After the Edward Snowden Revelations it's probably a bad idea to store your documents unencrypted in the cloud. Unless of course you have nothing to hide, no desire for privacy, and store nothing financially sensitive, and believe the US government is unswervingly...
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exfat – “You art not known to me by default” says Fedora 21
While in Kuala Lumpur on a one day layover before flying back to Sydney. I went a little bit nuts buying Kingston 512GB USB sticks from street vendors for 10MR( Malaysian Ringits) (About 3$ Australian). The USB Keys you can buy in Australia are generally from 4 -...
Cambodia – Last day in Siem Reap
So I haven't been able to regularly post anything because my phone has absolutely terrible battery life. But as I sit here with my phone plugged into the wall I will attempt a summation of the last several days. Our hotel is the Angkor Heritage Boutique Hotel. And it...
Getting WatchOCR Running on Fedora21
Download the debian WatchOCR package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchocr/ Extract the files instruction here ==> http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/ # unpack the deb ar vx package.deb # untar the data.tar.gz tar xvf...
Fedora 21 – Sharing a folder in your home directory with seLinux enabled
I have a folder in my home directory /home/$USER/scans that I use for dumping scans from a network enabled printer/scanner to my computer. I have used system-config-samba to share the directory. This is a default install of Fedora 21 which means that seLinux is...
Install VirtualBox Guest Editions on Redhat / CentOSian Systems
Firstly once your guest is installed update it to the latest kernel and reboot yum update reboot Install development tools (amongst other things gives you gcc, make etc) yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install kernel-devel # I think dkms is important # so the...
Shrinking a thin-provisioned VMDK on a datastore with vmkfstools
VMotion to another datastore didn't work: Just trying to shrink an already thin-provisioned Windows XP VM which is using only 10GB of a 127GB C: drive I tried to run defrag, sdelete and then shutdown the VM and vmotion to another datastore with a target disk format of...
Alternative to PDFtk under Fedora 21
I wanted to join multiple pdf files together. I usually have used pdftk but it has been retired. You can get a pdftk source rpm but it depends on gcj and several other packages that have been superseded in Fedora 21. So an alternative is needed... # install...
ATO AUSKey Under Fedora 21
The first question I had was which version of the Oracle Java Development Kit should I install? If you have firefox-34.0-1.fc21.x86_64 installed (note the x86_64) you need to install the x64 version of the Oracle JDK Do not do this: yum localinstall...
Pinterest: Opps! We’re having some trouble talking to <website>. Please try again later!
Just tried to add a Pin to my "Home and Beauty" board on Pinterest and received: Had a look at the image I was trying to pin and its resolution was 2282x2282 pixels...


