I had an issue with Adobe Reader 8.1.1 printing Landscape layout on Portrait paper (not rotating properly). However it appears that the new 8.1.2 has fixed this. So if you are having problems with printing PDF's under Ubuntu 8.04 Devel try upgrading to Adobe Reader...
Open Source Apps
Sometimes xpdf does the job where Acrobat Reader 8.x can’t
Just about everything in the GNU/Linux world is working pretty much as advertised these days. I had an interesting issue with trying to print a restaurant menu from Legends Grill at The Vintage which incidentally is where we had our Wedding reception a few years ago...
Current Reading or “Let’s get down to business”
Hi Mum 🙂 These are the current titles I am ingesting. The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber How to Grow Your Business by taking 3 Months Off - Louise Woodbury & William De Ora How to Organize and Operate a Small Business in Australia - John English As the economic...
Avoiding arguments while sharing a computer with your wife.
My Wife and I share a workstation which is a Ubuntu 8.04 development release box and while my wife prefers Windows, we are sharing till we get another computer. Anyway the way I have it configured, is to have one user account on the computer which is configured for...
Change LedgerSMB Latex (PDF / PS) Paper size from Letter to A4
Letter paper is 215.9 x 279.4 A4 paper is 210 x 297 So when you go to print you may have slight problems with page layout when printing A4 or exporting to PDF. The fix is as follows: In each Latex template find the line near the top that has the letterpaper keyword...
LedgerSMB Error! No GlobalDBH Configured or Could not Connect
Error! No GlobalDBH Configured or Could not Connect Just had this error attempting to install LedgerSMB. In my case this was caused by having postgres-8.3 installed and then installing postgres-8.2 the second installation moved the tcp port to a non-standard port...
SQL Ledger can’t view Open POS Invoice
On Line 2333 of SL/Form.pm add single quotes to $expires variable # remove expired locks $query = qq|DELETE FROM semaphore WHERE expires < '$expires'|; $dbh->do($query) || $self->dberror($query); Error: **DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR: operator does not exist:...
GNUCash Heading Banner Graphic Setup
I have been playing with the correct graphic resolutions to get my GNUCash Fancy Invoice header to print correctly. I think I have stumbled on the correct settings. This is for a PNG format Heading Banner file. Using gimp I did the following: Explanation: Using the...
SQL Ledger
Problem: Error! This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./1204165120_invoice_1.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. !...
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...
Setup for Cross Compiling of wxWidget for Windows on Fedora 7
I haven't managed to get wxWidgets-2.8.5 to compile using MinGW and the w32 target under Fedora 7. The following was an attempt but sadly not a working one. Install MinGW Download the following from http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/packages/fc2/...
Ubuntu 7.10 – C compiler cannot create executables – putty compile
Fresh installation of Ubunut 7.10 from disk. No updates. download and compile putty-0.60.tar.gz command ./configure error: C compiler cannot create executables fix: apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev apt-get install gcc apt-get install build-essential ./configure make -f...
IE7 Embedded Squirrelmail Login JavaScript Error
I have embedded my Squirrelmail login into the front of my wordpress blog by putting into the header.php the following function The default squirrelmail code uses the format document.forms[0]. this causes the code to see the first form on the page which may not be...
Stopping Notepad++ Re-Opening Files from the Last Session
I found the default Notepad++ behaviour of opening the files that were open last time annoying (if I was programmer the default would be fine). To turn it off: Open Notepad++ Click Settings ==> Preferences ==> MISC Tab Uncheck the "Remember the current session for...
WordPress Exploit Appearing in Apache Logs
This appeared in my Apache logs this morning: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions ... rm%20-rf%20kk*?: 1 Time(s) Looking back through the logs the full request was: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions/mygallerybrowser.php?myPath=...
Getting around IE misrendering a title with forward slashes in it
On the recent posts menu I have a title: squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found. Internet Explorer 7 somehow mis interpreted the forward slashes as HTML entities and I had a gap between the previous title and the "squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found."...
Enlarge font for the <code> </code> tags
The font size for the <code> </code> tags was tiny using sumanasa.com's template so I did the following to improve the display. This was for firefox I don't know if it was bad in ie. Open style.css and add code { font-size: 9pt; }
Disabled comments bug on Sumanasa Design02 1.0 Theme by Sumanasa.com
Problem: Disabling comments causes right sidebar to start below left content section and to lose formatting Cause: comments-nice-bg and comments-nice divs are repeated cause the close tags to be in the wrong spot Resolution: Firstly make sure that your...