James McDonald

I've been yo'yoing (a word only Words with Friends would accept) between Ubuntu and Fedora and during my periods at the Apogee from one or the other distribution I find I want to do something in one or the other that I know the command of in the other or vice versa....

A list of on-line map websites: Nearmap.org - (Sadly this has become a paid for service - They do have single user licenses. Good but pricey) In Australia regular over-flight photos high def. Uses Openstreetmap.org's streetmaps so streetnames are usually missing....

I googled "VBScript Send Fax" today and got an excellent example: http://sandlerco.com/VBScript.htm http://sandlerco.com/fspfaq.htm Update: Microsoft Documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686957(v=VS.85).aspx But the site seems to be bouncing /...

Versions: Google Chrome: 14.0.835.163 Acrobat Reader: 9.4.2 Fedora 15 current patches as at 22/9/2011 This seems to reset Google Chrome so it opens the correct mkdir ~/tmp # create a temporary directory so you # can recover if it causes unexpected side effects # move...

I have a Cisco Catalyst 100mbps switch between my source and destination workstations. I'm trying to copy about 26.1GB across and it's going to take circa 40minutes. My question is: Why am I only getting 11.2MB/s when I have a 100mbps switch? Quoting here I get an...

Usage: vmplayer.exe [OPTION...] [--] [configuration file] where OPTIONS are: -v show program version -X Enter full screen mode when a virtual machine is powered on -U Enter Unity when a virtual machine is powered on -s NAME=VALUE Set Preference variable NAME to...

The last time I noticed this happen is when our local radio station 2HD had a script inclusion to something noxious. Anyway IT security is important.

Looking at my auth.log on an internet accessible server. I notice that there has been 3071 unsuccesful login attempts since last the logs rotated. cat /var/log/auth.log | grep invalid | grep ssh | wc 3071 49136 327541 # does any one know how to match two arguments...

Just had a situation where I ran palimpsest and tried to carve another partition onto a 2TB disk which I had only put a single 500GB partition on. To cut a long story short I ended up losing the current partition on the disk which was also my /home. So not fun. In the...

Something that has annoyed me for the longest time. I have just downloaded a zip ball of the latest development code of gallery 3. Typically you unzip the zipball and it creates randomly named folder e.g. "gallery-gallery3-dfbfe09" then you have to copy the contents...

So I've been running on the Rackspace cloud for a week or so. The server stays up: w 22:45:08 up 4 days, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.10, 0.10 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root pts/0 cpe-XXX-XXX-XXX- 22:45 0.00s 0.01s 0.00s w And it uses memory but...

Good Concept Just be prepared for head scratching I had a post with this as the URL /it-tips/getting-screenshots-working-the-way-i-like-in-lxde couldn't access with mod_security running. The reason it didn't like the word "like" in the Permalink tag. So I've changed...

SeLinux troubleshooting

Hard disk model hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep Model Model Number: WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 Capacity and sector size hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep size Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 1907729 MBytes device size with M...

This will seem really simple to those that know about these things, but hey I'm easily amused. Here is a snippet from an /etc/init.d script HTTPD=/httpd/bin/httpd PIDFILE=/httpd/logs/httpd.pid if pidof $HTTPD | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -w $(cat $PIDFILE); then return 0 fi...

Dreamhost to Rackspace So after a long time with Dreamhost. I've made the move to a Self Managed Cloud Server at Rackspace. Don't get me wrong Dreamhost has all the flexibility you would need for shared hosting but I was finding that to get the resources I needed for...