I’ve moved house and being nowhere near the router that connects us to the net, I had to purchase an Xbox Wireless Adapter (rip-off!). Once it was setup, I had to test the network connection. For some reason UPnP wasn’t working even when enabled on the Linksys WRT54GR, so I had to set up port [...]
My Xbox 360 kept freezing on the startup logo until I eventually turned it off and then on by hitting the DVD-tray open button. This probably indicates that the DVD drive is defective or on its way out – meh. Warranty here I come!
February 16, 2009 – 23:30
or, “What happened to VboxAddIf?!” I decided to upgrade to Virtualbox 2.1 the other day as I wanted to keep up to date. It’s a great bit of software. One of the VMs I use regularly runs Debian and serves as a development environment and a nagios server for monitoring the various sites I host [...]
February 11, 2009 – 21:13
I’ve amended the standard “reddit this” button and made it so that submissions open in a new window without navigating away from the original page – I found this annoying when halfway through something and thinking “I’ll reddit this”. Here’s the javascript code: javascript:window.open(‘http://reddit.com/submit?url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title));void 0; Just add a bookmark in your browser and use the [...]
I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to this mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c: 35 char daysbuf[15]; 36 if (days > 100) { 37 sprintf(daysbuf, “%d days(!), “, days); 38 } else if (days > 1) { 39 [...]
sudo can be used to give certain users access to commands that require root. This is handy when you’ve got lots of users that need to administer the system or software that resides within it. This also means you don’t have to distribute the . An example would be to allow a user to edit [...]
December 18, 2008 – 22:57
mplayer, vlc and even the horrible Totem would play my music, but my favourite media player — Audacious — wouldn’t. I like Audacious because of its plugins and subtle interface. Some searching around the web didn’t find many solutions except suggesting that the output plugin was incorrect. I managed to fix this by changing from [...]
