If you are using a provider like DigitalOcean or Rackspace and you are making use of their DNS management features. Then you might one day want to craft a SPF (Sender Policy Framework) TXT record. The SPF allows email servers to check if the sending server is kosher...
These are very brief notes to capture what I've been trying to achieve this evening with Linux OCR. WatchOCR I've downloaded and installed the WatchOCR deb package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchocr/ To get it running on Fedora 20 I had to use alien to...
If you are thinking of buying a second hand PC or laptop and you want to check comparative CPU performance. Do one of the below options and then plug the CPU model into http://www.anandtech.com/bench which will give you benchmark score results for each CPU. Very handy...
I use QCAD Professonal and love it, but in PCManFM which is the default filemanager for LXDE you just get a standard ugly icon for dxf drawings. I like the thumbnails to be a preview of the content of the file. So I downloaded dxf-thumbnailer from here...
Installed system-config-printer-gnome, cups and hplip to get printing from my Chromebooks crouton chroot going and then ran into an error when trying to run system-config-printer: ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gdk Tried a fix mentioned on the internet, but...
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (Model: GT-19505, Android 4.3 - Telstra image) which was circular rebooting at greater than 50% battery charge. Battery life was abysmal. I noticed the phone would get very hot. Sometimes the rebooting kept happening even when I put the...
I am trying to create a video of some photos I numbered them thinking that when I imported them into Pitivi they would appear in numerical order. Not so. They sort alphabetically 1,10,11,100 instead of 1,2,3,4. So to get the result I wanted I created a script to copy...
Just trying to enable nginx on Fedora 20 yum install nginx systemctl enable nginx.service service nginx start # or the new way systemctl start nginx At this point I still can't connect with a remote computer so need to figure out how enable the firewall to allow port...
The Challenge Heterogeneous Operating Systems I have a Fedora 20 Workstation, A HP Chromebook and also access to the Windows stable of Operating systems. When you need to offer remote assistance sometimes they have a Tablet or any mix of the above I bought a...
I use a backup script to gzip and then email my webserver backups to my gmail account. I was using the following line of code to attach the gzip / tar.bz2 files to an email. ( echo backup of $ETC; uuencode $DBDIR/$ETC $ETC ) | mail -s "Backup of $ETC $DATE" $TO...