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When Super Tankers Attack
On 8 June 2007 the Pasha Bulker ran aground in Newcastle. Just found these photos so thought I would post them.
Setting up Gnome Desktop to use DIA in Single Window Mode
On Fedora 17 install the menu editor program named alacarte. yum install alacarte Launch it and find dia under Graphics and click properties In the properties window edit the lauch command to include --integrated as shown Now when you launch Dia you should have nicely...
UMBrello KDE UML Diagram Creator
Update: Not a fan of Umbrello has a lot of features for UML but too many functionality gotcha's and bugs (from a user stand point I can't comment on it's UML implementation because I'm a newb on UML) I ran into the can't a Anchor a Note to an Activity with error...
QCAD 3
My most favourite open source application QCAD is now at version 3. I buy a license for the "Pro" version because it's just a fantastic easy to use product. At my $DAYJOB today I found out QCAD 3 (I was using RC5) can open dwg files so now it's as useful to me as the...
Setting wget to use a HTTPS proxy
Edit /etc/wgetrc for global change or ~/.wgetrc for a per user change and add: http_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 https_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 ftp_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 Where 192.168.50.22 is the IP Address of your proxy server and 3128 is...
How do I do a Driveway – Maitland City Council
Maitland publishes some standard drawings which may be very handy for people such as myself who are trying to get a handle on the requirements for improvements and additions to a house. To get them: Go to Maitland Councils Website Hover over Planning & Development...