James McDonald

This post is another one of my memory jogger posts. After posting this I stumbled upon, in the original sense, not the http://www.stumbleupon.com/ sense. A link to http://www.site5.com/hosting/ which seems to have a better approach to hosting than some other hosting...

This is a handy site if you want to check if a web site you can't access is unavailable to just you or to everyone else as well. Just append the URL to the end of http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ e.g. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/en.wikipedia.org

Besides wasting copious amounts of time, which could be better spent communicating with your family. YouTube can also be a fantastic training resource. Tor example despite me being red/green colour blind I still occassionally want to edit images and the Open Source...

Problem: Just tried to use mget to get all the files in a remote directory and it prompted me to accept each file with a y/n. This is because by default smbclient prompts to accept each file when using the mget command. smb: \> cd PDFs smb: \PDFs\> mget * Get file...

ADSL performance is predicated on a number of factors. Of primary importance to the potential speed of ADSL is the distance of your house from your local Telephone Exchange. Using Google maps you can roughly calculate your distance from the exchange: You need to know...

Cron does repeating jobs at runs one off jobs. So can be handy You need the `at' package yum install at The at daemon must be running ps -ef | grep atd root 2496 1 0 Mar18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd If not. Use chkconfig (redhatian) or update-rc.d (debian) to set it to...

Just installed Fedora 13 and was getting a "Get QuickTime" prompt when trying to view trailers at www.apple.com/trailers: The Fix: yum install gecko-mediaplayer mozilla-vlc Caveats: Works with Firefox. Google Chrome, although it looks at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins...

So tonight my better, no I mean much better half, goes to log into facebook and it prompts her to register her computer. Huh? Seeing as you can pretty much individually identify a computer simply by examining the default information that the browser passes over when...

So Ubuntu 10.04 is a thing of beauty and typically I use it above other distributions.... However my spiritual Linux home is Redhat/Fedora I started out with it and even bought the Sybex RHCE book. I even think that the Redhat style of system-config-blah provides a...

Been having a look on the web for options that allow backing up a Linux box to a Windows box without first having to create a massive file on the Linux box. Found a good FTP option at http://www.squidoo.com/linux_backup namely under point 4: # login ftp...

Annoying problem "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" trying to delete a directory. Didn't want to reboot because I was running a VMWare VM at the time and well real operating systems don't make you reboot every time...

Just had an error in Windows 7-Zip 4.6.5 trying to extract a Linux tar archive. A reasonably large tar archive of 3.76 GB. Got this error: So fell back to using Cygwin Using tar -tf archive.tar allowed me to list the contents of the archive just fine. But attempting...

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