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HandBrake

I have a Sony home theatre and I have been bugged for ages as only some of my video files where showing up. A real bummer. After lots of searching and trying different programs, which all had some issue, I bumped into handbrake. Before you try and install handbrake on Fedora 17 first install the 


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how to teach spamassassin

Apply sa-learn to all email boxes called Junk in a cron job /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam /var/vmail/*/*/.Junk/*/* /bin/rm -rf /var/vmail/*/*/.Junk/cur/*

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Concatenating pdfs

Use Ghostscript to contatenate pdf files: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf

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Postfix problems

For some reason my postfix installation went totally wrong. I don’t know why other that I suspect that my IT manager may have given the wrong command and in his enthusiasm messed things up. I didn’t see much of an option but to reinstall postfix but that turned to be a lot harder than expected as 


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Uploading a file in Mediawiki

Uploading a file is easy if you see the upload link. I didn’t. To ensure you see it you have to change the setting in LocalSettings.php $wgEnableUploads = true; You may get an error **Could not create directory “mwstore://local-backend/local-public/ **and some more alpha characters. This turned out 


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