Category Archives: General

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Mirroring your RHN Channels and combining them with software from other sources just got a lot easier with RHEL5. In this post I show you how you can manage your own internal RedHat Network repository. Continue reading →

I’ve had several occasions in the past where the initial ssh connection has been slow to setup. Once you’re logged in then the connection is fast. I’ve always looked to dns resolving issues for these type or problems. Either disabling … Continue reading →

I have often the need to convert spreadsheets to text. The file -> save as trick is fine but will only save one sheet at a time. Often I get a spreadsheet with multiple workbooks and need to export the … Continue reading →

So by now you are finished Archiving your DV tapes and also finished converting your DVDs to mp4 (h264) . So now you have a big hard disk full of movies and you have no idea what’s in what video. … Continue reading →