I recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org's 2.2.1 The next upgrade YUM wanted to do was going to downgrade it back to 2.2.0-14. etc. To stop YUM doing this I added the following into the '[main]' section of /etc/yum.conf exclude=openoffice.org* Information is...
On the recent posts menu I have a title: squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found. Internet Explorer 7 somehow mis interpreted the forward slashes as HTML entities and I had a gap between the previous title and the "squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found."...
Note: These Notes don't yet give a working F7 wxPerl environment. I am currently trying the wxperl-users mailing list to see if I can get some information on why Media.pm isn't being compiled/installed. I am having all sorts of problems trying to get the latest...
Just tried this nice clean interface for speed tests with multiple ISPs http://www.ozspeedtest.com/bandwidth/
I just had a DSL plan change to a 1500/256 line. So I thought I would try and upgrade my Speedtouch Home. The firmware is here For some reason the Speedtouch Home modem that I have had for years won't accept a firmeware upgrade when using Firefox. I had to install the...
In the Fedora version of Squirrelmail if you turn the fortune plugin on to get a quote on the top of your mail folders you may get the following error: /usr/games/fortune is not found. This is because Fedora puts fortune in /usr/bin the...
I have been using madman for indexing and organising my music and recordings for about three years. Each time a new distribution comes out I sometimes need to recompile it. Which I did recently for Fedora 7. I did at one stage write a spec file and get it all nicely...
I have been using Exetel for a couple of years now. Why do I think they are great? The most cost effective ISP in Australia - AFAIK A fixed IP on your DSL connection means you can have your own web presence without having to resort to dynamic dns The notification...
If you run a flavour of Linux as your Operating System. Chances are you'll appreciate the number of little tweaks you have to make, to get it 'just how you want it' (I wonder if someone has TM'd those words yet?). I have recently moved from `Ubuntu 7.04' to `Fedora 7'...
The font size for the <code> </code> tags was tiny using sumanasa.com's template so I did the following to improve the display. This was for firefox I don't know if it was bad in ie. Open style.css and add code { font-size: 9pt; }