Sunday, August 14, 2005
Cleaned the garage
Might even have room for a car come this winter.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Turn of Firefox autosearch for URLs/Keywords
you can turn it off in the
about:config
by setting
keyword.enabled to FALSE by double clicking on it.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Sychronize Redhat Linux time to the internet
Says:
Hi everyone,
These are my steps that I have been doing to get my Red Hat Linux system clock updated in the crontab with one of the time server using rdate.
What is rdate?
man rdate to read more
rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock using port 37.
You can check out the time servers used by the NIST Internet Time Service (ITS) at:
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefre...me-servers.html
I will be using time.nist.gov time server as an example in this thread and you are free to use any time server you preferred
If you have firewall installed, please set to allow port 37 TCP connection.
Step 1: login to your server via SSH and gain root access.
Step 2: check whether rdate is installed:
code:
rpm -qa | grep rdate
If it is not install, kindly please install rdate before continue.
Step 3: add the following in your /etc/crontab file:
code:
# synchronize system time on every 6AM daily with time server
00 6 * * * root rdate -s time.nist.gov
You can do this by cut and paste the following command:
code:
cat >> /etc/crontab << "EOF"
# synchronize system time on every 6AM daily with time server
00 6 * * * root rdate -s time.nist.gov && /sbin/hwclock --systohc
EOF
If you want to update your system & hardware time now, issue the following command in SSH:
code:
rdate -s time.nist.gov
/sbin/hwclock --systohc
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Always on Top
Found it at Snapfiles.com
GhostIt is also kindof cool but only works on XP or 2000.
Some video capture cards
They talk about cards between $150-200 and resolutions of 640x480.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Friday, July 16, 2004
Javascript webcam updater info
a page about webcam setup
http://www.southwest.com.au/~jfuller/webcam/webcam.htm
look at the source for this
http://www.southwest.com.au/~jfuller/webcam/webcam4.htm
Some 3-D demos for Delphi
the bottom one looks interesting as you grab and drag it...
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/3d.html
here is the delphi source
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/controls3d.zip
it also has explanations of different ways to rotate.
one of which is elevation and azmuth and it refers to the previous link i sent
"This technique is illustrated at Earl F. Glynn's 3D Lab. I also use this technique for my MRIcro software."
this dude has his own free viewing software also..called MRIcro
here
http://www.cla.sc.edu/psyc/faculty/rorden/ to look at brains.
i might download and see if he has sample brains... :-)
gh
AND A SECOND EXAMPLE
http://homepages.borland.com/efg2lab/Graphics/Surface3D.htm
Turn off colors in Linux vi editor
:syntax off
to turn them back on (they will automatically turn on the next time you enter vi)
:syntax enable
to get help on colors in vi
:help usr_06.txt
if you get into vi and type :version
there should be a directory with a "system vimrc" file in it
something like /usr/share/vim/vim61/macros/vimrc
if you edit it as root, then find the lines that say something like if &t_Co >2 etc
and syntax on and set hlsearch
it is an if statement.
just put a double quotes " at the beginning of each line of that if statement
to the end if
and save :w and quit :q
now vi should be in good old black & white.
you could have also made a personal .vimrc file with some such crap in it but that would be hard.
by the way, now the default is b&w you can enable the colors temporarily with :syntax enable
tada.
-gh
How to hook up USB to Linux and FLASH drive
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html
and here is the FLASH DRIVE info
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=59292,00.asp
WebAlbum program
http://www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/
Fixing the Windows XP search to look inside files
Bryon
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309173
Stopping XP from treating ZIP files like directories.
from:
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-11-25.htm#4
4) Zipfiles Slow Down Searching
Reader Chris Altwegg encountered a problem, found a good answer, documented what he found, and then generously took the time to write it all up--- solely to save the rest of us from having to duplicate his efforts!
Fred: Problem--- Using Windows XP "search" function for a file would run through every ZIP file I had on this machine. And with almost 60 Gigs of neatly arranged ZIP files, this would mean looking for a simple lost file would take an hour or more. But how to prevent the search function from searching in ZIP files? Program has no setting to included or not include ZIP files.
Answer--- Google took me to Computing.net, where Jammy had this to say
you need to disable ZIP integration within XP. Then use Winzip or Winrar as your Zip program...
disable Zip integration by going to Start > Run
then type in the following
regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
then reboot your computer. Zip integration still comes back to haunt XP for me sometimes, just run the "Regsvr.." command above, and it will de-integrate ZIP.
I too hate it looking within Zip files - especially when you have loads throughout the computer.
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/37056.html
I took his advice, gave it a try, and it worked perfectly! (I would suggest running WinZip after rebooting and before using Search. The program might complain that ZIP files aren't associated with WinZip and ask if you want to register WinZip as the application of choice. Say yes and watch those ZIP file fly back in Search mode.
Great column. Happy subscriber, Chris
Thanks, Chris!