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Adding Sydney Morning Herald RSS Channels to Firefox
I have found if you go to http://smh.com.au and try and do a search for "RSS Channels" the link doesn't appear in the first page of results ... so they don't advertise the RSS feed very well and I haven't found the ubiquitous RSS logo on the frontpage either. The...
House – Todo List
Fix rusted Gutters Install a large Rainwater Tank Install large downpipes and pipe them to the Tank Provide better subsoil drainage around house Remove the Outhouse Plant a Vegetable Garden Install a Car Port & Replace Shed with new one Cement Bag the Peers Renovate...
The week in sport – If you could call house renovation sport that is.
Dishwasher - Finally Despite my motivation being negatively geared. I did manage to install a Dishwasher which is such a watershed moment. We never had a dishwasher while I was growing up and all through my flatting years we never had one either. So here I am trying...
Rotating a document using pdftk
I have in the past used Ghostscript to rotate PDFs however this time I used a utility call pdftk On Ubuntu 7.10 it is easily installed using the command: sudo apt-get install pdftk To rotate a pdf 90 degrees to the right (the entire document in this example) you run...
Printing PDF documents from QCAD and Ubuntu Linux 7.10
I use an excellent open source CAD package QCAD which I pay about 49$ P.A. to have the latest version for both Linux (home) and Windows (work). Under Linux it can export as high quality PDF using the "File ==> PDF Export" function but the size of the PDF is quite...
Ubuntu 7.10 – NetworkManager OpenVPN control only works in “Roaming Mode”
I have a workstation with a fixed IP address. I also from time to time connect to a PPTP VPN tunnel and a OpenVPN tunnel. NetworkManager (nm-applet) in Ubuntu has the ability to connect to both types of tunnel. However this only works when the eth0 interface is in...