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# get a list of your virtualbox virtual machines [me@mtbox ~]$ vboxmanage list vms "Windows SBS Server 2011 Trial" {d0c766e8-252b-4016-a37f-db60894230eb} "LSMB" {259dea54-ef0a-48c2-b06c-fa164e87abab} "debian-6.0.2.1-amd64" {91b7ca3-2162-470e-aadf-df46046a468c} # start...

Overview: I want to connect from a Windows 7 workstation to a Fedora 15 Computer using FreeNX How I did it On Fedora install FreeNX Server (Note: you already need to have the OpenSSH server installed and working) yum install freenx-server This is all I had to do to...

I have a deep and abiding annoyance with online loan calculators. I blame them for being: Clumsy Restricted Self-Interested So when I found that Open/Libre Office has good support for calculating repayments it has come as a relief....

If you get a web page with "Advert blocked" on it, it's not very descriptive, but basically it's dansguardian (a web filter) stomping on an Advertisement: To find out more about the problem I changed the dansguardian report setting "reportinglevel = 3" to...

Problem: Running wupdmgr on a Windows XP Pro SP3 Box throws "[Error number: 0x800A01B6]." in Internet Explorer Trying wupdmgr on several Windows XP Pro Boxes and the error is duplicated. Cause: Cisco ASA firewall configured to do ActiveX Filtering blocking the Windows...

Just attempted to run qcad and got an error as follows [me@mypc qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86]$ ./qcad ./qcad: error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Found that my 64 bit version of libXrandr on...