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Owner Builder Exam Passed!
Just passed my Owner-builder exam online at http://www.ozob.com.au. Now I have to go to the office of fair trading and get an Owner-builders certificate. I am so not good at digesting regulations and understanding what needs doing. Funny how some things you do, other...
Ubuntu 9.04 Intel Video Fix
Since installing Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 I have had a problem with my Intel embedded graphics card not being able to play video. Mplayer Error Message: "X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)" Discover your Video Chipset: lspci -nn | grep VGA My Video...
imapsync – Migrating to Google Apps or Google Mail
Get the imapsync utility at https://fedorahosted.org/imapsync/ This was a successful attempt to copy all my email from my old dovecot powered server up to gmail using imapsync imapsync --host1 10.11.12.13 \ --authmech1 LOGIN \ --port1 993 \ --ssl1 \ --user1...
Website Design for Small Business
My sister is running a web design business. The reason I'm doing a post is that she is using Joomla as the CMS and leveraging many OSS plugins. It's amazing how good Opensource Software has become in the last year or so. Professional results for minimal outlay and no...
Simple Squid Proxy Check
Squid outage fail-over If you run wccp through a Cisco router and your Squid Cache falls over the router will fail over to serving pages directly. Seamless fail-over is good but So you may never notice that your Squid proxy has stopped responding. So you lose the...
wxPerl – Getting which button has been clicked
I've been using wxGlade to create wxPerl interfaces. This is a sample of how to get one subroutine to handle multiple keys. Clicking any key allows the subroutine to return the label text of which key has been pressed. Pressing a key will give a Wx::MessageBox I...