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Gallery 2.x Thumbnail broken and won’t rebuild
Was just looking in my Gallery and found an image with a broken thumbnail. Broken thumbnails seem to be a semi-regular occurence. Normally if this happens I can use the Gallery 2.x photo edit functionality and; rotate the photo back and forth and the thumbnail...
Customize Squid Error Messages
If you edit the cache_mgr value in /etc/squid/squid.conf you can set an email address which will appear as the contact point in any error messages that Squid returns to it's browser clients. However this doesn't allow you to have different link text that is displayed...
Google Chrome for Linux no Acrobat PDF Reader Support
Update: Found this on the Google forums. When you see the grey screen when trying to view PDF on Linux Chrome. Hit CTRL-S and you can save it to disk and view it from there. It's beginning to look like Google Chrome for Linux is dead in the water as regards getting...
Opening a tar.gz file on Windows
Running tar for Windows, using this command: c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe -xzvf filename.tar.gz gives the following error c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe: Cannot fork: Function not implemented c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe: Error is not...
Industrial Ethernet Switches
If you are an IT person and you are employed by a Manufacturing company, it is probable that your IT umbrella covers at least some sort of control system/s. Controls Systems or SCADA, as they are called in the industry frequently have components installed in hostile...
Cannot get VMWare Remote Console on Ubuntu 9.10
Problems: Logging into VMWare Server 2.0.2 using https fails. Trying to create a VM fails several times. Trying to run VMWare Remote Console fails complaining about timing out because it can't get a session ticket. (sadly I didn't get the exact text of the error)...