If, like me, you lack a certain amount of inspiration when trying to generate secure passwords pwgen may be the answer for you. It has heaps of options (see below) and can assist you to generate new secure passwords for your users. Thanks to the cygwin project you can...
I just attempted to use md5sum.exe under windows... In a putty session on a Linux box I ran md5sum and then copied and pasted the output to a text file under windows... [thejayster@abigbox thejayster]$ md5sum live-bak-200909250216AM.tar.gz...
Just needed to unpack an rpm on my Ubuntu Box so I could send my brother one of the chkconfig init.d scripts. To do it required the following: sudo apt-get install rpm # need this for rpm2cpio utility rpm2cpio therpmyouwantounpack.rpm | cpio -idmv
I have a Symbol VC5090 mobile computer. The Symbol remote control client starts at 1400+ AUD and rises from there. So to work around this I Googled for vnc for Windows CE 5. Download efonvnc from sourceforge here. You need the ARM version for the VC5090 Because the...
The benefit of having a sister doing web devel. Handy tip on how to see your Joomla Module positions: http://www.cageofwords.com/?p=266
This is a very quick script to resize all files of type jpg to 1024x1024 (longest edge becomes 1024 pixels) and name them "1024-originalfile name.jpg" using ImageMagick for Windows Open a command prompt and cd into the folder containing your jpg's and run the...
I was reading some Dell promo stuff talking about intel vPro technology which gives the ability to boot a remote computer which has been shutdown as long as it's got a network connection and power to the motherboard. Amazing stuff. And having it would mean you can...
I have just returned to using subversion for my work related documentation. The reasons: subversion in comparison to git allows you to easily check out 1 directory in the repository and then re-commit that back as needed. (because each directory in a subversion...
If you are churning from one DSL supplier to another with a line speed change make sure you are getting the new line speed. I failed to check that I had indeed gotten the requested line speed change and only discovered it due to complaints of slowness. Shows you what...
Since installing Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 I have had a problem with my Intel embedded graphics card not being able to play video. Mplayer Error Message: "X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)" Discover your Video Chipset: lspci -nn | grep VGA My Video...