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Our Chickens discover there’s no place like home
We had a bit of an episode today. Lisa (my wife) decided she was going to mow the lawn and as she went past the chicken coop they (3 chooks) freaked out and flew over the 6' high fence into our and the neighbours backyards. Lisa had to climb the fence and grab one...
Thunderbird Address Book Synchronization using SyncKolab
I use Mozilla Thunderbird for accessing my home email from work, which I connect to using ssh tunneling. For Calendaring support I have the Thunderbird plugin Lightning. My email account is hosted on an IMAP server. My problem was how to keep my Thunderbird address...
Error: Missing Dependency: libc-client.so.2006 is needed by package php-imap
Error: Missing Dependency: libc-client.so.2006 is needed by package php-imap To fix it I did: # remove the package that is causing the complaint yum remove php-imap # do the update yum update # install php-imap it will then pull in the correct version of...
Enable Windows Remote Desktop Remotely
If you have ever installed a server, then gone offsite and tried to connect using "Remote Desktop Connection" (mstsc.exe) and found it not responding because you forgot to allow for Remote Connections... you may have had an arrrgggh moment. Here's how to enable it...
Putty GTK2
PuTTY is an excellent Telnet and SSH client for Windows and Unix. I have used it for all my IT Career to access my Home and Work Linux boxes. I now exclusively use Linux at home, but found the GTK1.2 PuTTY client to be a bit aged. However, while not listed as a...
Chicken Jail Break
Recently we became the proud owners of 4 chooks. This morning my Wife calls out and says that one of them was outside of the pen. I presume she got out by jumping onto the coop and then over the 1.8m high wire fence. Looks like I'm going to have to do some wing...