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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...
Telarah-Sydney-KualaLumpur-PhnomPenh-SiemReap-Bangkok-ChiangMai-KualaLumpur-Sydney-Telarah
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...
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...
Fedora 21 – Sharing a folder in your home directory with seLinux enabled
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...
Install VirtualBox Guest Editions on Redhat / CentOSian Systems
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...
Shrinking a thin-provisioned VMDK on a datastore with vmkfstools
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...