Adding a Disclaimer to TWiki Print format

April 13, 2008

This is pretty hackish – but it seems to work Ok.
Putting your Disclaimers on the Bottom
Edit the variable WEBCOPYRIGHT on the page TWiki.TWikiPreferences. For instance, make the line read like this : * Set WEBCOPYRIGHT = %MAKETEXT{”Copyright &©[_1] by PLATFORMedia LLC. ” args=”1999-%GMTIME{$year}%”}% This has been [...]

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NFS shares (Samba alternative)

June 27, 2007

Situation
Basics
yum install portmap nfslock nfs

Setup of the Server Machine
Create a mount point for the directory to be mounted somewhere convenient :mkdir /s_drive
and into /etc/fstab :/mnt/seagate250/server /s_drive none bind [...]

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Fedora 7 Upgrade for Dell Dimension 2400

June 10, 2007

Situation
This machine previously had FC6 (upgraded FC1 -> FC2 -> FC3 -> FC4 -> FC5 -> FC6).However, the machine can’t boot from USB.
Solution suggested elsewhere :

Download ISO (F-7-i386-DVD.iso) via bittorrent
Copy ISO into /root/Fedora7/
mount the ISO via loopback :

cp the isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img file from the iso to the /boot partition
update the grub.conf so that [...]

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Upgrading FC5 to FC6

January 15, 2007

Even though the official instructions advise against it, it works fairly smoothly. In particular :

‘americas’ doesn’t have a (non-USB) DVD drive, and won’t boot of the USB external DVD-R;
‘cello’ and ‘flute’ are remote servers, so popping in the DVD is impossible.

Here’s a transcript of the not-so-smooth part :# yum install yum-fastestmirror# rpm -Uhv ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm# [...]

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SCiTE for Programmers : ScitePM

December 31, 2006

ScitePM is a lightweight, Gtk-based project manager for use with the SciTE editor.
ScitePM allows the user to organize a set of files as a project, like most IDEs, and then open them within SciTE.
The User interface now defaults to being a ’skinny’ column of files / project items on the LHS [...]

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