pjwelsh's mostly geek musings

Let me start by saying, "Shame on you Adobe!" for not recognizing an opportunity to continue in the Linux OS realm in a meaningful...

Here is the situation: There is a user with a remote office that includes networking equipment like printers, backup server etc. He uses a c...

Don't start with the, "rsh is bad..." message. I know, I know! It's an internal test network and was just easy to do for r...

Had a very head scratching issue with the (at least the) Linux version of Goggle Music Manger. GMM claims to have uploaded all of the songs ...

Work in progress - place to keep notes to myself - may help someone else - cheat sheet kinda page ;) 1. How to get NIC/network card vendor...

It really took a while for me to figure out how to add printers via the command line using lpadmin on CentOS 6. So, this information also wi...

This not a formal information page... it is a free form of helpful Zimbra bits of information that I needed in order setup a Zimbra server. ...

OpenOffice at this point seems to have stalled out with no recent bug fixes. The LibreOffice folks seem to to be be moving forward and fix...

Novi is a very handy repository merging utility! The purpose of novi is to remove the problem of a system install followed by an immediate ...

We have a LOT of different printer. A large number of them (over 60 and counting) are Dell branded printers. This includes laser printer mod...

We do have the VMware Workstation 7.1 licensed, but I find that it *really* likes to crash on Fedora 13 a lot! So, tried to roll back to the...

This is a catch up article. More of a documentation piece of (past) success than a current Fedora 13 review. This Fedora install is a stoc...

First and foremost please remember THIS IS A BETA. There are going to be issues. However, I find myself more fixated with my issues with the...