Monthly Archives: May 2012

I have had an issue with media files not indexing once I copied them onto my Synology DiskStation NAS. I often copy files from the NAS to do media conversion on an old Ubuntu box for .mkv (Matroska) encoded (or … Continue reading →

I was working on a DD-WRT firmware’d router and could not get the port forwarding to work. Anyway, the solution is as follows:  In the Control Panel click on “Administration” then on “Commands”. Copy and paste this inside the Commands … Continue reading →

This is a really funny article in The Globe and Mail on 2012 May 12th entitled “What would Canada look like in 2015 if Harper is still Prime Minister?” by Denis Smith. Sarcasm at its best, for example: “When the … Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES – May 11, 2012 – Carroll Shelby International, Inc., announced today that Carroll Hall Shelby, a man whose vision for performance transformed the automobile industry, has died at age 89. In the 1960’s Shelby’s company created the Shelby … Continue reading →

I have been looking for how to set up OpenVPN with Network Manager under Linux Mint 12.I think that everyone has found that you cannot use the client.ovpn configuration file that OpenVPN.  After much searching I found the following guide … Continue reading →

Hopefully once Google searches this others having trouble installing the Brother MFC-490CW printer/scanner will find the solution to getting the printer to work. Now, this may be documented elsewhere but the Brother documentation isn’t quite clear on the libc6 per-requisite. … Continue reading →