I have been attempting to print 4" x 6" photos from my Fedora 15 install and the images (which I have edited with GIMP) have terrible pixelated edges near any fine detail where I have selected the surrounding region and filled with another colour. I was printing to...
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PHP FileInfo
Trying to get PHP to return the file type of an xcf image and it stubbornly refused to return what I wanted. Still can't get it to output image/x-xcf but I'm starting to think the compiled in magic data base of PHP doesn't include it and I haven't successfully loaded...
How to Troubleshoot Cron Scripts
It works from the command line. Why doesn't it work in Cron? ...insert head scratching here... Firstly run your cron job often so you can get some output. Use common sense here, obviously if the cron scripts takes 5 minutes to run then you would bump up the frequency...
Taking Screenshots of a Website in Linux
They said "James we need someone to check a website and make sure everything is OK over the weekend". Hmm OK... I'd rather not be tied to a laptop or hang around home so why not send an email with a screenshot to my Android HTC Desire. Search, search, search: And then...
seLinux – Mordac the Preventer of Information Services
The Problem: I was trying to do a mkdir using php in a cakephp file upload script and I got an error: 2011-10-18 21:55:48 Warning: Warning (2): mkdir() [http://php.net/function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in [/home/user/public_html/mapdb-dev/app_controller.php,...
CakePHP change a view to have an image upload field in it
# add array('type'=>'file') to the Form->create method < ?php echo $this->Form->create('Map', array('type'=>'file'));?> < ?php __('Add Map'); ?> < ?php # most fields are just normal automagic text/numeric/boolean fields echo $this->Form->input('name'); echo...
awk specifying multiple field separators
I want to extract the text "Windows 2008" sandwiched between [VM STORE] and "/Windows 2008.vmx" So I need two field separators ] for the left and / for the right. So for awk I use "[]/]" as the argument to -F. Then I need to trim the spaces using sed. echo "32 EDI...
Busybox ash shell workaround for not working IFS on VMWare 4ESXi
This doesn't work ~ # cat fstest.sh #!/bin/sh ALLFILES=`ls -1 "/vmfs/volumes/4c371e81-0c463360-dfe3-001d091edb9f/ERP WinXP Client/"` # I tried all sorts of things but this works with # the vmware busybox (ash) shell # this works you get correct field separation...
Splitting records by multiple spaces but not single spaces using awk
The default field separator on awk is one or more spaces so for the following vmware command output if you try to awk out a VM name which has spaces you get the first word of the VM name and not the full name. To fix you need to change the field separator in awk to...
OpenSuse 11.4 on HP Mini 110 – It works!
Talk about drama free install. Download the KDE LIVE ISO http://mirror.optus.net/opensuse/distribution/11.4/iso/openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso dd if=openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sde bs=8M Where /dev/sde is my 4GB USB Key. Press F10 on the HP Mini 110...
