Our built-in De-Dietrich microwave over has been broken for weeks. Initially the door catch had broken, but a replacement catch DIY-fitted had not fixed the problem.
De-Dietrich’s service agent wanted £195 to come out and fix the oven - a ludicrous price for a 13 year old microwave. Other appliance repair centres would either not repair microwave ovens at all, or particularly excluded De-Dietrich.
I have long been a keen user of pdftk, the PDF Toolkit, but am frequently surprised when people have not heard of it. True, it is a command line tool, but it is easy to incorporate into service menus, scripts etc and doubtless there is a GUI front-end for it somewhere (in fact there is one linked to from the above page).
Anyone who has enjoyed the dubious benefits of working with IPSEC will find OpenVPN a delight, but what do you do with your client.ovpn file once you have it?
If you spend most of your time in a terminal anyway, then I would
suggest just putting all your client.ovpn files into ~/.openvpn,
renaming them in some appropriate way, and then using them simply by
typing:
Oh Vodafone, please explain to me,
how a business based on technology,
can be so bad at web-based stuff?
Really, downloading a bill should not be so tough!
Very early on in my Linux life, I came across this suggested header for crontab and I’ve used it ever since. So much so that I am always slightly thrown when I come across a crontab without it! No, you don’t need it, yes the standard commented header works just fine, but, if like me you prefer things neatly lined up, then this might suit you:
Occasionally users are unable to connect to our FreeNX server, they report an error “Startup Session Failed”. Clicking on “Detail” shows that it is unable to find the server session file.
Searching for solutions suggested a number of options, including
removing the server /tmp/.X1\*\*\*-lock files, or simply removing FreeNX
and installing NoMachine’s NXServer instead.
Whilst the world seems to be moving email to “The Cloud”, rightly or wrongly I remain reluctant to give up the control of our own mailserver. For over ten years now we have been using a combination of the following open source applications:
Having created an sshfs mount in /etc/fstab, I was frustrated that it
would mount okay, but unmounting always resulted in an error “mount
disagrees with the fstab”. The following solution worked for me:
The power switch remains a momentary petty irritation, but the poor quality keyboard and intrusive trackpad are harder to live with. The wireless is pretty poor, but it generally connects fine and rarely actually causes me any problems.
But the Novatech n1410 remains a good-looking, lightweight laptop with a great battery life, and highly portable. And it was undeniably great value.
I thought that this Linux Terminal Command Reference from the Mint community was excellent. Having learned them piecemeal over many years, I was almost resentful to see them all listed together. Linux shouldn’t be easy, it should be knowledge painfully acquired through years of humiliation on IRC channels and mailing lists!
