Let's say you are attempting to re-life a domain controller onto new hardware. To do this you need to install the base machine with the same name as the old DC and bring the new machine to the exact same patch level as the original then restore from backup over that...
Just tried to install some oggs onto my wife's iPod Shuffle 1G and using the add Files button from within GTKPod I get an error similar to: /usr/share/gtkpod-aac/scripts/convert-2mp3.sh exit status 5 I had to install the following to make it work. sudo apt-get install...
So I just finished transferring my Gallery 2.3 installation from my old server to Dreamhost. gFTP has been replaced by FileZilla In the past on Linux I have used GFTP to do FTP uploads but have found it buggy. This time I used FileZilla and I must say it performed...
In RPM based distros you can issue the command rpm -qf /usr/bin/dig and it will return the installation package name I don't know if this is the 'proper' way to do it but it works: dpkg-query -S dig | grep /usr/bin/dig dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig
If you have delegated your DNS to another hosting provider you may want to send yourself an email when your DNS domain delegation has propogated (so you can notify people after the change and not have everyone saying "I can't get to your site"). Create a script as...
So I have moved my domain to dreamhost.com Why? Got sick of my home computer being a VMWare Server. Couldn't reboot or upgrade when I wanted Computers are evil time suckers. Moving my website means I don't have to worry if it's up, down or sideways. dreamhost.com can...
When I forward a message I like to have the option of scrolling through the content and commenting in between the paragraphs of the forwarded message. Thunderbirds default behaviour is to forward messages as attachments: However to be able to edit the forwarded email...
You have several places that templates exist in LedgerSMB /var/lib/ledgersmb/css/ for the LedgerSMB user interface templates and /usr/share/ledgersmb/templates/demo for the Latex / HTML report output templates. Run the following commands as root (or sudo command):...
This post is a step by step guide to installing LedgerSMB 1.2.18-1 on Ubuntu 9.04. Download ledgersmb_1.2.18-1_all.deb # Install postgresql sudo apt-get install postgresql # Install the PDF / PS utilities sudo apt-get install texlive # Install Perl Dependencies sudo...
I logged into my Ubuntu VMWare Guest and found the time had drifted by about 15 minutes... I have seen all sorts of conjecture as to why you should / shouldn't run ntpd to keep your vm time in-sync. So I thought I would install vmware-tools... which does it for you....