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Every now and again, as an exercise in vanity, I type "James McDonald" into Google Search to see where in the scheme of things I rank according to them. Today I typed in my name and was surprised to see this website is on the first page of results. Usually I would...
I have a Windows 2003 SBS SP1 box on a Dell PE750. As a disaster recovery trial I decided to try and recover it to a Dell PE1950 which obviously has different hardware. The PE750 has "Intel Pro/1000 CT" nics and the PE1950 has "Broadcom NetXtreme II GigE" Nics not to...
Java will not run unless I do the following hack which will set the environment variable system wide. vi /etc/environment PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_AU:en"...
I have upgraded Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 in the dev branch some things aren't working. I installed the latest openoffice from OpenOffice.org and it wouldn't install using the provided java installer and when I installed it using the deb download it couldn't find Java....
I swapped from a bridge adsl modem setup (the connection is defined and terminates as ppp0 on my Linux box) to a ADSL Router setup where the username and password is in the ADSL Router itself. The problem was that my Linux box still had the pppoe connection defined...
I have been asked several time recently whether free(as in beer) antivirus programs are 'just as good' as the paid "Name Brand" offerings. The short answer is no. However if you are cash strapped then you really should install some sort of virus protection even if...
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At work I get phone calls from users asking where file or folder X is. Instead of starting into explaining the path to the user and then explaining which key is the backslash key, I have found it easier to copy the path into an email and send it to them. I have a...
I have found if you go to http://smh.com.au and try and do a search for "RSS Channels" the link doesn't appear in the first page of results ... so they don't advertise the RSS feed very well and I haven't found the ubiquitous RSS logo on the frontpage either. The...