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It’s not cheating if you blog using OneNote 07
Wow. What a stupidly technological week. If doing I.T. was like eating fruit, I’d have a severe case of the runs. Database Modelling Ok, so the first interesting item this week was our Domain Model. A domain model, for … Continue reading
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Of server racks and linux distro’s
Ok, so for my industrial experience project, an opportunity to have a server housed in an ISP’s datacenter for our source control system was made available. What an excellent proposition, no bandwidth charges, fast link for everyone concerned (no more … Continue reading
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cp recursive preserve
cp -pr /directory/from/where-i-want-to-dig-deep-and-preserve attributes /directory/to
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Don’t locate
After installing Captive to read my NTFS partition, I noticed great periods of unexplained high CPU activity. I narrowed these down to mount.captive-ntfs and captive-sandbox-server processes. No files on my windows partition (mounted on /C) were being accessed to my … Continue reading
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Hacking SUSE Linux 10.1 « Linux and Open Source Blog
http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/05/20/hacking-suse-linux-101/#comment-34871 The linked site provides instructions on how to add non-oss software to Suse 10.1 to get various functions enabled.
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Menu’s menu’s everywhere, but nowhere to add them
I’ve been looking for a way to add non-package managed apps to the Gnome/KDE menus. Recently, I installed Firefox 2, Eclipse and Jude this way but have found links telling me how to remove items from the application menu, no … Continue reading
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The ridiculous time it takes to build Qt 4.2.1
Ok so I’m pretty green when it comes to installing and building linux applications on your own system. In the last week I think I’ve nailed it but now I’ve come to realise the pitfalls of this flexibility. I started … Continue reading
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Synaptics Touchpad Horizontal Scroll and Firefox
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad The most irritating thing about using Firefox on Suse and is having the horizontal scroll act as back and forward keys. The linked page gives a great insight into configuring Xorg.conf to take advantage of the numberous controls and … Continue reading
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Variables are easy to do
Variables are easy to do In my Amiga and MS-DOS days, I recall to set a variable you had to use a set command. Everytime I’m in a POSIX based system, I always forget how to set variables and the … Continue reading
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Viewing the System Log
You know how CTRL+ALT+F[1-6] gives you a virtual session, and CTRL+ALT+F7 gives you the X session, I read in the Suse Manuals that CTRL+ALT+F10 gives you the system log. Very helpful to quickly flip to while you are trying to … Continue reading
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Byron Bay
