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Issues with LibreOffice and SMB/CIFS shares
Are you having issues when opening documents on a shared drive? Both ODF and DocX document types are effectively archived files which need to expand in order to read their contents and this appears to cause issues when opening such documents across CIFS shared drives. The error you’ll most likely see is “General I/O Error”,
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Introducing the Library
It’s been a hell of a long time since I posted on scaine.net. So much for not breaking the chain! Yikes! That was nearly four years ago! However, it’s not all doom and gloom. Part of the reason for my lack of presence here is that I’ve been setting up a new site with more
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Update! Update now!
This made me laugh – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/28/windows_10_live_tv. A live broadcast on American TV channel KCCI interrupted by a nag-ware screen to upgrade to Windows 10. Ouch. But this video is probably the main reason I’ll never go back to Windows. Who the hell can be bothered putting up with this? Why??
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Essential Ubuntu Software
A short post to outline the command that I end up issuing to every Ubuntu install I perform. These commands are specific to Ubuntu 16.04, but you can most likely use it on other Debian-based distributions too – just remove any packages that they complain about. apt-get install autofs cifs-utils samba zenmap x11vnc ubuntu-restricted-extras gufw
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Replicating Computrace Using Reverse SSH Tunnels
Background At my work I was recently asked to investigate whether Computrace was available for Linux, specifically Ubuntu, and if so, install it. Having a remote wipe mechanism available is part of our Security Policy. For those of you reading this that haven’t heard of Computrace, it’s a clever little rootkit for Windows that will
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