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Comment on Incremental backups with rdiff-backup by bigpresh

bigpresh — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:39:54 +0000

@Noreen – firstly, sorry for the slow comment approval & reply; secondly, I have absolutely no idea about Windows – I haven’t used it for many years, sorry!

Comment on Slow SSH connections – hanging at GSSAPI auth by Eric G

Eric G — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:28:52 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful for Ubuntu 11.10. ~/.ssh/config did not exist on U11.10, but I created it and it solved the problem. Thanks!

Comment on Do big cats like laser pointers? by FrDarryl Jordan

FrDarryl Jordan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:16:43 +0000

You’re not lyin’, especially cubs since they don’t doss a lot.

Comment on Disabling wifi kill-switch on Inspiron 17R (N7010) by bronson

bronson — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:43:55 +0000

Hi dude what is the key code to connect

Comment on Slow SSH connections – hanging at GSSAPI auth by Guilherme

Guilherme — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:11:24 +0000

I was searching for how to disable the GSSAPI! Thank you very much!

Comment on Labelling FAT/FAT32 partitions in Linux by wayne

wayne — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:46:02 +0000

Hey thanks for this info.
I do data recovery using linux. I often attach a group of raid drives for recovery and figure out the arrangements and then when I reboot linux puts them in a different order…. Grrrr…
This will help.
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Take Care

Comment on Incremental backups with rdiff-backup by Noreen Messervy

Noreen Messervy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:47:24 +0000

Hi there, Please excuse the dumb question, but rest assured that I am not being intentionally stupid. Just bought lightroom, and trying to get myself organized. I followed the link to this article from the one where you describe your storage solutions. So if your catalog and images are both stored on an external hard-drive (let’s call it drive Z), how does an automatic daily backup of your computer’s files onto an external drive help with the task of backing up drive Z? If Z is connected to my laptop (let’s say with eSata), will a standard backup program of my computer (using a USB external drive) also backup the Z drive data? I wouldn’t have thought so….but then I’ve never tried. I just use Windows own internal backup software at the moment. Perhaps you don’t explain how to backup an external drive because any fool would know, but I’m not just any fool! Thanks for your patience.

Comment on Backing up Google contacts/calendar etc by Valarie Mcgibboney

Valarie Mcgibboney — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:29:36 +0000

As well as their own online backup provisions, I also found it useful to create a max compression backup locally, and then to replicate that well-encrypted backup out to the cloud.

Comment on Disabling wifi kill-switch on Inspiron 17R (N7010) by Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:24:29 +0000

Thank you for posting this fix. It’s the “brain dead” stuff – why would Dell ever flipflop the Fn key settings? – that completely halted a frustrating over-the-phone folks-in-Florida tech support call. I was moments from sending their new 17R out to get the wireless card swapped. My deepest thanks to you and … and a kick in the pants to somebody at Dell

Comment on VLC getting proxy settings via gconf by Luke

Luke — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:10:21 +0000

I got exactly the same issue (altough on LXDE). Thank you very much for sharing!

Comment on Debugging WWW::Mechanize scripts – printing requests and responses by deepthi

deepthi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:41:34 +0000

hi ,
I have one doubt can we use for configure a file, where file is in html uses css and javascript.I tried but not configured

Comment on Debugging WWW::Mechanize scripts – printing requests and responses by deepthi

deepthi — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:27:52 +0000

Thank you bigpresh

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by Vectra c help

Vectra c help — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Hi I’m having a problem with my 1800 vectra c it has the code fault cooling malfunction 3 on the display shows a car with spanner and temperature gauge goes not move off zero unless ideling any idea what this could be? Thanks

Comment on Debugging WWW::Mechanize scripts – printing requests and responses by bigpresh

bigpresh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:45:29 +0000

@Deepthi – perl 5.6.1 is ancient (over ten years old) – I’d strongly recommend upgrading to a more recent version (5.10 or above, at least).

As for WWW::Mechanize, you can install it as you would any other CPAN module (using the cpan client, cpanm (cpanminus), or via your distro’s package tools.

For example, if you were using Debian, you could use e.g. apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl.

Comment on Debugging WWW::Mechanize scripts – printing requests and responses by Deepthi

Deepthi — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:38:24 +0000

hi,
we’ll not get this module when we installed perl(i have installed perl 5.6.1) can u please tell me which version perl have it.

Thanks & regards
Deepthi

Comment on Disabling wifi kill-switch on Inspiron 17R (N7010) by Mark T

Mark T — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:29:01 +0000

THANK YOU! This just stumped me and a colleague for several hours this morning. If only I’d had the foresight to actually Google first, this would have saved us a lot of hassle.

Some additional keywords to help Google rank this up a bit more…

Dell, Inspiron, kill switch, f2, wireless, wlan, networking

Once again… Thank you! :-D

Comment on Slow SSH connections – hanging at GSSAPI auth by efi

efi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:15:50 +0000

works.. thanks

Comment on Debugging WWW::Mechanize scripts – printing requests and responses by Chris

Chris — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:35:04 +0000

Thank you for this hint.

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by bigpresh

bigpresh — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:57:28 +0000

Certainly possible it’s a relay at fault; I’d be more surprised if it was the ECU, to be honest. The fact that you found a blown fuse before suggests to me it’s more likely to be a wiring issue – but tracing the loom from the fan to the relay, fuse and ECU will probably be a pain in the arse.

If the Meriva is anything like some Vectras, there may be a “cooling control module” mounted somewhere near the front of the engine bay, likely down behind the bumper – this could be the culprit, possibly.

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by paul

paul — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:49:27 +0000

have been told a relay might be faulty only prob is finding it
or the ecu unit

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by paul

paul — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:05:02 +0000

wired the fan direct to the battery it works fine……ill be bald soon tearing my hair out with this

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by bigpresh

bigpresh — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:03:29 +0000

Have you checked if the fuse blew again? If so, maybe you have a wiring fault somewhere, or the fan motor is buggered, or something is obstructing the fan from turning, so it’s causing the motor to pull too much current and blow the fuse. (If you have air con, there’ll be two fans; the main cooling fan facing into the engine bay, and also one to the left of it and half behind the bumper, blowing air across the AC condensor)

Comment on 49MB mailbox size limit (Postfix & procmail) by 0verl0rd

0verl0rd — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:45:11 +0000

Saved my butt. I’ve inherited an ancient mail system that runs procmail, system-wide. LOVE YOU MEEEN! :)

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by paul

paul — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:55:54 +0000

update……shortlived my lights back on again…..not sure what to do next

Comment on Solving trouble codes P0480 / P0482 on Vectra Z22SE by bigpresh

bigpresh — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:08:27 +0000

Best of luck, fingers crossed for you :)