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A free television

May 12, 2009 - Uncategorized - by admin - 2 Comments

Free to a loving home, my old, perfectly working 28″ television and cabinet. It takes a traditional antenna, has a working remote, S-Video inputs on the side, and two SCART sockets on the back. Collection from Yoker, G14 0NT at evenings or weekends. We live up two flights of stairs, […]

Zebraimg

May 6, 2009 - Books , Geek , Uncategorized - by admin - 2 Comments

A while back I set up an account with Shelfari. Stuck without a barcode scanner, I came up with an alternative method of importing the ISBN numbers…

Happy Birthday

April 7, 2009 - Uncategorized - by admin - No Comments

40 years ago, the first RFC was published. Lets all break out the cakes and candles! RFC 1

Avaya Playtime

March 7, 2009 - Avaya , Geek , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

OK, so I got to borrow an Avaya 4610SW from work, as it would be faster to play with firmware via TFTP on my home network than it would be when using the business network. These are some notes… Turn off 802.1q – my network doesn’t do tagging. Grab the […]

Zattoo on Kubuntu 0804

February 15, 2009 - Linux - by admin - No Comments

Want to make Zattoo work on Kubuntu 0804? It’ll most likely fail silently, without spitting out any useful error information. Some chopping up of ldd /usr/bin/zattoo_player output reveals that it’s useful to run sudo apt-get install dbus-x11, at which point zattoo_player will start working.