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Using find & xargs to create an empty index.html file in every directory
If you have global indexing turned on for Apache: Options Indexes You may wish to leave it enabled but still stop indexes being displayed. Using find and xargs you can create an empty index.html in each directory and Apache will serve it instead of the list of files...
Maitland Waterproofing
I have just finished coding a website for a friend. He's running a Waterproofing business. I got him to do the waterproofing in my bathroom renovation, which he did a great job of. I was amazed at how neat the end result was (he used these cute little plastic dishes...
VTP connecting Cisco Trunk Ports accross non Cisco Switches
I have been trying to get VLAN's running between 2 Cisco Catalyst 2900XL switches linked by a Linksys SD208. I had some difficultly (I could ping through the Linksys to either Cat2900 switch but not access higher level protocols) until I Googled and read the...
Create a Favicon in GIMP and apply it to your WordPress Install
I have added a favicon.ico to this site. This is how I did it using GIMP. Open a picture in GIMP Image => Canvas Size (Change the canvas to be square) Unlink Width to Height Chain Increase the narrowest dimension (either width or height) to be the same as the widest...
vec2web missing text labels
vec2web is a dxf to png (and other format) convertor based on the QCAD libraries. I downloaded and compiled it. However when I ran it the text dimensions were missing. I discovered the reason for this is that vec2web needs to be able to find the fonts and resource in...
fixme:ntdll: … Can’t find matching timezone
I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on a laptop. I installed 9.04 by doing a distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 8.04 and finally to 9.04. I tried to run wine recently and came up against this error: fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone This error seems to...