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Finding your Thought Paradigm
I have recently finished reading a book on mind maps by Tony Buzan. In my working life I'm constantly getting deluged by different projects, or goals, all with multiple dependencies and when I try to get them straight by opening a word document and putting it `down on...
Password Obfuscation in VBS Admin Scripts
Sometimes you may want to authenticate to a remote share and do some admin task like create a zipped backup file on your local computer. The problem with the following script fragment is that the raw VBS file contains a plain text password. So how do you hide the...
www.smh.com.au redirects to m.smh.com.au when using Chromium on Ubuntu Linux
Looks as if smh's (Sydney Morning Herald's) browser user-agent detection code is not correctly identifying the "Chromium 6.0.472.63 (59945) Ubuntu 10.10" browser. Instead of giving you www.smh.com.au it redirects to m.smh.com.au I posted a work-a-round over at...
Ubuntu 10.10 – A thing of beauty
Usually I am aware of the latest version of the Ubuntu operating system arriving a little before it's release time. This is mainly because there is some new feature that I am hanging out to try or bug that I want to leave behind. This time around I've been happily...
yum update Metadata file does not match checksum
Just had yum update cause a "Metadata file does not match checksum" As usual Google had an answer but for me it didn't work... My error was caused by danguardian web filtering blocking the download of the yum repository metadata files Dansguardian is configured with...
LinkedIn – Facebook for Adults
Time sinks: Facebook Twitter Stumbleupon I find LinkedIn is less of a time chewer, of course you can have many hours of fun updating your profile to include just about every facet of work experience you've been through. Creative writing :). I'm noticing LinkedIn...