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So quite an interesting little problem, is that when you insert μ from insert -> special character -> symbols in Lyx, it won’t allow you to produce a pdf – it…

When working with Bluetooth and Java on Linux there are a couple of things to take note of: [box] Ensure that the protocol stack is installed – BlueZ is a…

So after fiddling a bit , I found that the netbeans installed by default on Ubuntu 12.04 is version 7.1 – Now this is fine, but for some reason I…

After struggling with this for quite some time (why, im not sure :), I finally was able to create a remote repo (on bitbucket), and then create a local repo…

Although LibreOffice Calc at this stage doesn’t support exporting graphs or charts as images (currently only as pdf), you are still able to get this right. Here’s how: Copy your…

For some strange reason there are a whole bunch of really unhelpful guides on how to increase the size of a virtualbox vdi image. Some of the guides use the…

OTRS provides basic text signatures, which really aren’t great. So here’s how to enable HTML signatures in OTRS: Edit the following file using Nano: sudo nano /opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/js/Core.UI.RichTextEditor.js Search for **extraAllowedContent **by pressing…

The ListView control does not have the selectedIndex property, so a nice and quick workaround is: [box] yourListView.FocusedItem.Index [/box] Cheerio ?

A problem I came across not so long ago, with a simple solution. This happens if you are updating or inserting data into an access database and using an incorrect…

After about 30 mins of struggling to change the default install dir for inno setup I finally found the answer: Basically the previous install directory for software has precedence of…