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Offering Remote Support from a Chromebook using Teamviewer
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...
Work around for uuencode attachments not displaying in Thunderbird 24.5.0
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...
Chromebook with Crouton and Ubuntu 12.04 caja / insync integration fail
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...
jmits.com.au transferred to Eleganthemes Divi theme over WordPress
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....
(Almost) Universal File Format Convertor unoconv
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...
Google Algorithm Change Traffic Increase
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...