I have recently finished reading a book on mind maps by Tony Buzan. In my working life I'm constantly getting deluged by different projects, or goals, all with multiple dependencies and when I try to get them straight by opening a word document and putting it `down on...
Sometimes you may want to authenticate to a remote share and do some admin task like create a zipped backup file on your local computer. The problem with the following script fragment is that the raw VBS file contains a plain text password. So how do you hide the...
Looks as if smh's (Sydney Morning Herald's) browser user-agent detection code is not correctly identifying the "Chromium 6.0.472.63 (59945) Ubuntu 10.10" browser. Instead of giving you www.smh.com.au it redirects to m.smh.com.au I posted a work-a-round over at...
Usually I am aware of the latest version of the Ubuntu operating system arriving a little before it's release time. This is mainly because there is some new feature that I am hanging out to try or bug that I want to leave behind. This time around I've been happily...
Just had yum update cause a "Metadata file does not match checksum" As usual Google had an answer but for me it didn't work... My error was caused by danguardian web filtering blocking the download of the yum repository metadata files Dansguardian is configured with...
Time sinks: Facebook Twitter Stumbleupon I find LinkedIn is less of a time chewer, of course you can have many hours of fun updating your profile to include just about every facet of work experience you've been through. Creative writing :). I'm noticing LinkedIn...
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/iosw/tech/plicy_wp.pdf Not redundancy but using 2 links to provide extra bandwidth and segregate services requiring responsiveness for users (VPN, Outlook Web Access) from background tasks (Email download and delivery etc).
Problem C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd.exe Syntax error on line 62 of C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apa che2.2/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf: SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes Cause...
Just been having a world of annoyance with Thunderbird seg faulting. I don't know what caused it but I did install the Netbook Unity Desktop environment (which incidentally doesn't work on my box). So after the above I got: This fails myuser@mybox:~$ thunderbird...
Just received the below email from Spamwise. They harvested one of my email addresses from my blog, so they could send me an email, to tell me my email addresses could be harvested by Spammers, with the stated intention of reducing unnecessary emails. So anyway, I try...