Dec 8, 2012
How To Import your iTunes Library to Your Android Device Using Winamp
There are just times when you just scratch your head and wonder why everyone can’t play fair. Well that thought occurred recently when I want to make my iTunes library available to my Android device, in this case my Transformer TF101 tablet. With a bit of searching I found that Winamp has the ability to import my iTunes library and an Android app was available for my tablet. Winamp has been around... read more
Nov 25, 2012
How to Scan multiple Documents into a Single PDF with Scan2PDF
As administrators we always needs to have many ways to handle many situations. One of them involves scanning documents or some special requests for one offs, like to say a PDF file or let’s say multiple docs to a single PDF. Well there is such a tool that exists that’s easy to use and free. It is called Scan2PDF and it runs on Win 98/2000/XP/Vista/7. It can be downloaded from... read more
Nov 21, 2012
Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner on Fedora 17
The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner is not supported in Fedora 17 by sane. In a previous post I describe how to install this scanner on Ubuntu. The process is similar except for the package names and commands. To get the scanner to work in Fedora you must download and install third party software. This how to describes how I was able to install it on Fedora 17 64-bit. Make sure sane and xsane are... read more
Nov 19, 2012
Installing Bluefish 2.2.3 on Mac OSX Lion 10.7
Now that I have started using OSX as another OS I started looking for a good free HTML editor. Of course being a Linux user I always look at OpenSource alternatives.Well, Bluefish is one that popped up. Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages... read more
Nov 14, 2012
Changing umask based on Group Membership in Solaris 10 in profile
Recently ran into a situation where we needed to make sure that the umask of 002 was set on all the files owned by a specific group. There are several solutions but one way is to set the umask in the /etc/profile. For Solaris 10 it is set in the profile here. if [ “$LOGNAME” = “root” ] then PS1=”ROOT@`uname -n`# ” ; export PS1 else PS1=”$LOGNAME@`uname -n`$... read more
