Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that...
I have 2 pdf files scan0126.pdf and scan0125r2.pdf and I need to combine them however page scan0126.pdf contains page 1 and 3 of the combined document and scan0125r2.pdf contains page 2. Re-order selected pages from multiple PDF documents into a new combined PDF pdftk...
I have a suspicion that my Remote SSL VPN server has an inactivity timeout on it and so I lose connectivity because of no traffic passing so it disconnects. Here is a one line bash script that wakes up every 60 seconds and pings a host at the other end of the tunnel...
From a mate of mine Norman Goh: Issue: You need to connect to a specific Active Connection from another computer or your computer rebooted and left an active session which you cannot connect to. When you connect you get the following error message; Solution: 1. Login...
I feel silly I've been right clicking and choosing rename... from the TortoiseSVN context menu and manually renaming files to move them into other directories. But... you can do a right click drag and drop which gives you a context menu with Subversion options. Very...
I got the skeleton of this script from another post. DISCLAIMER: Use this at your own risk. I am not responsible for any data corruption or loss that may occur if you decide to use this without first making sure it works for you. After playing around with it for hours...
In Gnome 3 you have to press ALT while clicking the System Settings menu (the menu accessed by clicking your username on the top right of the screen) to get the Shutdown (Poweroff) option.
You need to enable the unsupported SSH server on the ESXi box Then using the pscp utility that comes with PuTTY add -scp to the command line because the default sftp doesn't work. Here is an example of copying a file off the ESXi server from the command line of a...
I did this with a Ubuntu 9.04 bootable Live CD. Boot from the CD Choose to try Ubuntu without installing Start a command prompt (Applications ==> Terminal) # get root sudo su - # find your harddisks root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255...
I've just virtualized a windows XP workstation using VMWare Convertor and thought as a final pre wipe and rebuild excercise I would take a Ghost Image of the physical workstation. I have a Ghost.iso file with Windows PE and Ghost on it and I was trying to transfer it...