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Kuala Lumpur

So KLIA2 ( Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 ) is a fair ways (40 minutes is ) from the city of Kuala Lumpur. We got an unmarked Taxi from there to Furama hotel for 120 RM ( Malaysian Ringo ) the exchange rate is roughly 3 RM to 1 AUD. Furama is a great hotel with...

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Getting WatchOCR Running on Fedora21

Download the debian WatchOCR package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchocr/ Extract the files instruction here ==> http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/ # unpack the deb ar vx package.deb # untar the data.tar.gz tar xvf...

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Alternative to PDFtk under Fedora 21

I wanted to join multiple pdf files together. I usually have used pdftk but it has been retired. You can get a pdftk source rpm but it depends on gcj and several other packages that have been superseded in Fedora 21. So an alternative is needed... # install...

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ATO AUSKey Under Fedora 21

The first question I had was which version of the Oracle Java Development Kit should I install? If you have firefox-34.0-1.fc21.x86_64 installed (note the x86_64) you need to install the x64 version of the Oracle JDK Do not do this: yum localinstall...

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