Installed system-config-printer-gnome, cups and hplip to get printing from my Chromebooks crouton chroot going and then ran into an error when trying to run system-config-printer: ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gdk Tried a fix mentioned on the internet, but...
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (Model: GT-19505, Android 4.3 - Telstra image) which was circular rebooting at greater than 50% battery charge. Battery life was abysmal. I noticed the phone would get very hot. Sometimes the rebooting kept happening even when I put the...
I am trying to create a video of some photos I numbered them thinking that when I imported them into Pitivi they would appear in numerical order. Not so. They sort alphabetically 1,10,11,100 instead of 1,2,3,4. So to get the result I wanted I created a script to copy...
Just trying to enable nginx on Fedora 20 yum install nginx systemctl enable nginx.service service nginx start # or the new way systemctl start nginx At this point I still can't connect with a remote computer so need to figure out how enable the firewall to allow port...
The Challenge Heterogeneous Operating Systems I have a Fedora 20 Workstation, A HP Chromebook and also access to the Windows stable of Operating systems. When you need to offer remote assistance sometimes they have a Tablet or any mix of the above I bought a...
I use a backup script to gzip and then email my webserver backups to my gmail account. I was using the following line of code to attach the gzip / tar.bz2 files to an email. ( echo backup of $ETC; uuencode $DBDIR/$ETC $ETC ) | mail -s "Backup of $ETC $DATE" $TO...
I have a HP Chromebook with Ubuntu 12.04 running Mate Desktop and Insync Google Drive syncing software installed. I want to be able to see the sync status of my Google drive files while in caja similar to what I can do with the working dropbox integration: The problem...
So as of June 12 I'm no longer a full-time employee of Atlantic Pacific Foods. I will be doing some consulting work through "James McDonald IT Services". Seeing as http://jmits.com.au was a nice HTML site put together for me by my sister I've kept it as is for years....
Sometimes you want to batch convert office files from say .doc to .docx to bring yourself into the 2010's but you can't find a format convertor. LibreOffice has an application known as unoconv Which is very cool unoconv -l & # start the listener # convert a Word...
On May 19 2014 Google made an Algorithm change as can be seen at this Google Algorithm Change History page. Around the same time I moved my website from Rackspace to DigitalOcean Anyway, a day or so later I noticed a marked increase in daily traffic. I thought perhaps...