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BlackBerry Soft Reset
How easy is it to do a soft reset on a BlackBerry mobile ?
It’s as simple as it is on a PC when you do ‘ctrl-alt-del’.
On the BlackBerry handset press and hold the keys ‘left-alt’ ‘aA’ ‘del’ (the aA is bottom-right on the keypad)
Apple Mail Snow Leopard Layout
So, here is another general grip from the community of Mac users. In particular Apple Mail 5.1 has decided it knows the best way for me to view my email !
I don’t agree, is there a compromise, can I just turn off the preview – no ??
One last panic switch it seems, is available in the preferences panel – all or nothing partner !!!
Open Apple Mail > Preferences -> Viewing and tick ‘Use classic layout’.
London Computer Repairs – Linux Support
Our open source arena is just coming online !
Early staged at present but London Computer Repairs aims to provide a portal for open source support.
The website, london-computer-repairs.co.uk will have uploaded scripts, tutorials, walk through and general reports on hardware software and applications.
Everything on the website will be aimed towards Linux and the open source way of life.
Android is obviously a big part of the open source community so expect some content of this nature too.
Here is a link to the site london-computer-repairs.co.uk
Loop through arguments
Situation: you want to pass multiple arguments through a loop in a bash script that will process the argument values one at a time
#!/bin/bash
for i in $*
do
echo $i;
done
Shutdown Windows PC from Linux
To shutdown a Windows server or workstation from a Linux box, use the following simple command:
net rpc shutdown -C ‘Send the user a pop-up comment’ -f -I 192.168.0.1 -U ‘Domain\Username’
You will then be prompted for your password.
Alternatively, if you are confident of your network security you can avoid the password prompt:
net rpc shutdown -C ‘Send the user a pop-up comment’ -f -I 192.168.0.1 -U ‘Domain\Username%password’
The switches:
-C to send a comment
-f force
-I IP address
-U username
N.B. – check you have the required samba packages installed on the Linux machine
“POP is not supported by iCloud”
Apparently Apple have decided that the rest of the world does not have a need for the POP protocol – according to this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864
Phatch
An excellent open source project to allow quick and easy image manipulation.
Available on Mac, Linux or Windows.
The name comes from an amalgamation of the words photo and batch.
The program easily allows you to add rounded corners, a mask, re-sizing and much more.
Just a quick google for phatch and you will find a very good app for any website designers out there.
Win7 systemprofile missing
Error was c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop
Issues with window 7 64 bit was resolved quite simply.
The desktop folder was missing from the systemprofile folder.
Recreate the folder and reboot.
The desktop should be as you left it.
Password management
Costas Georgiou (@LCRM_IT) has shared a Tweet with you: “LCRM_IT: RT Password management tips http://bit.ly/fa8eXv” –http://twitter.com/LCRM_IT/status/83807766610853888
Check your email against the underground hitlist
Costas Georgiou (@LCRM_IT) has shared a Tweet with you: “LCRM_IT: LulzSec, Anonymous and other hacks – should I change my password? Here’s one way to find out – http://t.co/liemQJz” –http://twitter.com/LCRM_IT/status/83063246285836290
