Acer has interwoven Firefox 2 with the rest of the system, that’s why a quite unusual approach is required to install the newest version. The benefit of using an official release is a working update feature, which is disabled in the version already installed on the system. Press Alt+F2 to […]
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The below is instructions on how to install VLC on an Acer AA1 running Linpus, these deatails and credit were found at http://macles.blogspot.com/ Acer ships a media player named Media Master, which is in fact just a rebranded version of CyberLink PowerDVD, with the pre-installed Linux. Also included is a […]
Tewkesbury Tigers U10’s had a home game today against Evesham. Tewkesbury were one player short and Max who plays for the U9’s was asked to play. Two games were played, in the first game Max made a good break but dropped the ball as he was about to score and […]
Tewkesbury 1st’s were playing away against the Old Richians today , kick off was at 2:30pm, The Old Richians won 28-7 the Old Richians utilised their forwards to keep Tewkesbury at bay 🙁
Max and I went to the Gloucester V Australia rugby match last night at Kingsholme. We had a great night, it was great to see Kingsholm filled to the rafters 🙂 Kingsholm witnessed a piece of history on Tuesday evening as the Wallabies came to town and were pushed virtually […]
I am embarking on a new chapter in my life, this is to become a Rugby coach for the Tewkesbury Tigers Yesterday I completed the first step, which was to complete an online IRB “Rugby Ready” course as shown in the image on the right 🙂
A very windy morning, but that did not stop the Tewkesbury Tigers. They all played very well despite loosing both matches. A lot more passing was done today which resulted in 3 Try’s being scored by Max.
Outlook 2003 – Lost Unread Mail Folder In Outlook 2003, on the left-hand side at the top there is ‘Mail, Favourite Folders’. It contains a number of ‘shortcuts’ – it is possible to accidentally delete and lose these.
VMware server installation on CentOS: 1. Log in the server as ‘root’. It’s not best practice but for now it’s easier. 2. Run all the software updates and reboot, you’ll be prompted about them in the upper right corner. It’ll take a while. If you’re not on dhcp you’ll have […]
1. Go to the Webmin Download page and note the download link for Centos. Currently its http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.450-1.noarch.rpm 2 .Login via SSH to your server. 3. At the SSH prompt type: yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay 4. use wget to obtain the webmin package for Centos that you got the link for […]
hosts file By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file
Will’s Note: I am not the orginal author. I have updated some of the info:file scanning exceptions for your Anti-Virus software where applicable: Consider the following NOTE: the %systemroot% variable will not work as an exclusion for some OSs. So make sure to spell out full path in your exclusion files […]
I have found a great site if you are having trouble with file extensions. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm The files listed here are all ZIP files, which contain a REG (Registry) file. Download the ZIP and open it. Extract the REG file to your hard disk and double click it. Answer yes to […]
I eventually solved this problem. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall.up After the section on “# Allow packets that we know about through …” Add: # Allow packets from green to green /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i $GREEN_DEV -o $GREEN_DEV -j ACCEPT Create: /var/smoothwall/ethernet/staticroutes with this in route add -net 192.168.122.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 gw […]