Problems: Logging into VMWare Server 2.0.2 using https fails. Trying to create a VM fails several times. Trying to run VMWare Remote Console fails complaining about timing out because it can't get a session ticket. (sadly I didn't get the exact text of the error)...
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Can’t send a ° Degree Symbol by SMS
A completely useless factoid I just discovered. I used the Windows character map to copy and paste a degree symbol (°) into my PC SMS application and sent it to my mobile phone. What arrived at my phone was the letters "Ao". So for those of you wondering, you...
Maitland has a Jaycar Electronics Store
If you like electronic gizmo's and live in the Lower Hunter Valley Jaycar electronics has opened a store in Maitland
ZTE MF332 Access Denied During Driver Install
After installing the Telstra Turbo Card Manager and plugging in the MF332. It should just plug and play install and you are away. Problem: However today I found that most of the components are successfully identified and installed but the "ZTE Diagnostics Interface"...
Geany – A fast and lightweight IDE
Just looking at Geany... Chose File ==> New ==> From Template and chose Latex.. And Geany has Latex command completion. So all you need to do is start typing \sec and it brings up a pick list of options.... Cool.
Telstra T106
Just purchased a cheap-as-chips ($89AUD) Telstra T106 pre-paid phone made by http://www.zte.com.au. On the pro side: I find it a little more ergonomic but less refined mechanically than the Nokia 6120C It has a built in stop-watch a feature missing from my previous...
Enable Access to Samba Shares on your Ubuntu Box with ufw
If your Linux box is a Samba Server and you wish to enable access to it from other computers on your LAN. Use these ufw commands to work the magic. sudo ufw allow proto tcp from 10.11.12.0/24 to 10.11.12.19 port 445 sudo ufw allow proto udp from 10.11.12.0/24 to...
LaTeX Coolness
Sorry if this is nerdy but, I love LaTeX... Professional quality beautiful typesetting. You can create attractive documents with just an installation of tex-live and a text editor. You also need to install the tex-live extra's sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra...
Cisco NAT
This may come in useful in $FUTURE http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=486
Creating Ledgersmb Database Live & Test Environments
Warning: This setup can be dangerous if you forget which environment you are in you can cause damage to your LIVE environment. Login to postgres as a superuser and use \l to list your databases me@lsmbbox:~$ psql -U ledgersmb -h localhost Password for user ledgersmb:...
