Technology – Page 13

Linux Printer/CUPS Administration

I hope you didn’t get here expecting to find the holy grail and answer to all your printing problems in Fedora or Linux because you may be disappointing 😛 I was having trouble setting up printing on a Fedora 16 system and was frustrated by the lack of configuration available in “System Settings | Printing”:… read more…
Disabling comments in WordPress

There are a number of ways to achieve this but one simple one I found was to set: Users must be registered and logged in to comment This is by no means the only way to resolve the problem of unwanted comments and emails, but it worked for me until I find an anti spam… read more…
How do I find the version of Subversion used by my SVN server

Overview You connect to an Subversion server that you don’t manage yourself – perhaps a company one or open source project, and you want to know what version of Subversion is it running. Resolution 1. Login to your Subversion repository using Firefox or a variant of Firefox like Waterfox 2. Select: Tools | Web Developer… read more…
Clean install of Oracle 11g 64bit on Windows 7

This article is about a clean install of Oracle 11g R2 64bit on a Windows 7 64bit laptop. This setup is focused on my typical target install which is a simple DB install that doesn’t require a sophisticated DB but does require me to have an ability to create multiple DB instances – so “Express”… read more…
Creating an Oracle 11g database

This article assumes you have installed Oracle 11g as per article Clean install of Oracle 11g 64bit on Windows 7. Note all images in this article can be expanded to full size by clicking on the image! Steps 1. Select “Database Configuration Assistant” from the Start menu under Oracle 2. On the “Welcome” page click… read more…
Can’t delete a recording

Overview I have had a number of recordings that I just can’t delete. Some were when I was experimenting with MythArchive and others were just standard deletes. In my case I try to delete and it seems to work but then the recording keeps showing up. When I click on the download though I get… read more…
Right side widget doesn’t flow to bottom of the page

I had a lot of trouble because in Weaver II I had one column on the right side and it only showed part way down the page. The answer was to do two things Go to “Appearance | Weaver II Pro Admin | Main Options | Layout”. Under “Container & Sidebar Color Flow” ensure that… read more…
Weaver II CSS misc

This article contains miscellaneous CSS info specific to the Weaver II WordPress theme. Changing the preformat font “<pre>” Sample change added to “Custom CSS Rules”: #content pre{font-size: 10pt;} read more…
Miscellaneous MythTV bits of info

This article contains various sundry pieces of info for MythTV setups etc. Typically useful pieces of info that may not logically fit anywhere else and you don’t want to create a post just to list a tiny piece of info. Directories Theme root directory This is the root directory where you would put any custom… read more…
Adding an SSL certificate to Apache

This article is about replacing an existing self-signed SSL certificate. In my case I have an Apache 2.2 server running on Fedora 14, pretty much default settings for a lot of stuff. My SSL certificate expired and I just needed to update it. In my case I have the “ssl.conf” in: /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssh.conf Steps 1. Login… read more…