If you are running Virtualbox as your logged in user and you can't see your USB devices you need to add yourself to the vboxusers group, log off and back on and then run virtualbox. You should be able to see the USB devices now.
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Acrobat Reader install Fedora 17 Beta
yum install glibc.i686 yum install libxml2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gdk-pixbuf2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gtk-x11.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install gtk2.i686 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install...
Internet Glue – You want me to interface what with what?
In my role I am increasingly having to create bridges between systems that can output and read text in different formats such as CSV, XML or some other custom format. This site http://flatfiler.blogspot.com.au/ appears to have links to whole heap of handy text...
If you get an attachment that contains “begin 644 …. end” you need sharutils uudecode to open it.
My wife received a file named Voucher.pdf from a motel we were going to stay at. When she attempted to view it her email client on her iPhone failed to open it. She forwarded it to me and I got the same result on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (yes we are a Apple/Android...
Google Public DNS
Just discovered that Google has some Public DNS servers that you can use. More details here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Pro Given that Googles infrastructure is global and rock solid I presume that the DNS service will be just as good. Con...
Graphic jamesmcdonald.id.au Traffic Drop from April Onwards
Now if I can just figure out what is causing it
Fedora 17 FTW
Just installed Fedora 17 Beta into a Virtualbox VM and two things I notice. It's an evolutionary improvement to Fedora 16, and the Gnome 3 interface is miles ahead of Ubuntu 12.04's Unity desktop. (OK, I admit I can't get used to Unity's left dominant menu style.)...
Example of using STDIN and STDOUT with VBScript
Creating a filter for Formtrap Forms Server to modify a barcode passed in from the ERP system. launch it with Here is the script 'takes print stream and strips batch suffix to leave YDDD ' don't muck around read the...
Remove .svn directories from a working copy linux then copy new .svn copies back to it.
Warning: This is a procedure that can bork your working copy. Backup and test to make sure you can recover before you even think about doing this. Regarding this post: http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/2009/01/25/how-to-recover-from-checksum-mismatch-errors-in-svn...
Different Options for Cron Job Standard Output and Error Output
A cron job I have created to run a backup script every week day at 5:10PM # m h dom mon dow command # backup simple invoices and subversion repo # every week day 10 17 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/backup.sh Here are some different command output redirection options Redirect...
