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gOS Beta 3 – Really is Beta
Installed it and found several useability issues that were show stoppers for me. wbar is a nice idea visually, but not being able to restrict launched applications to a certain area of the screen meant the wbar got occluded by applications and then you are up for...
The YouTube Icon doesn’t work in gOS 3 Beta
Been trying to run Youtube from the desktop of gOS 3 Beta. Nadda Zip is happening. The cause: No permissions to the desktop file ls -al /usr/share/applications/youtube.desktop -rw------- 1 root root 216 2008-08-05 01:02 /usr/share/applications/youtube.desktop The fix:...
Convert Redhat 3.1 VMWare Server VM to VMWare ESX Server 3i using VMWare Convertor – Error loading operating system
I just attempted to convert a Redhat 3.1 VMWare Server 1.04 VMImage using VMWare Convertor 3.03 to VMWare ESX Server 3i v 3.5. The VMWare Convertor conversion completed successfully and loaded the VM to the ESX Server however when I booted the VM on the ESX Server I...
The subst work-a-round for an un-installer complaining about a missing drive
When un-installing applications in an environment where you have my documents re-directed to a mapped network drive for example "H:\My Documents" you may get an error and the un-installer will quit. (I think may be an installshield error) Sometimes you don't really...
OCR – Tesseract
Just made a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to use Tesseract OCR. Here is a sample: "|I11;XII;"1n -¤:2;;2:¤ LIEEEEEEE.-::2;;;: nz ’‘·* *--2.. ::2;;: "=I;;;. :1:;*-- ::2;£2|a:‘¤I;;;.XXi.X ·¤:;1;;¤· X;|:;t1X '!EEEXI|· XXXIIEX--EXIIXX-.:21:;. -·¤a.;¤¤a..a··...
KixTart – Finding out if a user is admin
There is supposed to a macro @PRIV that will return if the user running the kixtart script is an admin or not. However if you have given yourself local Administration priveleges by adding a domain group you are a member of to the local Administrators Group then @PRIV...