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Just downloaded and spun up Fedora 16 Beta I've been having heaps of trouble with my sound on this box. But the new Fedora 16 Beta fixes the sound issues. No more background hiss.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

# 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...

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...

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...

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...