Last 10 posts from the blog

They Can't Really Be That Bad

Posted on January 29, 2010, 2:27 pm

I just found this URL today, http://thesource.ofallevil.com/ that's apparently a CNAME for microsoft.com. If you look at http://ofallevil.com/ using Firefox [...]

Strange PackageKit Message

Posted on January 14, 2010, 10:33 pm

I installed some software in Fedora 12 using PackageKit and after the install was complete this message box appeared, not all that useful! Plus it fails to run the package even when clicking on 'Run'. [...]

Gnome Display Properties

Posted on December 18, 2009, 12:36 pm

I don't understand why there are both gnome-appearance-properties and gnome-display-properties. I think that gnome-display-properties should just be another tab on the gnome-appearance-properties. Since you can open the gnome-appearance-properties using the context menu from the desktop I really think that you should be able to change th [...]

Non Booting 64bit Kernel

Posted on December 18, 2009, 12:13 pm

In an attempt to fix the slow booting problem I have with Fedora 12 running in a virtual machine I decided to compile the latest stable kernel, 2.6.32. Compiling went fine but I cannot get it to boot as it hangs at the line 'Creating initial device nodes'. There's plenty of people with the [...]

Native NTLM Proxy Support in Linux

Posted on December 10, 2009, 8:49 pm

One thing that puzzles me is why Linux (specifically Fedora) doesn't have native support for NTLM proxy servers. The Gnome proxy settings do allow for authenticated proxies but if you are stuck behind a Micro [...]

Fedora 12 64bit Shared Folders in Virtualbox

Posted on December 3, 2009, 9:46 am

Yesterday I had a problem with the shared folders when running 64bit Fedora 12 in Virtualbox. When I ran the command to mount the share # mount -t vboxsf sharename mountpoint it just returned the error 'command not found'. It turns out the the command is actually a symlink called /sbin/mount.vboxsf that points to /usr/lib/VBo [...]

Slow Booting Fedora 12

Posted on November 25, 2009, 9:58 pm

I have the 64 bit version of Fedora 12 installed into a virtual machine and the boot times are terrible. By terrible I mean anywhere from 45 seconds to just over a minute. I've cut the starting services right back to the basics and set it to autologin but it still takes ages. It seems that even getting to udev takes considerably longer t [...]

Fedora 12 Guest Additions in Virtualbox

Posted on November 23, 2009, 12:23 pm

After trying Google Chrome OS I moved onto Fedora 12 in Virtualbox. As always it installed fine and in no time I was at the default Fedora 12 desktop. Next step was to install the guest additions to allow for screen resizing and seamless modes. After installing and rebooting, my X server wouldn't start. I dropped into a virtual terminal [...]

Google Chrome OS

Posted on November 23, 2009, 11:42 am

Well like many people this weekend I was busy downloading and installing the Google Chrome OS VMWare image file. It's easy to use the file in Virtualbox using these [...]

Insert TimeStamp Into Access Using C#.NET and C++.NET

Posted on November 11, 2009, 9:02 am

There's a rather strange difference between using C#.NET and C++.NET when using a parameter query to insert a TimeStamp into an MS Access database (field type Date/Time). The following C# code works perfectly. OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(); cmd.Parameters.Add("@login_timestamp", OleDbType.DBTimeStamp).Value = DateTime. [...]