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...
The fix download the latest vmware-any-any patch and untar it and run the runme.pl script.
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...
Using osql log into the database osql -S SERVERNAME\INSTANCENAME -U dbusername Password: ********* 1>use dbname 2>go 1>SELECT * INTO new_target_table FROM old_source_table 2>go
The following is useful if you have say a 10GB C: drive and it's on a larger Hard Disk and you would like to enlarge it. I don't go into the nitty gritty of using fdisk under Linux so it might be a bit abreviated if you're a newbie. Boot from Knoppix CD Once booted...
Using cygwin with ImageMagick installed you can resize entire directories of jpegs using the convert utility for i in `ls *.jpg`; do convert -resize 30% -quality 80 $i conv_$i; done The 30% made images with a resolution of 3072 x 2304 pixels (approx 1.6 to 2.1MB each)...
Just installed it under Windows XP. Seems a lot more friendly as far as the interface goes. A good preview is located here