How to extract *.tgz or *.tar.gz
To extract .tar.gz or .tgz files from terminal or via ssh tar -zxvf file.tar.gz or tar -zxvf filename.tgz I don’t know about anyone else but 99% of the time when faced with a compressed tar file I want...
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Publish wordpress to twitter
Having just spent all morning getting grief from she-who-must-be-obeyed I am having a bad PC day. Her command was simple enough MAKE MY BLOG POST TO TWITTER hmm. 1st it was “who the hell would want to...
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Zip files corrupted on download in internet explorer no FF or Chrome
Aghh the joys of working with websites.. One step forward another step back. Scenario You have zipped files available for download from your site, blog, CMS etc. When you test the download process our...
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How to fix a range of sounds problems in Linux / Ubuntu and enable Dolby /...
For the record I am trying to persuade Ubuntu 10.04 to spit out Dolby ac3 compressed digital signal via the SPDIF at the back of my Asus R1F tablet laptop. The spdif works out of the box!! An amazing...
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Fix “SIM card unavailable” in Sony errikson X10 xperia
The problem here is simple… The phone is look ing for a number on the sim. This is a special field which the phone expects to find. When it is not there it throws up an error. It appears that only sony...
View ArticleIncrease the size of tmpfs and leave files intact
very cool trick Increase the size of a ramdisk: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp -o size=2000M,mode=1777,remount This increases the ramdisk’s size to 2000M. No file is destroyed. Read more:...
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How to download recursive folders in linux with command line ftp
Ok so all you want to is to ssh into your server and pull a stack of files over from another PC via ftp. Sounds simple does it now. This is linux we are talking about.. nothing is simple. The short...
View ArticleHow to fix Contact sync deletes new contacts and edits on my Xperia X10 /...
As you can see from other posts the X10 is giving me more grief than it rightly should. Still stuck at Android 1.6 the updates to 2.1 are starting to trickle in as most other phones are moving on 2.2...
View ArticlePossible fix for download & installation unsuccessful Android Market issues
There are a number of suggestions out there. I have successfully used the following two to allow the download and installation of apps from the Android market place after receiving the error “download...
View ArticleChrome RDP remote desktop crash
If chrome is crashing when you log in over RDP.. try: about:flags and setting - "GPU compositing on all pages": Default -> Disabled - "Disable accelerated 2D canvas": Disabled -> Enabled
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