OK so I've had this blog forever and I've been watching the traffic climb slowly but surely as people use the tech-tips and content. It's hovering between 150-300 per day. So I'm thinking maybe I should place some ads on the site and hopefully generate a small amount...
Check for two cpu flags. vmx and lm # this command will list all the flags # and highlight vmx and/or lm in colour (--color) if found. grep -E --color '^flags|vmx|lm' /proc/cpuinfo As you can see from this screen shot my old P4 doesn't support either Virtualization...
Recently I've been divesting myself of mailing list memberships and commercial email subscriptions. Why? - Because every email that hit's your inbox is a distraction. With mailing lists, it's usually a question which doesn't become an answer until the end of the email...
Mum took us to the airport. I've made the classic mistake of getting here way too early. Good news is there is wifi. I'm looking across at a youngish woman using an Apple (macbook I think). It's got this massive glowing apple on the back of the monitor. Brand is...
For future reference. http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/
I installed Ubuntu onto my HP Mini 110 using the Windows Ubuntu Installer (Wubi). A Wubi install of Ubuntu is basically virtual disk files sitting on top of the Windows 7 NTFS file system, and a mod to the windows 7 boot manager enables you to boot Ubuntu which uses a...
OK so I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a HP Mini and am currently finding and installing useful apps so that I can run it in a Windows environment. So I find I need: tsclient (with the following 2 apps also) rdesktop (Remote Desktop Connection to Windows Boxen)...
I use Putty to access a character application that makes extensive use of F1-F11 function keys so you can imagine how annoying it is to have to press the fn key every time I wanted an F1. So a trip to the BIOS and change the "Action Key Mode" to <disabled> And...
Install the Java components which are in java-6-openjdk or contained within ubuntu-restricted-extras: sudo apt-get install java-6-openjdk # I used this one because it gives a heap of oft needed codecs sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras To test goto:...
Trying to install Postbooks on a 32 bit Linux Mint 10 installation. There has been an error. /opt/xTuple/postgresql/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: libaudit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The application will exit...