Toggen Blog
Tech tips
Articles
Latest
ipcalc – Removing the brain work from subnetting calculations
I've just been nosing around the Fedora 8 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions script and noticed a call to a utility named ipcalc. Seeing as I usually spend quite some time trying to figure out how to calculate the correct subnets for a given subnet mask...
Can’t find adsl-setup script in Fedora 8
I have just been trying to find the good old adsl-setup command in Fedora 8. No good! system-config-network was a no go either. No option to configure a pppoe connection. pppoe-setup looks like it has replaced adsl-setup. Problem solved move along. Nothing to see...
Ubuntu 8.04 Firefox 3.0 Java Error when using Gallery 2 Upload Applet
I got this error "error:java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError" on the status bar of Firefox 3.0 while attempting to load Gallery 2's Java Upload Applet. Looks as though the IcedTea Java plugin is not compatible with the Upload Applet The fix: sudo apt-get remove...
First Eggs! and 2 New Isa Browns
OK so this morning I had a more thorough look for eggs and lo and behold in the back of the coop, in the most private corner are two eggs We weighed them and the first eggs are 46 + 48 grams. We haven't identified which of the 3 girls are the actual layers yet And...
Linux serial console
I had to test a console cable to see if it was indeed a console cable. The piece of equipment I was connecting to was outputting a garbled console leading me to wondering if I had a bad cable or a bad piece of equipment. Using the serial-console howto at...
My notes on using gimpsvn.sh to install Gimp 2.5.x
I wanted to try and install the latest version of the GIMP So I googled and found this blog with a nice gimp svn download and installation script named gimpsvn.sh cd ~/gimp-build My notes: Do make a directory such as gimp-build and cd into it mkdir ~/gimp-build cd...