddPrinterPage() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 680, in showAddPrinterPage self.readwriteFaxInformation() File...

I read the documentation. But I must be a slow learner or something. Anyway including javascript into a view using cakephp: I am using an auto baked cake template named index.ctp For me it's located cake_app_dir/views/names/index.ctp To get the javascript script block...

I know Ubuntu is getting a lot of the kudos recently for being the most popular distro. But Fedora deserves a lot of credit, if not for anything else for this: Presto reduced the update size by 80% (from 222 M to 46 M) It's yum based update system proactively checks...

I wasn’t going crazy… I finally tracked it down. Problem: I was stress testing a new application by submitting lpr.exe jobs from windows clients using lpr.exe I tried it from: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64bit) Using a windows batch file:...

I registered a domain a few months back and today have received a physical letter from "Domain Renewal Group" Basically the offer was this: We would like you to renew your domain with us for more than you paid with your last registrar. We know that no person with...

I have unzipped the latest version of cakephp into /home/username/public_html/cakephp I have baked an app: cd /home/username/public_html/cakephp/cake/console ./cake bake -app /home/username/public_html/mapdb-dev And then I hit the errors of access denied to the...

Since I moved to a self managed Rackspace Cloud Server. I've been forced to look at all the things that one would normally pay a shared hosting provider to manage. i.e. Security and Performance. So after installing a roll-your-own Apache+Suexec+Mod_Security+MySQL+PHP...

Just playing with the latest development snapshot of GIMP and discovered that it's got a really cool new way of sizing the pencil and brush tools. Before you had to select a 1, 3, 5 etc pixel brush or pencil. Which was annoying because I always seemed to want...