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Speeding Up Evolution Mail Client Mail Download when Connected to GMAIL
Written 12 years ago. Published from Drafts April '25 I have been observing woeful performance when clicking on a message in my gmail inbox from Evolution 3.6.3 on Fedora 18 (and from F15-17 too btw). If I click on several messages then evolution can hang for minutes...
VMWare Doing a Clone and Generating a New SID – Sysprep
Install a new VM from ISO as normal Configure as per normal I joined domain, name etc. Install latest patches. Boot VM and run c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe Select OOBE and tick generalize box, Choose the shutdown option. In vSphere right click VM and choose...
I’m feeling sympathy for someone at Roam.com.au at the moment
Written 11 years ago. Published from Drafts April '25 Ever tested a mass email campaign and accidentally sent it to the wrong people. Here is what that looks like: And this is what it looks like once it's discovered: And this is what firefox looks like when it...
gtk-recordmydesktop+ffmpeg+audacity+pitivi
GTK-RecordMyDesktop is a great app for taking screen video's with sound. However on my Fedora 20 workstation. The sound recording is atrocious. The sound coming from my head phone mic into the recording of my desktop screen video is noisy and sub-par. To improve...
Kiblat
Last edited 10 years ago. Retreived from Drafts and published April '25 Just waiting for our ride to airport and noticed a sign stuck to the ceiling of our hotel room. Apparently Kiblat indicates the direction to Mecca. One learns new things every...
xTuple
This was from my Drafts folder Last edited 10 years ago. Published April '25. I don't use xTuple anymore. I have been using Simple Invoices to track invoices for James McDonald IT Services. The problem with Simple Invoices isn't that it's a bad program, it's just that...