Theresa Arzadon-Labajo
Book List
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346.35 driver breaks X on Dell Precision T1500 and T1600's
After an update to 346.35, X will not start on Dell Precision T1500 and T1600's Read More
Editing desktop files with augeas and puppet
I needed to edit a custom desktop file that had a typo in it on all my workstations. I used Augeas to edit the file and Puppet to automate it for me. Read More
Newer dropbox won't run on RHEL/CentOS/Springdale 6
When downloading a newer Dropbox and running ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd, nothing happens Read More
Connect 32-bit Network Connect client on 64-bit RHEL6/Springdale6/Centos6/Fedora
Installing the 32-bit Network Connect client on a 64-bit Linux machine gives the error:
Setup Failed.
        Please install 32 bit Java and update alternatives links using update-alternatives command.
        For more details, refer KB article KB25230.

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NetworkManager privileges
When trying to edit a network connection in Network Manager, a dialog box appears where you have to input the root password.
 System policy prevents modification of system settings
     An application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges. Authentication as the super user is required to perform this action
     Action: org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.modify
    Vendor: NetworkManager
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undefined method `domain' for Facter:Module
After updating facter on our puppet server, /etc/cron.daily/foreman-reports now gives errors Read More
Hebrew TeX fonts on RHEL/Fedora
How to install and configure hebrew fonts on yum-based Linux distributions. Read More
Postfix master dead but pid file exists
Postfix would not restart on a workstation.  Turns out, almost all our workstations and servers had the same issue. Read More
Install OPAM on Springdale/RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.X
Installing OPAM on a Springdale/RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.X machine doesn't work because it requires a newer version of GLIBC. Read More
Error 1556: You can't use locks with log tables
After upgrading MySQL to 5.1.71, automysqlbackup now gives the error "1556: You can't use locks with log tables. when using LOCK TABLES" Read More
Installing Firesheep on Fedora
Installing Firesheep on Fedora Read More
Websites dont resolve using Fedora connected to an Xfinity wireless router
When using Fedora, websites are not resolving when connected to Xfinity Wireless Router. Read More
Func daemon won't start
funcd would die right after starting Read More
Gnome Places brings up LibreOffice

Any folder or filesystem selected in Start->Places, brings up libreoffice which then would say it could not open up the program.....Obviously. Read More
Gnarwl Vacation SELinux
Gnarwl vacation filter wouldn't send auto-replies. The error in /var/log/messages was: CRIT/IO /var/lib/gnarwl/block/username Read More
Fibre or Fiber
Why is it fibre channel and optical fiber? Why the spelling differences? Read More
Cannot update Dell BIOS with .BIN file
When I try to upgrade the BIOS on our PowerEdge servers with the BIN file provided by the Dell support website, I get the following error:
#./BIOS_H9K1G_LN32_2.7.0.BIN
...
                Unable to get the System Generation.

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Droid 2 R2D2 SBF
Before returning my phone for warranty replacement, I need to unroot it. Read More
Moving Apps and Data from one phone to another
I received a warranty replacement for my Droid 2 R2D2. I wanted to make the move as painless as possible. Read More
YouTube URLs with specified Start Time
How to send a youtube.com url with a specified start time.
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Rooted Wireless Tether no longer works
You get redirected to a Verizon website when accessing webpages through tethering. Read More
Drupal URL Redirects
It's been a few years since we migrated our site to Drupal, but I recently ran into some websites that were referencing our old directory structure.  I thought URL Aliases would take care of this, but it had unexpected results.
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Black video on Skype
Skype from Android Market shows outgoing video as black with Droid 2. Read More
Migrating RT 3.6.4 to RT 4.0
The RT Documentation shows how to upgrade an existing RT server to RT4, but what if you want to migrate it? Read More
Convert Doc to PDF
You don't need Adobe Acrobat Pro to Export to PDF. Just use abiword. Read More
Droid 2 no longer rooted after 2.3 update
Superuser and other apps no longer have root access after the 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) update. Read More
Setting your Backspace key to erase
Sometimes some machine have control-H set to be the erase key. Read More
Login hanging after upgrading Horde
Login hangs after updating horde and cpu utilization goes up on webserver. Read More
Rooting Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 3.1 (Honeycomb)
Previous methods of rooting the Galaxy Tab (e.g. z4root) does not work with the newer 10.1 SGT running Honeycomb Read More
Handcent Screen Orientation
The default screen orientation of notification pop-ups is Portrait.  It doesn't change to landscape when you rotate the screen. Read More
Text Message Not Sent Notification won't go away
Removing the Text Message Not Sent icon in the notification bar on Droid Read More
Toggle Signature in Thunderbird
Easy way of turning signature on and off in Thunderbird. Read More
Words with Friends always says "Waiting for moves"
Word with Friends on Android not updating moves Read More
Drush doesn't work after upgrading to 6.22
Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_load() in /usr/local/bin/drush/drush.php on line 204

