This problem arose after a failed Fedora 14 -> 15 upgrade via: yum –releasever=15 –disableplugin=presto distro-sync (via the Fedora project Wiki). Long story short, it turns out that cpio depends on liblzma.so which was partially upgraded, so rpm (which uses cpio,…
Wow, it’s been a long time!!! Ok so here’s a quick tip. I installed Libre Office 3.6.2.2 on a stock Fedora 16 (64-bit) install, and it looked, well…… kinda dated, right? Yeah, not the end of the world, #FirstWorldProblems and…
I recently replaced a failing cable modem — the new one is an Ambit U10C109 Cable Modem. Plenty of configuration options provided you login with the admin:cableroot default username password, not the user:user one reported on the login page. By…
Here’s a small bash script wrapper for vpnc, the open-source VPN client for Cisco’s vpn concentrator. Put it in your path, and make sure you have an entry for you in your /etc/sudoers file (see comments in the script file…
Ok, short and sweet, this one. On newer flavors of 64-bit Linux (Cent OS 5.2 x86_64 in my case) you may notice Word 2000 (via Crossover Office) fails to start, instead putting out lots of lines like this one: wine:…
Some time back I was asked to set up a way to archive images from a PC (running WinXP Pro). An attached high-quality scanner was used to collect images each day. I use rsync for all sorts of situations where…
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