Category Archives: geek
Zend Framework QuickStart Tutorial: What are the filenames?
I’ve just worked my way through the Tutorial for the PHP Zend Framework. I overlooked downloading the code at the start and launched straight into it creating each piece myself from the tutorial. After the first couple of pages they … Continue reading
A 30-second Geek chair review: Aeron, Mirra, or Leap?
A chair is an underrated essential item for a programmer; consider how much time is spent in it. Things came to a head when I moved recently. Whilst lugging around all those boxes and furniture my back insisted on telling … Continue reading
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Set a Static IP Address with Ubuntu Linux
Problem I want to ensure my linux server always has the same IP address. If it still wants to use dhclient to find a dynamic ip address, and the nameservers, then that’s ok too. Solution By setting an “alias” for … Continue reading
Schedule specific files with Transmission-remote
Problem You’re using transmission remotely and you don’t want to download every file in a particular torrent, just some of the files in it. (V1.34 web interface doesn’t implement this functionality). Solution Use transmission-remote to view and (de)select specific files. … Continue reading
Schedule transmission bittorrent
Problem Transmission doesn’t include any scheduling functionality to start/stop/trottle torrents during the day/week. Solution Don’t run the gui client. Instead (or as well) invoke transmission-daemon from the command line and use crontab to apply the schedule via transmission-remote Method Install … Continue reading
Start Headless vbox on windows
This post is out of date. So I updated it. See the Windows 7 way to run virtualbox machines headless I keep forgetting this simple little line to start a virtualbox so that it behaves like a remote server (ie … Continue reading
How to stop Googleupdate.exe running
All of: 1) Kill the process “googleupdate.exe” 2) run “msconfig” and uncheck “GoogleUpdate” from the “StartUp” tab 3) SystemTools->Scheduled Tasks uncheck the “Enabled” box under the “Task” tab of “GoogleUpdateTaskUser”
TV Tuner applications are not mature
Wasn’t the opening ceremony pretty? Since getting a dual TV Tuner card I cannot believe how difficult it has been to find the right TV Tuner software. My criteria centered around things like: DVB-T (the rest-of-the-world uses this digital TV … Continue reading
Right align icons in a header
A little curiousity I’ve found trying to put icons inside my headers. The order is significant (IE6/7 and FF2) such that to get the right effect I should put the images before the text. This is what I get if … Continue reading
