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Ubuntu cannot Ping a FQDN when avahi-daemon is running
My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...
Transferring a 100 number in-dial range to a new site
The Situation: I have just moved an Alcatel OmniPCX(old site) to replace an NEC Xen IPK(new site). And transferred the old sites 100 number range to run concurrently with the new sites existing 100 number in-dial range. Old Site: Good Alcatel PABX with good expansion...
Google Apps – Annoyances
I shifted my email for jamesmcdonald.id.au to Google Apps. However I have found an annoying behaviour for Gmail. Join an email list (I'm on [email protected]) with your Google hosted email domain. Send an email to the list. The traditional behaviour should be...
Sendmail from the command line
echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f [email protected] -t [email protected] Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...
Linux /tmp size for DVD burning
I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...
IIBYGTKBP – If it breaks you get to keep both parts
IIBYGTKBP. I saw this acronym on the linux-users email list A Google didn't enlighten me. So I delved into wet memory and came up with what it means by recalling the poster who used the full version of IIBYGTKBP in the past. So here it is - IIBYGTKBP: If it breaks you...