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...
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Printing PDF documents from QCAD and Ubuntu Linux 7.10
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...
Ubuntu 7.10 – NetworkManager OpenVPN control only works in “Roaming Mode”
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...
The Relentless March of technology – Linux is now partying like it’s 1999
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...
nLite to the rescue – Or how I installed a 3rd party Via Raid Driver without a floppy
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...
Lightening Strikes and DSL goes bye-bye
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...
OpenVPN has a GUI – openvpn-admin
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...
Fedora / Ubuntu fstab differences
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...
Location of vmware-any-any patch
The fix download the latest vmware-any-any patch and untar it and run the runme.pl script.
Grant Access to MSDE DB using Windows Group
Trying to get an MSDE going with the SQL gui. These are my personal notes. osql -U sa -S SERVER\INSTANCE Password: ****** 1. Give the group the ability to login to the MSDE Instance use master go EXEC sp_addlogin 'DOMAIN\domainGroup' go 2. Grant Access to DB (still...
