Holga Lens Testing on Nikon D50
This afternoon I excitedly unpacked my new Holga lens which came from the far east, using eBay. £12 is a bargain for anything that attaches to a camera, just takes a bit of time to get here. A Holga lens…
Restricting your development Apache webserver to local access only
Easiest and quickest way to do this is to change ports.conf so that it contains: Listen 127.0.0.1:80 … followed by a service restart.
Running Java Applications as an Upstart job
This took a bit of messing about to get going, mostly because I didn’t navigate to the correct path before running the command. # /etc/init/sim.conf # Task to automatically start the simulator service for demo # dependant on mysql service…
Ignoring files and directories in SVN
I keep forgetting how to do this as I don’t use SVN often enough, and then when I do need to do it the SVN docs are fairly sketchy on it. Make a text file with the following type of…
Last night visited a restaurant that had unlimited salad AND MEAT
You hear that Harvester! UNLIMITED MEAT! (£15) Google+: View post on Google+
My entry for the massive glasses competition
Looks like I used a jazzy effect on the picture, but no! That's just linux!? Google+: View post on Google+
Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”
It’s got a silly name, I don’t know what an Ocelot is, or what Oneiric means but perhaps I’m just undereducated. With the new release of Ubuntu 11.10 I managed to give it a full week of release before going…
XBMC running on HP Microserver – Tweaks
A few things I noted during the first few weeks of running XBMC Live installed on the HP Microserver: 100% CPU Usage Lots of old posts on various forums about this that can lead you down all sorts of dead…
Media Server – HP ProLiant Athlon II Neo N36L MicroServer (XBMC)
For some time now I’ve been wondering whether to chop my existing media centre PC in for something a bit more lounge friendly. It was a bit noisey, even with a low noise PSU and to be honest a Novatech…
SSH to Multiple Hosts at the Same Time (cssh)
Again, there is a lot of information about this elsewhere but I drop this here as a guide for myself. This is written for Ubuntu, tweak according to linux distro. Install cssh with: $ aptitude install cssh Generate default configuration:…
Stalk Me
Who said I was hard to find!?