Just looking at Zenwalk. If it wasn't for my requirement to run VMWare Server without the hassle to compile non-vm patches to get it working. I would probably use Zenwalk as my primary desktop system. Nice things: XFCE: lighter than Gnome but just as pretty. Zenpanel:...
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XML Format Test
A string of XML: Text Node Send it through xmllint: echo 'Text Node' | xmllint --format - Output from xmllint: Text Node
/usr/bin/which equals bash builtin type -p
Just playing with wine-1.1.14 and found a font smoothing script that enables font smoothing on Wine >= 1.1.13. Anyway in the script I noticed a command: type -p wine Which after a little investigation is similar to which wine I like to make note of these sorts of...
Formatting Perl’s XML::DOM output
I have been taking some output from our ERP system into a webform destined ultimately for resubmission to the ERP. XML and it's relationship to HTML makes it perfect for the job. Therefore I have been using Perls XML::DOM to read and write some XML. One issue I have...
Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 3.0.1 Australian Spellchecking
I just removed all the standard Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 2.4.1 packages and installed Openoffice from Openoffice.org's download area by following the howto here. After going into Tools ==> Options ==> Language Settings ==> Languages and setting everything to English...
Subversion Working Copy Downgrade
If you jump from one distribution to another and then back to an older version one of the gotcha's can be that later versions on newer distro's can change your Subversion Working Copy repository data so it's unaccessible from the older distro. Case in point: On Ubuntu...
Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10, CentOS 5.2 FAIL. Return of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
OK so I attempted CentOS 5.2 as a desktop OS but it just doesn't cut it. You have to Google till you're cross eyed to get MP3/WMV support. Then when you enable the right YUM repositories you get cross repository conflicts that can't be resolved. Fooey. I also found...
Giving CentOS 5.2 a Whirl on the Desktop
OK so I've been using Ubuntu for about three releases but recently the quality of the Ubuntu builds has become an excercise in running into bugs that stop me getting my work done. e.g. tsclient renders X session unuseable when rdp'd into windows NetworkManager OpenVPN...
Fedora 10 – Network Interface not coming up
I have a Fedora 10 VM that wasn't bringing it's network interface eth0 up on boot. Even though the settings in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 were correct. The problem: the network service wasn't enabled The fix: run ntsysv or setup ==> services from the...
Clear Squid Cache CentOS 5.x
How: service squid stop rm -rf /var/spool/squid/* (removes cached files and directory structure) rm -rf /var/log/squid/* (removes the logs) squid -z (recreates the cache_dir structure) service squid start Why: Doing the above can be helpful if you want to claw back...
Running Cron Every X Minutes
I keep forgetting the correct format of cron entries to have a command run every three minutes To do it every three minutes you need to make the syntax */3 not simply 3 (which means on the 3rd minute of every hour) # m h dom mon dow command */3 * * * *...
Putting the I in Idiot – or I just deleted my External USB Drive Partition
The Problem: Doing a Windows XP Pro install at work... Boot Install CD Delete partitions Delete C: Hmm didn't know there was a D: but hey it's got to go.... Delete D: ... Oh No! That was my 250GB External USB drive holding a heap of backups.... Argggh The Fix: I have...
LedgerSMB Installation on Fedora 10 Notes
Overview Starting from Fedora 10 Live Installed to Harddisk. This is a a record of the chronological steps with all the errors I encountered along the way. As such it is a kind of messy and in a as it happened style. I will flesh these notes out as I have time. Email...
Fedora 10 – VMWare
Just attempted to install Fedora 10 under VMWare Server 1.0.4 on Windows. I chose the default "Other Linux 2.6.x" VM option, leaving the defaults except for configuring the VM's CD to be an iso image of the Fedora Live CD. Man was it slow... I traced the problem to...
Tesseract gotcha – tif works, tiff doesn’t
Problem tesseract mytiff.tiff myout Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine name_to_image_type:Error:Unrecognized image type:mytiff.tiff IMAGE::read_header:Error:Can't read this image type:mytiff.tiff tesseract:Error:Read of file failed:mytiff.tiff Signal_exit 31 ABORT....
Distribution Specific Documentation
Google - to find the best and worst solution, but which is which? Generally when you attempt something on Linux you will Google and then try and filter through pages till you find the `best' solution. But what gaurantee do you have that the information is written by...
Ubuntu 8.04 Printing Stops with /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip error
Problem: looking in /var/log/cups/error_log E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:03 +1100] PID 6548 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 2! E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:04 +1100] [Job 13] Job stopped due to filter errors. Cause: I think this was caused by me running sudo...
Beta means Beta Ubuntu 8.10 is definately Beta
So I installed the development version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 and thought this is great, but when it came time to drill down to actually using it I ran into the following. Network Manager PPTP client connects but builds tunnel which allows ping and smb to pass...