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Author Archives: ken_fallon
To me six months from now: How to get Citrix running on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora)
This is now the third time that I’ve had to research how to get working so it’s time for a post. This should probably work for Ubuntu systems as well. Edit: The site now has a debian package to make … Continue reading
SpudShow
I listen to so many tech podcasts that I forgot that my ogg player can actually play music. Then while listening to the Linux Outlaws I heard that Dan Lynch had started a music podcast called Rat Hole Radio. So … Continue reading
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HPR ep0481 :: Mashpodder
I have been using bashpodder for years as my podcatching client. For those that don’t know bashpodder is a shell script written by Linc Fessenden of the The Linux Link Tech Show and it is a simple sysadmin solution to … Continue reading
Ready for the Desktop
I’ve been using many different desktop environments over the years. Not only the many desktop’s available under Linux but also the various different iterations of Windows and Apple’s OS. Some allowed me to do my work quickly while others just … Continue reading
Can’t copy from a PDF file.
Every so often I come across a PDF document that has been protected to prevent copying. You probably won’t notice this for a while until your copy and paste fails a few times. Finally you will see that the Edit … Continue reading
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Converting Word Documents to DokuWiki
I needed to convert some existing word documents to the DokuWiki format. After a quick search I realized that the best option was to: open the word document in OpenOffice.Org Writer and select File -> save as -> HTML use … Continue reading
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Join IT – see the floor
July 31, 2009 is the 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. A day set aside for you to thank the people that keep the data flowing through the veins of your building. Having been a system administrator for a long … Continue reading
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HPR web2speech v 0.2 released
In episode ep0401 :: web2speech of Hacker Public Radio I introduce the world to web2speech. The episode shows how you can pipe standard input to standard output of various programs. It builds on my original idea of a Wikipedia text … Continue reading
HPR ep0386 :: SSH config file
This episode spawned from some feedback I sent to klatuu from The Bad Apples podcast. I’ve been using my .ssh/config to simplify long or commonly used ssh commands. Say you want to login to your home machine (mymachine.dynamicdns.org) as user … Continue reading
Hard reset of an ADSL Modem
I saw someone posted a speed test in one of my rss feeds. After doing the test myself I realised that I was only getting half of my alloted speed. I hard reset of the ADSL modem and the restored … Continue reading