How to schedule a disk check for the next reboot. As root or using sudo do the following: Method 1: Use the forecfsck file method touch /forcefsck shutdown -r now Note: This command seems to check all partitions when run Method 2: Up the mount count above the fsck...
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Google Chrome – Please click File, Save As Linux
Google Chrome is out and it's only currently available on Windows. However not one to be peturbed by the tiresome differences between Windows and Linux I've got it installed on Wine 1.1.4. thanks to this page. The only issue at the moment is that it won't load https...
VMWare ESXi is now Free. But can you use it?
I recently attended a Newcastle Infrastructure Users Group meeting, which is hosted by Forsythes IT. The topic for the evening was VMWare and they had a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer from VMWare going through some of the amazing technology, for example. VMotion: The...
Who’s down with FTP not the new IE!
How often do you get someone say "I have a file that is 10MB+, can I send it to you via email?" and it's over the size that you or your email provider can accept. You don't want to try and teach them how to zip a file into smaller chunks or burn to CD and send via...
Windows 2003 SBS Server – Multiple Faxes Pending and Not Sent
Just had a situation where I had to send 29 faxes from a Windows XP Pro SP2 box to a Windows 2003 SBS server. So I did the following: Scanned the item I need to fax to 300dpi tiff format. Import the names / address / fax details from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook...
gOS Beta 3 – Really is Beta
Installed it and found several useability issues that were show stoppers for me. wbar is a nice idea visually, but not being able to restrict launched applications to a certain area of the screen meant the wbar got occluded by applications and then you are up for...
The YouTube Icon doesn’t work in gOS 3 Beta
Been trying to run Youtube from the desktop of gOS 3 Beta. Nadda Zip is happening. The cause: No permissions to the desktop file ls -al /usr/share/applications/youtube.desktop -rw------- 1 root root 216 2008-08-05 01:02 /usr/share/applications/youtube.desktop The fix:...
Convert Redhat 3.1 VMWare Server VM to VMWare ESX Server 3i using VMWare Convertor – Error loading operating system
I just attempted to convert a Redhat 3.1 VMWare Server 1.04 VMImage using VMWare Convertor 3.03 to VMWare ESX Server 3i v 3.5. The VMWare Convertor conversion completed successfully and loaded the VM to the ESX Server however when I booted the VM on the ESX Server I...
The subst work-a-round for an un-installer complaining about a missing drive
When un-installing applications in an environment where you have my documents re-directed to a mapped network drive for example "H:\My Documents" you may get an error and the un-installer will quit. (I think may be an installshield error) Sometimes you don't really...
OCR – Tesseract
Just made a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to use Tesseract OCR. Here is a sample: "|I11;XII;"1n -¤:2;;2:¤ LIEEEEEEE.-::2;;;: nz ’‘·* *--2.. ::2;;: "=I;;;. :1:;*-- ::2;£2|a:‘¤I;;;.XXi.X ·¤:;1;;¤· X;|:;t1X '!EEEXI|· XXXIIEX--EXIIXX-.:21:;. -·¤a.;¤¤a..a··...
