I was trying to find an open source licence that would fit my purpose for my Trend Analyser project. After some googling I found a wonderful website “Choose a Licence” This showed specifically what each main licence does and gave templates to use. It made it easier than reading through and trying to understand all
In opera normally click and drag or selection doesn’t work. This is because in opera Gmail serves up some CSS that breaks the display and stops you clicking and dragging text. To fix this, you can enable opera’s list of JavaScript changes, to make popular sites work. This is done by visiting: http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/
How to add a user to a group in Linux usermod -a -G Its a simple as that. So for me adding the user “chewett” to the user “vboxusers” i run the command usermod -a -G vboxusers chewett The -a flag means that the new group is appended, without it you will overwrite your current
When trying to install MySQL Server it failed with the message “Could not access network location \Hewlett-Packard\\” After some searching it turns out this is a common issue where HP have inserted a registry entry with the install path of “\Hewlett-Packard\\” which isnt a valid location. This can be resolved by removing this entry. This
To find the location of GeoIP for PHP you can ssh into the server and use the “find” command. find / -iname GeoIP.dat Will return a list of file paths where the file with this name is found. In my case I found: /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat /opt/geoip/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat In my case the bottom link was the one
Vim is a wonderful command line text editor with syntax highlighting and everything you could ask for provided you turn on the functionality. Recently i was shown that it was also show trailing whitespace with a quick addition to the .vimrc file. All you need to do is add the following: set list set listchars=tab:→\
If your computer is recent and has an i3/i5/i7 intel core and a Nvidia graphics card it likely uses Optimus technology. This smart piece of software turns off the power-hungry Nvidia graphics card and runs most programs on the integrated intel graphics chip. In laptops this can save a lot of power. However this solution
Windows 7 has a really nice feature that lets you tile a window to the left or right of the screen, allowing easier placement. This is normally activated with the Windows-(left, right, up down) Arrow key combination. I had searched how to do this with XFCE for a while and today after upgrading to Fedora
After i installed Fedora 18 XFCE i found that it by default doesnt show the icons on the application menu. I normally navigate it by checking the images and not reading the words, so this inconvenienced me. On checking the properties I found that “Show icons in menu” was checked but it did not seem to
A IRC client lets you connect to a IRC server enabling you to join chatrooms on that server. IRC servers do not by default store logs while you are not logged in. This can be annoying if you wish to keep informed of whats going in on the chatroom. One solution to this is to never
During Christmas I got a raspberry pi and I have been waiting to start playing around with it for ages. Finally I decided to order the remaining pieces for it such as the power cable and SD card. Since I didn’t have a HDMI TV around I decided to plug it into the router and
Since i reinstalled my laptop a couple of weeks ago the sound of many applications randomly got reduced requiring me to go into the sound mixer to restore the levels. I noticed this most often when i plugged in my iPhone into the computer. Since i initially thought this was related to my iPhone in
A 20-year-old hacker has been recently arrested in Amiens, France after allegedly stealing 500k euros from unwitting victims. The hack worked by downloading and modifying android applications with a trojan which would call premium rate numbers in exchange for SMS codes for playing online lotteries. Central Office for the Fight against Crime Linked to Information
On the left you can see the WikiLeaks “paywall” image that you currently see when visiting some of the released leaks. The “paywall” is now simple to get around just by reloading the page however it encourages you to donate, spread the word by sharing the video or posting to twitter. However in the first
I recently was recommended Breaking Free to listen to as background drum and bass music, but when downloading (available for free at the above link) it I found it was a single mp3 with a “cue” file. The Cue files tells a media player how to split up the mp3 into different tracks, and has information
I’m relatively surprised that I hadn’t heard of her before a couple of weeks ago. While discussing small loop optimizations with some friends someone referenced her nanoseconds video (see below). This short video explains quite simply, the concept of a nanosecond. After seeing her talk about nanoseconds, I went to research her a bit further
I finally got around to fixing WordPress Jetpack plugin! This tool is a useful plugin that allows you to add a large amount of functionality that is turned on by default on wordpress.com accounts. This was something i was really interested in getting working because i wanted some more stats and other things. Sadly when
I eventually decided that i would start a blog that would document various things I do, if not for everyone, but myself. Numerous times over the past year I have felt I wanted to write long posts about certain topics that I meet, but haven’t had a medium to do so. The search for a
