Overview Starting from Fedora 10 Live Installed to Harddisk. This is a a record of the chronological steps with all the errors I encountered along the way. As such it is a kind of messy and in a as it happened style. I will flesh these notes out as I have time. Email...
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Error Installing SimpleInvoices
Fail I haven't been able to install SI on U8.10 there are alot of problems with the Ubuntu 8.10 enviroment. Incorrect mysql_pdo modules etc... Nightmare ... SI installs fine on Fedora 10. Problem: On Ubuntu 8.10 Server I get "Warning: Smarty::include()...
Fedora 10 – VMWare
Just attempted to install Fedora 10 under VMWare Server 1.0.4 on Windows. I chose the default "Other Linux 2.6.x" VM option, leaving the defaults except for configuring the VM's CD to be an iso image of the Fedora Live CD. Man was it slow... I traced the problem to...
Tesseract gotcha – tif works, tiff doesn’t
Problem tesseract mytiff.tiff myout Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine name_to_image_type:Error:Unrecognized image type:mytiff.tiff IMAGE::read_header:Error:Can't read this image type:mytiff.tiff tesseract:Error:Read of file failed:mytiff.tiff Signal_exit 31 ABORT....
Distribution Specific Documentation
Google - to find the best and worst solution, but which is which? Generally when you attempt something on Linux you will Google and then try and filter through pages till you find the `best' solution. But what gaurantee do you have that the information is written by...
Databases in MSDE
Login using osql Windows Auth osql -E SQL Auth osql -U sa List databases 1>sp_databases 2>go To list the tables in a database 1>use dbname 2>go 1>sp_tables 2>go To show the table structure 1>use dbname 2>go 1>sp_help table_name 2>go Attach a DB exec sp_attach_db...
Ubuntu 8.04 Printing Stops with /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip error
Problem: looking in /var/log/cups/error_log E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:03 +1100] PID 6548 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 2! E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:04 +1100] [Job 13] Job stopped due to filter errors. Cause: I think this was caused by me running sudo...
Beta means Beta Ubuntu 8.10 is definately Beta
So I installed the development version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 and thought this is great, but when it came time to drill down to actually using it I ran into the following. Network Manager PPTP client connects but builds tunnel which allows ping and smb to pass...
PopTop PPTP Server + Linux Gateways
Suppose you have the following configuration Priv Network A---Windows XP Clients | Linux gateway (iptables NAT etc) | [Internet] | Linux gateway (iptables GRE and PPTP port 1723 NAT'd and forwarded to internal PPTP server) | Priv Network B---<linux PPTP Server>...
rpm2cpio: not found error OpenOffice 3 installation on Ubuntu 8.10 (dev)
I went to Openoffice.org and blindly downloaded the default package "OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz" which is the wrong package for Ubuntu 8.10. The Fix: Go back to openoffice.org, under "I want to download OpenOffice.org" click the "Get more platforms...
