James McDonald

Just checking if my Dreamhost VPS has had the memory reduced yet Before: [me@mybox]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2300 97 2202 0 0 12 -/+ buffers/cache: 84 2215 Swap: 0 0 0 After: [me@mybox]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 300...

I have had problems on my shared hosting account with Gallery 3 having the Imagemagicks convert utility processes terminated, thus not completing resize operations, and therefore leaving thumbnails and resizes at the size of the original image. Of course you can...

I've had this domain on dreamhost.com's shared hosting for a few years. It's been OK. For the dollar value it's got a lot of features. Linux Shell access (woo hoo!) One click install of a heap of opensource stuff Unlimited Disk space (meaning you can have more than a...

# get a list of your virtualbox virtual machines [me@mtbox ~]$ vboxmanage list vms "Windows SBS Server 2011 Trial" {d0c766e8-252b-4016-a37f-db60894230eb} "LSMB" {259dea54-ef0a-48c2-b06c-fa164e87abab} "debian-6.0.2.1-amd64" {91b7ca3-2162-470e-aadf-df46046a468c} # start...

Overview: I want to connect from a Windows 7 workstation to a Fedora 15 Computer using FreeNX How I did it On Fedora install FreeNX Server (Note: you already need to have the OpenSSH server installed and working) yum install freenx-server This is all I had to do to...

I have a deep and abiding annoyance with online loan calculators. I blame them for being: Clumsy Restricted Self-Interested So when I found that Open/Libre Office has good support for calculating repayments it has come as a relief....

If you get a web page with "Advert blocked" on it, it's not very descriptive, but basically it's dansguardian (a web filter) stomping on an Advertisement: To find out more about the problem I changed the dansguardian report setting "reportinglevel = 3" to...

Problem: Running wupdmgr on a Windows XP Pro SP3 Box throws "[Error number: 0x800A01B6]." in Internet Explorer Trying wupdmgr on several Windows XP Pro Boxes and the error is duplicated. Cause: Cisco ASA firewall configured to do ActiveX Filtering blocking the Windows...

Just attempted to run qcad and got an error as follows [me@mypc qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86]$ ./qcad ./qcad: error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Found that my 64 bit version of libXrandr on...

I just had the following experience: I sat down in front of my desktop computer which isn't connected to the internet at the moment. My HTC Desire Android based phone told me it needed a recharge so I plugged it in to my computer for a bit using it's USB cable. It...

I'm playing with upgrading a Ubuntu 9.04 installation and ran into the "An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool." and I had no idea what version `lucid' was. To find the version of the currently running Linux box use lsb_release -a...

How to set your Ethernet card back to eth0 I have a Ubuntu 9.04 JEOS (Just Enough OS) Virtual Machine running under Virtualbox. I have upgraded my host machine several times, converted the VM from VMWare to Virtualbox, moved the VM from one disk to another, created a...

Symptoms: Go to twitter.com and try to browse to a user profile and you get an "Aw, Snap" page. Resolution: Using information at http://blog.randell.ph/2011/06/11/fix-for-aw-snap-while-loading-twitter-in-fedora-15-with-selinux-enforcing-enabled/ Do: Fix the current...

Put here for posterity. How to make sure standard error and std out go to the bit bucket. # crontab line 0 16 * * 1-5 /home/batch/getShipping/getShippingDetails.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

I used to maintain another file for user email signatures but that is really daft when you can store and maintain it in AD. This is how to grab the users details from Active Directory using Kixtart Script. $oADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") $strUser =...

Just had a problem with a failing Windows Update on a Windows 2008 R2 Server "Windows Update Error: 8024402F" On further investigation found that dansguardian was denying the connection to the cab file because the word "babe" was in the URL: # the following was all on...