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New Computer Time – Online PC Sellers
I am in the market for a new home-business desktop system. I currently have a P4 3.0GHz with 2GB RAM and embedded Video. My brother bought me a second monitor and we haven't been able to get a compatible video card to drive two monitors. So I think it's new computer...
Wine Fonts are all Squares in Fedora 12
I recently installed my first Wine application in Fedora 12. This was the result: The fix: Download spec file from http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/packages/SPECS/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.1.spec (don't use the default corefonts spec file. This spec file has been modded to...
Fedora 12
Installed F12 last night and am just typing this to you now from it. Seems a tad more stable than Ubuntu 9.10. Installed using the LIVE CD "Install to Hard Disk" option which doesn't include OpenOffice or GIMP. With a default install I didn't have to install extra...
New Guttering Installed
After 3 days of struggling with scaffold my Wife and I have finished the guttering. We sourced the Guttering from a sheetmetal product company in Newcastle Hancock Speedway When ordering the guttering I used my trusty QCAD, an Opensource 2D CAD Program to provide a...
VM’s on Ubuntu 9.0 slow
Update: My logs were filling up with CPU temp warnings. Cracked the case and found that the the old P4 CPU heat sink was completely clogged with lint causing temps over 75deg C. Some judicious vacuuming and shortly after the CPU temp was in the mid 50's. Performance...
Enable your UFW firewall remotely without disrupting SSH
An example Home/Work setup: If you enable ufw remotely without specifying a correct ssh rule you may lock yourself out of your remote Ubuntu box. Before you can setup an ssh allow rule you need the following configuration and information: Port forwarding TCP port 22...