If you have global indexing turned on for Apache: Options Indexes You may wish to leave it enabled but still stop indexes being displayed. Using find and xargs you can create an empty index.html in each directory and Apache will serve it instead of the list of files...
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fixme:ntdll: … Can’t find matching timezone
I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on a laptop. I installed 9.04 by doing a distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 8.04 and finally to 9.04. I tried to run wine recently and came up against this error: fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone This error seems to...
Ubuntu Annoyances
Update: This has been fixed in Ubuntu 9.04. Excellent! tsclient is a Microsoft Remote Desktop work-a-like for Linux only better (it supports VNC, RDP, XDMCP & ICA) The bug: On Ubuntu versions greater than 8.04 it has a _really_ annoying bug. I call it the "tsclient...
Getting the HTML Tidy External Command working on Bluefish for Windows
Bluefish is a really cool "Web Development Studio" I find it's side pane CSS and HTML reference invaluable when trying to code HTML. It has recently been ported to Windows As it installs, everything pretty much works out of the box, but it's Linux heritage shows when...
Zenwalk 5.2
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:...
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...