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Windows Solitaire vs AisleRiot Solitaire
If you have a vision impaired person who wants to play solitaire then ditch Windows and Install a Gnome Desktop based Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Fedora etc). The cards in the Windows version of Solitaire are tiny. However the cards in the AisleRiot Solitaire in Gnome...
Ubuntu Disk Stuff – running fsck at next reboot
How to schedule a disk check for the next reboot. As root or using sudo do the following: Method 1: Use the forecfsck file method touch /forcefsck shutdown -r now Note: This command seems to check all partitions when run Method 2: Up the mount count above the fsck...
Google Chrome – Please click File, Save As Linux
Google Chrome is out and it's only currently available on Windows. However not one to be peturbed by the tiresome differences between Windows and Linux I've got it installed on Wine 1.1.4. thanks to this page. The only issue at the moment is that it won't load https...
VMWare ESXi is now Free. But can you use it?
I recently attended a Newcastle Infrastructure Users Group meeting, which is hosted by Forsythes IT. The topic for the evening was VMWare and they had a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer from VMWare going through some of the amazing technology, for example. VMotion: The...
Who’s down with FTP not the new IE!
How often do you get someone say "I have a file that is 10MB+, can I send it to you via email?" and it's over the size that you or your email provider can accept. You don't want to try and teach them how to zip a file into smaller chunks or burn to CD and send via...
Windows 2003 SBS Server – Multiple Faxes Pending and Not Sent
Just had a situation where I had to send 29 faxes from a Windows XP Pro SP2 box to a Windows 2003 SBS server. So I did the following: Scanned the item I need to fax to 300dpi tiff format. Import the names / address / fax details from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook...