Blog By Farrow…
Any tips guys for printing on glossy brochure paper using the HP Deskjet 5850??? I have been tasked by the wife to print a message on the back of a glossy brochure and wasnt having a lot of luck. Basically the best quality was to set to print on brochure matt finish (although it was gloss) and to use maximum… Continue reading Printing on Glossy Paper using a HP Deskjet 5850
My cat Scruffy is always going on at me to recycle my Amazon.com boxes. And as I like putting photos on my blog (brightens it up), here is Scruffy practicing what he preaches. He’s made it into a nice bed for himself ….
A blast from the past, when coders were coders – none of this drag and drop / wizards stuff. Any one recognise this motley crew? The good old days… A prize goes to anyone who can name them all ….. !!!
Apologies to all my customers, the sites are now back on. We have replaced the firewall as the original one appeared to have an intermittant problem on the network controller.
Lots of people ask me how do I change the Up2date program on either redhat or Fedora? So basically you edit the file called sources which is in /etc/sysconfig/rhn There is a list of local sites for the UK which carry mirrors but the one I use is zeniiia Just add the entries in the file above like so…. yum… Continue reading Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site
Right have now added a static page called About Me on the site. It was quite easy to do and just followed the instructions from the additional controls by Bill Nalen. I will go through the steps below …. As Bill says there are three changes that need to be made. Create a new control, I called mine AboutMe.ascx. This file… Continue reading Added About Me Static Page to the blog
Ran the up2date on one of my Fedora 2 hosting machines and saw that samba has a new release 3.0.6. Upgraded without any problem and also the throughput from the windows machines to this little box seemed to be faster or it could just be me imagining it. I did have an odd problem where from time to time the… Continue reading Samba 3.0.6
Right changed the background color on the contact and feedback boxes. Light grey now, what do people think?? Better than the white. Becoming quite a css wizz… One thing I would like is to limit the pictures in the post and gallerys to a width of 450 but if I set this via css all the images will be 450… Continue reading background on Feedback and contact us
Thought it was time for some pics on here so this is what my cat thinks about the site. Taken with the camera on my mobile phone.
After much playing around I decided not use the Wiki at this point. Its very good and I could see a use for it, if and when I start a new project it would be like a living notepad. My initial thoughts were to have the Wiki as the main home page and the blog off of that but what… Continue reading My Wiki and Subtext