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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...
avidemux compile or I just wanted to rotate some video…
Ubuntu 9.10... avidemux is crashing everytime I try to run the rotate filter with a partial frame range. So I'm trying to compile it from source to see if I can get it running. What they don't tell you in the online install instructions is you have to compile both the...
Default Ubuntu 9.10 Empathy Chat Client doesn’t support MSN Video ATM
Googled and found this Empathy FAQ Points to Ubuntu Personal Package Archive with an Empathy package which includes MSN support here ==> https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa/ However I am getting a "503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle...
Sweet Home 3D
Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn't using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a...