WARNING: I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS PHONE, THE SELLER OR ALIEXPRESS I am adding an update to this original post as there have been some developments. I bought two of these phones (one for me and one for my sister-in-law) and we have had nothing but... » More
On a Linux desktop one thing I miss is the ability to easily add metadata (exif / iptc) to the images I upload to stock photo websites. Adding this metadata makes it much easier to submit the same photo to multiple websites. The 'File Info' command in... » More
I wanted to use Autofs to auto-mount the shares on my Netgear ReadyNAS upon entering specific directories so... Install pre-requisites: sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs sudo gedit /etc/auto.master Add the line: /mnt/nas... » More
I had this problem today: wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string When I was trying to run Winetricks: sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 Until I realised that I was trying to run winetricks as root rather than... » More
I was trying to explain to a colleague a few days ago how a few shell commands can be really useful, when today I came across an example to try to illustrate. My problem was that I had 245 log files each about 70-80MB in size - roughly 4 million lines in... » More
For future reference: I installed Amavisd on CentOS and configured it to be used within Postfix following instructions here and here. I had also configured ClamAV and Spamassassin but those instructions are for another day. yum install... » More
I noticed one of our Windows 2008 servers running low on space on the C: drive and used Disk Usage Analyzer to scan the disk. I had been suspecting the winsxs directory as this has been a culprit in the past: However, this time it turned out to be... » More
The length of time it was taking after logging in to get Dropbox started was beginning to get on my nerves. The following worked for me: Open the Dropbox Preferences dialog and disable the option for "Start Dropbox on system startup" Next... » More
This week I started playing around with PHP and a honeypot mailbox I had created some time ago. The following PHP is what I have been using thus far - plenty more work to do: $hostname = '{imap.domain.uk:143/notls}INBOX'; $username =... » More
I decided to do a bit of checking on the proxy.pac file we were using. I grepped through our Apache access log files to pull out all of the IP addresses accessing the file over the year: zgrep "proxy.pac" ./2013-??-??.access_log.gz | awk '{print $1}'... » More
WARNING: I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS PHONE, THE SELLER OR ALIEXPRESS I am adding an update to this original post as there have been some developments. I bought two of these phones (one for me and one for my sister-in-law) and we have had nothing but... » More
