Problem: Just tried to use mget to get all the files in a remote directory and it prompted me to accept each file with a y/n. This is because by default smbclient prompts to accept each file when using the mget command. smb: \> cd PDFs smb: \PDFs\> mget * Get file...
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Using Google Maps to Roughly Determine Your Distance from the Local Telephone Exchange
ADSL performance is predicated on a number of factors. Of primary importance to the potential speed of ADSL is the distance of your house from your local Telephone Exchange. Using Google maps you can roughly calculate your distance from the exchange: You need to know...
The Linux `at’ command
Cron does repeating jobs at runs one off jobs. So can be handy You need the `at' package yum install at The at daemon must be running ps -ef | grep atd root 2496 1 0 Mar18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd If not. Use chkconfig (redhatian) or update-rc.d (debian) to set it to...
Apple.com Trailers for Linux
Just installed Fedora 13 and was getting a "Get QuickTime" prompt when trying to view trailers at www.apple.com/trailers: The Fix: yum install gecko-mediaplayer mozilla-vlc Caveats: Works with Firefox. Google Chrome, although it looks at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins...
Facebook – The data persistence specialists
So tonight my better, no I mean much better half, goes to log into facebook and it prompts her to register her computer. Huh? Seeing as you can pretty much individually identify a computer simply by examining the default information that the browser passes over when...
F13 Installer – Oh what a wonderful mess
So Ubuntu 10.04 is a thing of beauty and typically I use it above other distributions.... However my spiritual Linux home is Redhat/Fedora I started out with it and even bought the Sybex RHCE book. I even think that the Redhat style of system-config-blah provides a...
Backup Linux to a Windows Box
Been having a look on the web for options that allow backing up a Linux box to a Windows box without first having to create a massive file on the Linux box. Found a good FTP option at http://www.squidoo.com/linux_backup namely under point 4: # login ftp...
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Annoying problem "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" trying to delete a directory. Didn't want to reboot because I was running a VMWare VM at the time and well real operating systems don't make you reboot every time...
Windows 7zip Fails to Extract a Tar Archive created on Linux
Just had an error in Windows 7-Zip 4.6.5 trying to extract a Linux tar archive. A reasonably large tar archive of 3.76 GB. Got this error: So fell back to using Cygwin Using tar -tf archive.tar allowed me to list the contents of the archive just fine. But attempting...
Australian Online Computer Component Sellers
www.staticice.com.au www.megabuy.com.au www.auspcmarket.com.au www.onlinecomputer.com.au www.eyo.com.au - Based at chipping norton. Reasonably easy to navigate their website. I have purchased 2 or three boxes from them. Found them reliable....
