Toggen Blog

Today I did my first attempt at committing some code to an open source project named xtuple, specifically the javascript part that supports the xtuple-mobile client https://github.com/xtuple/xtuple After posting a query about a translation issue on the xTuple...

If you are using a provider like DigitalOcean or Rackspace and you are making use of their DNS management features. Then you might one day want to craft a SPF (Sender Policy Framework) TXT record. The SPF allows email servers to check if the sending server is kosher...

These are very brief notes to capture what I've been trying to achieve this evening with Linux OCR. WatchOCR I've downloaded and installed the WatchOCR deb package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchocr/ To get it running on Fedora 20 I had to use alien to...

If you are thinking of buying a second hand PC or laptop and you want to check comparative CPU performance. Do one of the below options and then plug the CPU model into http://www.anandtech.com/bench which will give you benchmark score results for each CPU. Very handy...

I use QCAD Professonal and love it, but in PCManFM which is the default filemanager for LXDE you just get a standard ugly icon for dxf drawings. I like the thumbnails to be a preview of the content of the file. So I downloaded dxf-thumbnailer from here...