Dropbox with your clients

I have been a passive user of dropbox, for the past few years… Someone shares a drop box with me and I set it up to connect from my desktop and forget about it.

But recently a client came to me with a few questions about Dropbox.  They wanted to know if they could easily and safely share folders on drop box so clients could view them, but not edit them (There were a few more request from them but I will start with that one)

This write up will see how this question can be answered, also I will set up a new drop box account.

Check postgres DB size

Just to help myself out I am first going to make some notes for installing and setting up postgres 9.1 on an Ubuntu 12.04 server

Run the following command line commands to install postgres 9.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

> sudo apt-get install python-software-properties > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1 libpq-dev

Problem with bridged network and sonic wall

I use VMWare workstation on my windows 7 machine from time to time to set up a VM or run one.   Recently I tried to create an Ubuntu Server and connect to it, but I could not ssh into it (I could not even ping it).   I tried a few fixed and could not figure it out.  Then based on a message I read on a web page I tried to ssh from another server on another machine and it could ssh just fine and ping the VM running on my workstation.

Eclipse 4.3.1 install python tools

If you don't have eclipse you can download it at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ [1]

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Eclipse 4.3.1 with CVS over SSH

I have a legacy system I am a part of taking care of.  Its version control system is CVS accessed via SSH.  Here are my notes on how I accessed it via eclipse IDE 4.3.1

If you don't have eclipse you can download it at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ [1]

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Creating a stopwatch in CSS

I am currently working on a video of the installation process of windows 8.1 from 8.    I want to add a timer stopwatch to my video.

Looking around I can't find any tool that I particular like to accomplish this.  I am using Camtasia 8 on a windows system.  

I decided to simply take a video of a live running stopwatch and make it a clip I can add to any video I make in the future.   In other words run a stopwatch for 2 hours on my screen and record it.