So just arrived in Siem Real after taking a 7 hour bus trip to cover 316kms. The roads between Phnom Penh and Siem Real were a mix of tar and dirt. I think in another few years the trip will take a lot less time once the roads are sealed. Our accommodation is lovely...
Phnom Penh wow. It's not as frenetic as Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh. There aren't as many bikes and there is less warning honking going on. The ride from the airport cost 9$ for a tuk tuk or 12$ US for a cab. We took a cab and our friends took a tuk tuk and we both arrived...
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...
I'm off on a 3 week lap of Asia. Taking along a Samsung GS4 with 1/3 of a day battery life so I don't think I'll be able to capture a full day of events. Although if I am judicious about starting early we might see photos of breakfast buffets... My wife is taking her...
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...
I have a folder in my home directory /home/$USER/scans that I use for dumping scans from a network enabled printer/scanner to my computer. I have used system-config-samba to share the directory. This is a default install of Fedora 21 which means that seLinux is...
Firstly once your guest is installed update it to the latest kernel and reboot yum update reboot Install development tools (amongst other things gives you gcc, make etc) yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install kernel-devel # I think dkms is important # so the...
VMotion to another datastore didn't work: Just trying to shrink an already thin-provisioned Windows XP VM which is using only 10GB of a 127GB C: drive I tried to run defrag, sdelete and then shutdown the VM and vmotion to another datastore with a target disk format of...
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 You can get a pdftk source rpm but it depends on gcj and several other packages that have been superseded in Fedora 21.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...
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...