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TV remote light constantly flashing.. solution
I just tried turning the TV on and for some reason the red light on the front of the TV was constantly flashing. I know that this light is to show when the TV is receiving an infra-red signal from … Continue reading
I won a blue Raspberry Pi! #bluepi
Raspberry Pi, the tiny but powerful computer recently had its first birthday. To celebrate this milestone the Raspberry Pi Foundation has made a limited edition run of 1,000 blue Raspberry Pis and is donating most of them to charities. A … Continue reading
Do I really need gold plated HDMI leads?
Why, whenever I buy new audio/visual equipment do the salesmen always ask me whether I want gold plated cables to match, at only 10% of the cost of the equipment I am buying? I go into a shop with an … Continue reading
Sky asked my opinion on “Got To Dance”. Big mistake..
You know when you see another “You’ve Been Framed” clone programme and you think “it was great for the first three episodes but there are only so many water-skiing dogs I can laugh at before the novelty wears off”? Chuck … Continue reading
openoffice calc multiple search and replace array substitute
Today I had a spreadsheet that had a field populated by letters to represent missing fields (no telephone number? put a “T” in the column etc). I could have ended up with up to 21 letters to represent the missing … Continue reading
403 404 http error check 404s.co.uk
I have an issue occasionally – sites refuse to load for me. Having a dedicated server allows me to come up with fun ways to do stuff. Today I decided to register a domain name – http://404s.co.uk/ and use it … Continue reading
ubuntu ssh proxy server, google chrome, do not proxy certain ip addresses
I have set up a server with an SSH connection. I want to use this as a proxy server for my ubuntu laptop at home. This is the steps I have taken: 1: Create a passwordless login on the server … Continue reading
bash download from url list into directories
Prerequisite: the file specified by urlFile must exist and contain a list of URLs, one per line. baseDir is where the files will end up. It will be created if it does not exist. splitText is the text that will … Continue reading
Delivery for Mr. Assange
16 January 2013 Delivery for Mr. Assange (if not trojaned by spooks) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:58:50 +0100 From: “!Mediengruppe Bitnik” To: nettime-l Subject: Fwd: DELIVERY FOR MR. ASSANGE DELIVERY FOR MR. ASSANGE A LIVE MAIL ART PIECE A … Continue reading
“The Google Publisher Toolbar requires you to be logged in to one or more Google Accounts.”
I repeatedly get the message “The Google Publisher Toolbar requires you to be logged in to one or more Google Accounts.” and I could never figure out how to fix it – sometimes it fixed itself after restarting chrome, sometimes … Continue reading
