James McDonald

Just added a user to the Guests Local Group on a Windows 2003 Server and wondered why the Internet Explorer Homepage settings wouldn't stick. Doh... Remember this for next time jimmy.

Just checked Telstra smartphone upgrade page and discovered some bad news about my HTC Desire "HTC will no longer proceed with a mass-market Gingerbread update for Desire due to the memory requirements of Android 2.3" Reading elsewhere I heard that they had trouble...

Just discovered GEPIR the "Global Electronic Party Information Registry" You can enter a limited number of barcodes (it has a query request limit) and it may return the company that owns the barcode prefix. I say may because some of the barcodes I sampled didn't...

#!/bin/bash ### ### Sample background worker script ### for linuxquestions.org written ### by Florian Harbich (user doc.nice) ### ### Free for use or modification, even if ### useless in this variant... ### # to terminate the script # run "touch...

Apache Web Server Security Configuration If you are thinking of moving to a self managed service one of the really important things is that you think heavily about security, especially of anything exposed to the web. If you have apache running then it's crucial to...

Install wine (yum install wine or apt-get install wine ) Download and install the Windows version of Acrobat reader: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/ (I chose the .exe version for the download) Install it using wine. My Install of Acrobat Reader X for...

How to upgrade your BIOS using a DOS Boot CD Loaded with DOS BIOS Utils http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html Now here's the genius stuff: How to upgrade your BIOS using DOS Boot CD and DOS BIOS Utils...

I haven't been able to get IE9 (x64) working with OWA 2003 running against an (x32) SBS 2003 Server. There doesn't seem to be any back end updates to make it work. So I'm un-installing IE9 (Despite it being the most standards compliant IE ever) When you go to...

Been a long while since I upgraded MS office so the jump from 2003 to 2010 has come as a supprise. 2003 65535rows x 256columns 2010 1048576rows x 16384columns A big step up. Only thing I noticed is if Office 2010 is in "Compatability Mode" meaning it's running to...

Firstly you need to install the correct package to have the make-ssl-cert command available: sudo apt-get install ssl-cert Then do the following as root or prepend sudo to each command: Create a self-signed certificate using the make-ssl-cert utility make-ssl-cert...

Just recently I discovered a problem caused by a trial software install. Files in /usr had been changed to be owned by someone other than root. (postgres). I did try to fix the problem by running chmod root:root /usr -R But I'm not confident that everything is now...

Just digging in my desk draw looking for a CDR to burn a 32bit Ubuntu Desktop Edition iso (ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso) to and discovered I didn't have any. But I did discover a DVD+R. So using Brasero (The Gnome ISO Burner Program under Linux (Fedora 15)) I burn't...

So moving to a Virtual Private Server from Dreamhost has fixed the problem I was having with Gallery 3 failing to resize images because of ImageMagick being killed. I can now resize all the photo's in an album and it works as expected. However I did find something...

A few weeks ago I installed Chromium Browser on my Fedora 15 Workstation. I have noticed some strange behaviour. Problem: Open a shortcut from a favourites menu Page appears to start loading but doesn't display Put cursor in Location field. Press enter and page...