Update: See comment from Dave Cross below for a safer method of installing CPAN modules on an RPM system. The current wxPerl shipped with Fedora is Broken (version 0.91-1.fc11)... Still. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:...
This is a quick and dirty hack I use to kill the zombie processes left after running an ies4linux install of Internet Explorer 6. #!/bin/sh ps -ef | grep wineserver | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps -ef | grep explorer.exe | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9 ps...
If you are using Google Apps IMAP Mail in Thunderbird 3.0b2 you might have trouble sending email until you set your secure SMTP settings to look like this: I followed the online info Google posts but it looks like the new tb3.0b2 has some mislabelled settings. Once I...
I recently went from having a Linux CentOS release 5.3 gateway firewall running Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 to a Cisco 877 ADSL gateway. Very quickly my users complained of r_e_a_l_l_y slow internet. With only the Cisco 877 in place every single request was...
I recently had to create a reasonably meaningful batch number for some GS1 compliant SSCC labels. I have an Internet Explorer Interface that submits the request to our ERP system. Due to legacy issues the batch number was restricted to 6 numeric digits. Some...
The Fedora 11 Feature List seems to cover alot of the Ubuntu 9.04 ground. Everyone seems to be on the 20 second boot wagon. The only thing I'm presuming will be a problem is that you don't get a one click MP3 support install as for Ubuntu. So Fedora 11 still requires...
Note: This post isn't complete. I have this configuration working for myself, but the IPTables rules are taken from a very big script and may not be complete. Email me if you have a question or if you can explain this better. Anyway hopefully there is enough here to...
My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...
The Situation: I have just moved an Alcatel OmniPCX(old site) to replace an NEC Xen IPK(new site). And transferred the old sites 100 number range to run concurrently with the new sites existing 100 number in-dial range. Old Site: Good Alcatel PABX with good expansion...
I shifted my email for jamesmcdonald.id.au to Google Apps. However I have found an annoying behaviour for Gmail. Join an email list (I'm on [email protected]) with your Google hosted email domain. Send an email to the list. The traditional behaviour should be...