Google hl=chr Language Setting

Annoying

Just came across annoying bug in Firefox Sync (probably related to previously using Foxmarks and Chrome sync), which resulted in constantly getting the Google homepage in Cherokee language, even at google.co.uk. Its because somewhere along the line, it set the language to chrome://… Which is truncated as “chr”, hence Cherokee. If you get the same [...]

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Ok it got updated

Old and inferior

Forgot to post on here but recently myself and James Lloyd updated 2StateReviews with a cleaner look and far simpler code. Now looks like this: Did look like this:

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Linux – Recursively Deleting Selected Files

Writing it up here because I keep having to do it and can never remember how: find . -name *.txt -exec rm -rf {} \;

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Virtualbox, Ubuntu Host, Windows XP Guest

Ran into a problem after running a Windows XP guest in Virtualbox, where I was unable to access some of the shares on a Virtualbox Share, giving me the helpful message “the request is not supported”. This share was working fine previously, and only occurred after updated to Virtualbox 3.2.12. After trawling forums I came [...]

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Split Tunnel VPN Connection – Ubuntu

Editing Work VPN

Followed a great quick article on split tunnelling my VPN connection here. What this means is normal network access (printers/internet/storage) still routes through your usual gateway, while your corporate IP resources route via the VPN. The only addition I had to make was to add the IP config for the corporate network I’m accessing under [...]

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