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...
I have in the past used Ghostscript to rotate PDFs however this time I used a utility call pdftk On Ubuntu 7.10 it is easily installed using the command: sudo apt-get install pdftk To rotate a pdf 90 degrees to the right (the entire document in this example) you run...
I use an excellent open source CAD package QCAD which I pay about 49$ P.A. to have the latest version for both Linux (home) and Windows (work). Under Linux it can export as high quality PDF using the "File ==> PDF Export" function but the size of the PDF is quite...
I have a workstation with a fixed IP address. I also from time to time connect to a PPTP VPN tunnel and a OpenVPN tunnel. NetworkManager (nm-applet) in Ubuntu has the ability to connect to both types of tunnel. However this only works when the eth0 interface is in...
I sit here writing a blog entry on a Ubuntu 7.10 box. I have a 3GHz CPU 200+ GB of Hard disk space and a 19" monitor. I haven't used computers all through my life. I started in earnest in 1999 (I was 26) finally deciding that I should use the Grey Matter I was given...
Just have had the worst day trying to get an OS onto an old P4 which has an Asus P4P800 mboard and an embedded via raid controller. After a disk corruption caused by running chkdsk /f C:. Update: Looks like the disk corruption wasn't caused by my disk check because...
Just had some pretty severe electrical storms here in the Hunter. So my boss rings me and says that her Linksys WAG54G (DSL + 4 Port Ethernet + Wireless Router) power light is blinking. Sadly the resolution suggested on the website which is reflash it's firmware...
I just discovered openvpn-admin a mono based GUI application for controlling connection and configuration of the openvpn ssl vpn package (which rocks btw). It's available from Sourceforge. One thing I found was it needs to be run as root however it's annoying to have...
If you're used to the traditional /dev/hdXX format the new Fedora/Ubuntu fstab entries may throw you. Ubuntu uses UUID* which is found / set by using the vol_id utility vol_id -u /dev/sda2 a0584727-1c8b-48df-867b-9e3b5a453ff7 The Ubuntu fstab entry for the /dev/sda2...