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I just had the following experience: I sat down in front of my desktop computer which isn't connected to the internet at the moment. My HTC Desire Android based phone told me it needed a recharge so I plugged it in to my computer for a bit using it's USB cable. It...

I'm playing with upgrading a Ubuntu 9.04 installation and ran into the "An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool." and I had no idea what version `lucid' was. To find the version of the currently running Linux box use lsb_release -a...

How to set your Ethernet card back to eth0 I have a Ubuntu 9.04 JEOS (Just Enough OS) Virtual Machine running under Virtualbox. I have upgraded my host machine several times, converted the VM from VMWare to Virtualbox, moved the VM from one disk to another, created a...

Symptoms: Go to twitter.com and try to browse to a user profile and you get an "Aw, Snap" page. Resolution: Using information at http://blog.randell.ph/2011/06/11/fix-for-aw-snap-while-loading-twitter-in-fedora-15-with-selinux-enforcing-enabled/ Do: Fix the current...

Put here for posterity. How to make sure standard error and std out go to the bit bucket. # crontab line 0 16 * * 1-5 /home/batch/getShipping/getShippingDetails.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

I used to maintain another file for user email signatures but that is really daft when you can store and maintain it in AD. This is how to grab the users details from Active Directory using Kixtart Script. $oADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") $strUser =...

Just had a problem with a failing Windows Update on a Windows 2008 R2 Server "Windows Update Error: 8024402F" On further investigation found that dansguardian was denying the connection to the cab file because the word "babe" was in the URL: # the following was all on...

Just had a situation where a user couldn't open a 9MB excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet had heaps of formulas and links. When opening Excel sat there with (Not Responding) in the Title Bar. Attempted a few things in an attempt to fault find the problem: Tried...