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Strange Behaviour In Shopping Centres
Today I was sitting in a shopping centre food court waiting for my wife to return. So I indulged in a spot of people watching. One particular person caught my eye. This woman had a hot chip in each hand and she was waving them both in the air. It almost looked like...
Quick & Easy Subnet Scan Using Windows XP Utilities
Open a cmd.exe session and enter the following. for /l %i in (1,1,254) do ping –w 100 –n 1 10.0.0.%i | findstr “Reply†Where 10.0.0. is replaced with your subnet address e.g. 192.168.20. Adjust the range of hosts you want to scan by change the first 1 in...
Disabling the Openoffice Splash Screen in Ubuntu 6.10 edgy
Not so easy. Normally one has to find sofficerc and change Logo=1 to Logo=0. I tracked down my copy of sofficerc to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/sofficerc and made the change and ... nothing happened. The copy of sofficerc above references a sofficerc at...
People must really read blogs
Just been checking out my apache logs. And there seems to be a lot of Blog Crawlers and other interesting access's going on. Probably just the mindless automatons sifting through things they can't comprehend. I wonder when their masters start to discriminate and value...
Sigh – People
Just as I was arriving at Bunnings to look at items for my bathroom renovation. I noticed some charming individual had purchased a car battery, and decided to change it in the car park, leaving the old one in the car space. Should I be suprised? No, I suppose I...
Open Source Mix & Match
I was just having a look at what packages I have cobbled together my website with, and here is my list. Ubuntu Edgy (I'm not a fan, prefer Fedora Core X, but can't spend the time to migrate back - Ubuntu is for users) Gallery 2 - Been using this for years and moving...