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Excel 2010 has Rows… and Columns
Been a long while since I upgraded MS office so the jump from 2003 to 2010 has come as a supprise. 2003 65535rows x 256columns 2010 1048576rows x 16384columns A big step up. Only thing I noticed is if Office 2010 is in "Compatability Mode" meaning it's running to...
Create Self-Signed Apache SSL Certificate on Debian / Ubuntu
Firstly you need to install the correct package to have the make-ssl-cert command available: sudo apt-get install ssl-cert Then do the following as root or prepend sudo to each command: Create a self-signed certificate using the make-ssl-cert utility make-ssl-cert...
Reset the File Permissions on a Fedora Machine
Just recently I discovered a problem caused by a trial software install. Files in /usr had been changed to be owned by someone other than root. (postgres). I did try to fix the problem by running chmod root:root /usr -R But I'm not confident that everything is now...
Can you burn a CD ISO to to a DVD-R
Just digging in my desk draw looking for a CDR to burn a 32bit Ubuntu Desktop Edition iso (ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso) to and discovered I didn't have any. But I did discover a DVD+R. So using Brasero (The Gnome ISO Burner Program under Linux (Fedora 15)) I burn't...
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT).
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeBSD 8.2. Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT). Looking in the $LOCATION_OF_YOUR_VM/Logs/VBox.log file: 00:00:00.850 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: r0; VRDE Module: unusable because of...
xTuple Postbooks Install on Fedora 15
If you're trying out xTuples Postbooks on F15 64 bit you may need to install some extra libraries because of errors thrown during install: "There has been an error. /opt/xTuple/postgresql/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: [libkrb5.so.3|libaudit.so.0]:...