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Fedora 16 Screen Flicker
After the last updates on Fedora 16 (x64) I have been suffering from really bad screen flicker. My PC has these specs. Specifically a "ASUS GeForce GTS 450 Direct CU Overclocked 1GB" Graphics card driving a BenQ T2200HD. The symptoms are that when I alt+tabbed between...
How many bags of cement do I need to make 1 cubic metre of concrete?
Currently (Dec 2011) doing fence posts and some small concrete pads around the house so I need to self mix the concrete Here is a good example of what is required from the "General Purpose Cement Product Data Sheet" on Boral's Site General Purpose Cement Product Data...
Cisco SSL VPN using openconnect demonstration video
The openconnect package summarizes itself as the "Open client for Cisco AnyConnect VPN". Here is a youtube video showing an openconnect session being started from the command line: http://www.youtube.com/embed/zBEUylO12vI I tried creating a connection via the...
Generate Custom XML with Perl CGI.pm
I want to output custom XML without any HTML or DTD tags using CGI.pm Here is my hack to get what I'm after: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard -any); # use the -any option to turn on custom tags # e.g. I can use $r->item("Item Content") to create # Item...
Running around Headless with VirtualBox (Oracle Edition)
This is a script I use to start up a headless instance of virtualbox Run as root but it fires the vm up as the user you use virtualbox as. #!/bin/sh # Output of "vboxmanage list vms" # #"Windows XP Pro" {5998c1ff-f354-4d7d-b36d-987090351cb6} #"JMITS LSMB"...
Cisco SSL VPN on Windows XP SP3 – Remove Microsoft JVM and Joyous Shouting Results
I have a Windows XP Pro SP3 Virtualbox VM that I have been using to test connectivity to a Cisco ASA 5510 SSL VPN. Problem: Using Internet Explorer 8 and trying to launch an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) session. It created a memory error and then Internet Explorer...