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Error Installing SimpleInvoices
Fail I haven't been able to install SI on U8.10 there are alot of problems with the Ubuntu 8.10 enviroment. Incorrect mysql_pdo modules etc... Nightmare ... SI installs fine on Fedora 10. Problem: On Ubuntu 8.10 Server I get "Warning: Smarty::include()...
RIP – Foo the Fighting Fish
Sadly Foo our Siamese Fighting Fish was found motionless in the bottom of his tank this morning (18/12/2008).
Fedora 10 – VMWare
Just attempted to install Fedora 10 under VMWare Server 1.0.4 on Windows. I chose the default "Other Linux 2.6.x" VM option, leaving the defaults except for configuring the VM's CD to be an iso image of the Fedora Live CD. Man was it slow... I traced the problem to...
Tesseract gotcha – tif works, tiff doesn’t
Problem tesseract mytiff.tiff myout Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine name_to_image_type:Error:Unrecognized image type:mytiff.tiff IMAGE::read_header:Error:Can't read this image type:mytiff.tiff tesseract:Error:Read of file failed:mytiff.tiff Signal_exit 31 ABORT....
Distribution Specific Documentation
Google - to find the best and worst solution, but which is which? Generally when you attempt something on Linux you will Google and then try and filter through pages till you find the `best' solution. But what gaurantee do you have that the information is written by...
Databases in MSDE
Login using osql Windows Auth osql -E SQL Auth osql -U sa List databases 1>sp_databases 2>go To list the tables in a database 1>use dbname 2>go 1>sp_tables 2>go To show the table structure 1>use dbname 2>go 1>sp_help table_name 2>go Attach a DB exec sp_attach_db...