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HPR episode: Interview Techniques

It’s always a shock to hear your own voice and this was no exception. Episode 78 on Interview Tips has been released. I would like to apologise for the poor audio quality. I decided to make the recording as a … Continue reading

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How to map a PCIID to a MAC address

I’ve been beating my head against a wall for a few months now on how to do this. First the why. I’ve been installing Vmware ESX server onto hardware with many Network Interface Cards (NIS’s). The guys that installed the … Continue reading

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Goodbye LinuxReality

A colleague at work introduced me to podcasts and within a week I was hooked. At the time typing “linux podcast” turned up very little except a show called LugRadio. They 4 (7) Large Gents lead me to The Linux … Continue reading

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Windows 98 a Macintosh operating system

I was installing Windows 98 from a MSDN subscription and decided to do some update. Here’s what I got Thanks you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site. This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating … Continue reading

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Getting text out of visio drawings

One of the common headaches I’ve come across is how to extract text out of visio. The obvious File -> Save as -> Text File is not available, nor is File -> Export -> Text File. I’ve even tried creating … Continue reading

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The OpenStreetmap episode is published on Hacker Public Radio

My episode on the openstreetmap project has just been released over at Hacker Public Radio.

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Finished part 3 of LPIC for Hacker Public Radio

Finally. Last night finished recording the third part in the Linux Professional Institute Certification series for Hacker Public radio. This episode gives a general background to how a Hard Disk works. The main points were: How Linux names hard disks … Continue reading

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svc: bad direction 65536, dropping request

If you see that check to make sure that your /etc/resolv.conf is correct.

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Finding if one or more files exist in a directory using bash.

A common problem I’ve come across in bash is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to check for the existence of multiple files in a directory. If you wanted to find out whither a particular file exists you … Continue reading

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