If you have even a small modicum of knowledge in IT you know the first rule of change management is "Before you do anything make sure you have a good backup". Well I've been using Ubuntu 9.04 since it's release and today the update manager gave me the option to...
Note: This works on Ubuntu 10.10 also This worked for me: # you may need to install the sun/oracle java first me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre # if you have only just installed then locate won't work use find instead me@mybox:~$ find /usr/lib/jvm -name...
I have my WordPress setup to display all the blog posts on the front page and the WordPress "Pages" as tabs on the navigation at the top of the page. However I also would like the navigation to point to other non WordPress areas of my domain and go straight there. For...
Just a note to self. The Symantec Endpoint Protection SyLinkReplacer (a utility used to rehome clients) doesn't seem to work if your target client has a non-standard windows directory. e.g. all my clients with c:\windows as the %WINDIR% worked fine. But anything with...
I am trying to write Perl code which is warning free, unless there is a real problem. Some of the code I was using to create an XML file using the "XML::DOM" Perl Module was throwing a "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at..." warning. The...
Just installed the Ubuntu 9.10 Beta and perusing the menus and I find under System ==> Preferences ==> IBus Preferences. Clicking on it causing a dialog: As far as I can tell IBus comes from here. From what I can tell it's an input framework that is probably some way...
The version number of Ubuntu is 9.04 and is based on the year and month of release. So 9.04 means 2009 month 04 (April). Therefore given that Ubuntu maintains a 6 month release cycle we can postulate: 4 + 6 = 10 So the new release 9.10 is due this month (October). And...
Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 9.04 Just installed Chromium (the Opensource browser Google Chrome is developed from). Very snappy. Seems reasonably stable for BETA software. So now we only have Chromium, Firefox, Konqueror, Lynx, w3m and other choices for Linux....
If you go to http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/ Microsoft has a heap of images... If you read the service agreement you will probably find that you would be better off using services that publish their content via a creative commons license or another open license....
Tip from here edit squid.conf vi /etc/squid/squid.conf Find the following section of squid.conf and add forwarded_for off # TAG: forwarded_for on|off # If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name # in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks...