I recently reinstalled Ubuntu on my laptop. It only took a couple hours to get everything setup and ported over from my old system.  I only had one issue,  I had some very important sticky notes that I needed to have setup on my new system, and I could not find where they were stored [...]

In order to get the proper screen resolution of 1440×900 on your Intel graphics chipset, you need to install the 915resolution package.
915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900 series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. [...]

Mounting a Windows Share on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

You must have the smbfs libraries. They are not installed by default on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

open a terminal window
sudo apt-get install smbfs

if you haven’t already done so, you must create a mount point for your windows share

I like to have mine under my home folder.

For [...]

What’s Gnu? Well, I will tell you. Its the coolest thing I have seen at Target in a long time. I was shopping for some new toys with my 20 month old son, and saw a spelling game for kids called “What’s GNU?”
The game’s website describes it as this… “What’s GNU?” The [...]

I am testing the limits of QuickBooks, QODBC, & ColdFusion, so I am doing some bulk imports to see what (if anything) breaks or has poor performance.
In this particular case, I am trying to add 100000 customers to the database
<cfloop index=”i” from=”1″ to=”100000″>
<cfquery datasource=”qbs” name=”ds” >
INSERT INTO Customer ( Name)
VALUES (’#CreateUUID()#’)
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
When running the script, it [...]

Not exactly sure why this is the case, but I was receiving a 10004 error whenever I had more than one QODBC query during a page request.
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC Socket][QODBC] Error
SQLSTATE 42S00
SQL SELECT * FROM Customer
VENDORERRORCODE 10004
DATASOURCE qbs
Resources:
The ColdFusion Data Source Setup [...]

I have used GuitarPro for years, and have absolutely loved it. I have had pretty good success on running GuitarPro on Linux using Wine. I looked a few times, but never found an open source alternative that lived up to my standards. On occasion, I would open up Ubuntu’s Add/Remove [...]

I have been using ColdFusion 8 and CFEclipse for a while now, and have never bothered to get the CF8 syntax dictionaries working. Now that I have the knowledge, and you too can have the power!!
Apparently the version of CFEclipse I was using has a carriage return issue with the dictionaryconfig.xml file in this [...]

I recently have been making a lot of improvements to my family website. On of the most requested features is a family history/genealogy section. After reviewing most of the GNU/PHP genealogy web software solutions, I chose to go with PhpGedView. I was able to easily upload my Sister’s GENCOM file, and everything just [...]

Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System (GRAMPS) is a Free Software Project for Genealogy for Linux (Python/GTK+). I haven’t played with this much, but I like what I see so far!
Click to Visit GRAMPS’s Website