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Long Term Electronic Storage of Purchase Receipts
Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that...
Re-order PDF’s using pdftk
I have 2 pdf files scan0126.pdf and scan0125r2.pdf and I need to combine them however page scan0126.pdf contains page 1 and 3 of the combined document and scan0125r2.pdf contains page 2. Re-order selected pages from multiple PDF documents into a new combined PDF pdftk...
Keeping an OpenConnect SSL VPN Tunnel Open (Hack to avoid inactivity timeout)
I have a suspicion that my Remote SSL VPN server has an inactivity timeout on it and so I lose connectivity because of no traffic passing so it disconnects. Here is a one line bash script that wakes up every 60 seconds and pings a host at the other end of the tunnel...
Trying to Connect to a specific Remote RDP Session on a remote computer and you get the “Exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections” message
From a mate of mine Norman Goh: Issue: You need to connect to a specific Active Connection from another computer or your computer rebooted and left an active session which you cannot connect to. When you connect you get the following error message; Solution: 1. Login...
TortoiseSVN – Moving multiple versioned files
I feel silly I've been right clicking and choosing rename... from the TortoiseSVN context menu and manually renaming files to move them into other directories. But... you can do a right click drag and drop which gives you a context menu with Subversion options. Very...
ESXi 4 VM Backup using unsupported SSH login and ftpput
I got the skeleton of this script from another post. DISCLAIMER: Use this at your own risk. I am not responsible for any data corruption or loss that may occur if you decide to use this without first making sure it works for you. After playing around with it for hours...