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Resize Images in Thunderbird
Resize image attachments in Thunderbird. Read More
Firefox on SunRays are not opening up
After Firefox update, SunRays no longer could open up Firefox. Read More
Secunia keeps complaining about Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Update tries to install KB2464594 and keeps failing Read More
Changing Open Office default save files
It's nice that Open Office is free, but who really uses their file formats? Read More
Installing Dell Online Diagnostics on custom RHEL release
Installing on our custom Red Hat OS release.   Read More
How to create an off-center desktop wallpaper
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ldapsearch syntax error
Running ldapsearch in bash gives error:-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' Read More
How to prounounce epoch
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How to pronounce daemon
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server mail.optonline.net timed out
Retrieving messages from mail.optonline.net in Thunderbird times out Read More
Adding Puppet user with no password
Using puppet to create a user without a password, auto-login and disabling screen lock, Read More
Portable KeePass
KeePass is a great password manager, but what happens if you have multiple devices? Read More
Drupal Hit Counter for Views not Nodes
Adding a hit counter (page views) for Drupal nodes is easy, but allowing it to track a View is more difficult.  Especially when the link you are tracking goes to another view. Read More
Convert Word into LaTeX
Use AbiWord to convert Word documents into LaTeX Read More
Theming grouped multiple values in Views
When you check off "Group multiple values" in the Views field, it doesn't show up in the $row variable. Read More
How to extract link from Node:Link
Node:Link returns link in HTML code.  How do you get the link out? Read More
Configuring and Troubleshooting Turba
LDAP addressbook  was not working in Horde. Read More
Unable to login to SunRay session with card inserted
When logging into a SunRay session with card inserted, you get Authentication Failed message. Read More
Tab key in Drupal WYSIWYG
When typing in Drupal's WYSIWYG editor (i.e. FCKeditor or TinyMCE), the tab key will be seen by the browser as a navigation tool and proceed to the next tab-stop which is outside of the textarea. Read More
Drupal Search Module errors with php includes
We have been experiencing intermittent Drupal White Screen of Death's when using the Search Module.  At first, we thought it was multiple search terms that were causing this. But, even single term searches would fail.  It seems that it depended on the word being search, but I couldn't make a correlation.

I looked in error_log and it was showing a 500 error.  php.log was showing "PHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare mymail() (previously declared..."

I renamed the function, but I got the same error again for the new function name.

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Script to create jpg thumbnails from flv files using ffmpeg

Using instructions from Using ffmpeg to create jpg thumbnails from flv files,

I created a bash script that would take a filename from the command line, then output the file with a .jpg extension.

The command line that was given in the post didn't work for me:
ffmpeg -i video.flv -an -ss 00:00:03 -an -r 1 -vframes 1 -y %d.jpg

But, the one given in the comment by Philippe Maegerman did (-minus the .exe part):
ffmpeg.exe -i stream_1146848749371.flv -y -f singlejpeg -ss 0.001 -vframes 1 -an test.jpg

I just modified it to suit my needs.

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Tesseract with Russian
The main Tesseract-OCR Project on Google Code doesn't contain the Russian language files.

They are available at tesseract-ocr-russian Google Groups .

Download rus.zip.

Unzip rus.zip

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Upgrading to Fedora 11 on Thinkpad T60

After upgrading from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 on my Thinkpad (Lenovo) T60, I was unable to boot to Windows. Fedora 11, though, worked fine.

