I know, it seems obvious… but when you’ve got one of those stupid print jobs stuck in the queue and they won’t go away… using the services manager to restart the print spooler apparently a pretty effective remedy in many cases. More later if I find out anything less lame.
I always forget the settings that get solid results connecting to my CentOS/Fedora systems under Putty. Here’s the whole nine yards, maybe someone else will be able to use ’em as well. Get putty from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html. I use the installer. Get puttycyg from http://web.gccaz.edu/~medgar/puttycyg/. Unpack the .exe files over your putty folder. This will be c:\program files (x86)\Putty if you use the installer on x64 windows. You’ll want to replace the originals. ...
Edit January 7: See bottom of post. Every person I’ve talked to with a RAZR seems to have this problem, and nobody has known how to fix it. You know what I’m talking about! You put the phone on ‘vibrate’ and stick it in your pocket, confident that when that important phone call comes in you’ll know. 3 hours pass by and nothing happens, and you pull the phone out of your pocket only to find out that it’s now on ‘silent’ and you have 5 missed calls! WTF! ...
So I had a great idea… Why don’t I buy a DVD burner and then start using DVD’s to install software, make backups, etc, etc. Well… it was a nice idea, but then I had another great idea… Why don’t I run windows XP 64 since I have an AMD Opteron system! Turns out none of the wonderful bundled DVD burning software will even install on XP64, let alone run, so there it sat. ...
So I’m working on some linux software and am running linux on my desktop. One of my major pet peeves every time I go back to a linux desktop is that out of the box my button 4 and 5 don’t work correctly under firefox. Here’s the fix. Under Fedora Core 5, use this: cat > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse.sh <<-EOF #!/bin/sh # /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse.sh # Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 11" EOF chmod a+x /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse.sh Under CentOS 4 / RHEL4, use this: ...