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...
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...
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...
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...
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 * * * *...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...