 

The error I got was:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:  \System32\hal.dll
Please re-intall a copy of the above file.
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Some SunRay clients show 14D
Every once in awhile, some SunRay clients will stop being able to connect to a SunRay session and only display 14D.

Log messages showed:
Oct 27 18:18:39 minsk utauthd: Worker4 NOTICE: SESSION_OK pseudo.00144f6f741c
Oct 27 18:18:39 minsk utdevmgrd[19170]: symlink No such file or directory: /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.00144f6f741c

According to this article:
The SRSS software creates some directory and files in the /tmp filesystem. RedHat Linux has a cron job cleaning up /tmp daily. After a few days some of the files from SRSS were removed, causing the problem. This can be solved by adding "-x /tmp/SUNWut" to /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch


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Hard drive failure in HP 9100C Digital Sender

About 8 months ago, our HP9100C gave this error:

        HARD DISK ERROR CODE 00000004

I tried many things to salvage the data, including freezing it, but nothing seemed to work.

I came across this forum: 9100C hard drive  and someone was looking for an image of the hard drive, but no one had it at the time.

I was reluctant to give get rid of the machine since the only thing wrong with it was the hard drive, so I kept it around.

Today, I checked the thread and someone posted the image.

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Installing and Un-installing Raritan Multi-Platform Client

To install:

unzip the downloaded zip file

unzip StandaloneMulti-PlatformClientv6.0.zip

Then run,

java -jar mpc-installer.MPC_6.0.0.5.9.jar

 

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Nokia N810 with Screen Rotation

Follow directions on http://www.latheofdreams.com/?p=

First, need to Update N810 to the latest OS.

  • http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

Screen Rotation:

http://www.latheofdreams.com/?p=39

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Drush with PHP 5.1.6

Drush requires PHP 5.2.0 because of JSON



I tried to install and run Drupal Commandline (Drush) , but got the error:
 

Your PHP installation is too old. Drush requires at least PHP 5.2.0
 

According to: http://groups.drupal.org/node/20433, Drush does not actually *require* PHP 5.2.0, it just requires the JSON functionality for PHP.

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Replace TeX with HTML characters

Replace TeX with HTML characters

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virt-manager "Add Connection" nothing happening

When clicking on File->Add Connection, nothing happens

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Zoom 3095 USB Modem on Linux

Create RPM for driver.

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Building Tesseract RPM

Build Tesseract RPM from tarball

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Remote Desktop Audio

Remote Desktop Audio not working

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jsCookMenu in Joomla 1.5

Get the jsCookMenu module to work in Joomla 1.5 Legacy

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WB 2.7.0 upgrade and Comments

When adding a comment, error:
The requested URL /~tarzadon/modules/news/[ACTION_URL] was not found on this server.

 

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Website Baker and SELinux

SELinux causes is_writable() to return false

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WB 2.7.0

Upgrade from 2.6.5 to 2.7.0

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Optiplex 755 hanging

Optiplex 755 hanging at "Starting udev"

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Sony Blank Screen
CCD (image sensor) failures, particularly in conditions of high heat and humidity, led to cameras capturing images with either no picture at all, or with extreme distortion and severe purple or green color casts. Read More
WB 2.6.7
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Sun Ray USB mounting
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Dual Port (VGA + DVI)
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Canon Hacking: Modified firmware for Canon EOS 300D/Digital Rebel
Hacking the EOS300D to give it 10D capability Read More
Firefox - Copy and Paste
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Media Manager - White space and case
Joomla Media Manager issues with white space and case. Read More
Unofficial Windows 2000 DST patch
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WB 2.6.5

Upgrade from 2.6.4 to 2.6.5

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Upgrading Nagios
Upgraded from Nagios 2.0b to Nagios 2.6 Read More
Wireless on Thinkpad T40 running Fedora Core 6
I had trouble getting wireless to work, Read More
WB 2.6.4

Upgrade from 2.6.1 to 2.6.4

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WB 2.6.1

Upgrade from 2.5.2 to 2.6.1

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