This presumes you know about the security implications of having pages served from you home dir and have taken appropriate precautions to stop unauthorized access: # add a new directory section to apache sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default Alias /mapp/...
Remember in XP when you could press F3 type in the file contents you were searching for and be confident you would be able to find all the files that contained a search term. That is no longer the case. You can dig around the W7 Search menus and tell Windows 7 to...
GIMP is a great program. Once you start using more of it's features you can have a lot of peripheral dialog windows cluttering up your screen. Here is a short video I made on how to combine GIMP dockable dialogs into one dialog box and lay them out so you don't need...
A good simple howto on writing letters and envelopes using LaTeX. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Letters
I wanted to create a cgi-bin directory which would allow me to execute the files and also to view a directory index of them. This is the default setup for the system cgi-bin directory but it wouldn't allow me to do what I wanted. ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/...
I just had the need to take a GIMP XCF file and create several different types of output images from it: PNG File JPEG File Resize to thumbnail in JPEG format 2x2 Tiled PNG with black and white borders Using the Imagemagick and xcftools you can do it all via the...
Just installed Bluefish for Windows and let it take control of alot of the files that you might want to edit including .VBS files (Visual Basic Script). After which I got the following error: C:\Users\myusername\Desktop>cscript DownloadAndConvert.vbs Microsoft (R)...
Recently updated my Cygwin install on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Workstation. Tried to run startxdmcp.bat and got a Cygwin X error - failed to activate core devices Looking in /var/log/XWin.0.log showed nothing obvious as to why the X server failed to start. Ran Cygwin...
I don't do a lot of programming, and the languages I use are all interpreted (Perl, VBS, Kix, PHP) and not compiled. So people can easily see the mess I make of code. But I do like to know, at least, how to do things correctly. With regard to Javascript there are many...
I un-installed all the hplip packages on the box from the Software Manager to start with. Then I followed the instructions here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/linuxmint.html You definately need the latest hplip tarball. (I used...