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Touchcursor using QMK/VIA

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 14:44:23 +0000

i just received one of these Keychron QMK/VIA beasts. I’ve opted for the Keychron K9 Pro, for reasons i’ll likely go into in too much depth about. i couldn’t find a guide on setting QMK up to act like Touchcursor, hence this guide on setting up your QMK keyboard via VIA (why not give VIA…

Hypnosis for Beginners

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:08:31 +0000

I wrote a tiny website many moons ago and never got back to it at isntthat.greatnow.com. Mainly I was hacking away the ugly ads that are injected into the free website’s page, but there was one gem of info, and I think it belongs here so that I will maintain it. The following is copypasta…

WP-CLI not working on namecheap.com [SOLVED]

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:37:11 +0000

So when I tried to run WP-CLI on namecheap.com with php wp-cli.phar --info absolutely nothing happened. It just went to the next line in the terminal, no hints nothing. Background Some background, I bought some incredibly cheap webhosting from namecheap.com today. Real cheap! Like €8 for the first year. You can bring along your own…

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Wer (2013)

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:23:11 +0000

Wer Overview Just watched Wer there. I was not expecting much from this, but Wer turned out to be pretty watchable. Wer is a modern werewolf movie, with the usual modern minor twists on what a werewolf is, no silver bullets though. It started off looking like it was going to be yet another mockumentary,…

I don’t like pirated software, but my hand was forced.

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:34:13 +0000

I don’t like pirated software, but my hand was forced. My motherboard fried and had to be replaced, pain. Reinstalled everything hardware and software, pain pain. Windows activation? Ah yeah go ahead …Error: multiple installations limit detected. Click to activate by phone, leads to blank page. Let’s try this a different way, blank page blank…

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Biosphere – Patashnik 2 (2014)

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 19 May 2014 23:30:39 +0000

Biosphere – Patashnik 2 (2014) is an interesting album of unreleased tracks and versions of tracks from around the time the original Patashnik was released by Geir Jennsen in 1994. Listen to album now Here’s a link to the fully listenable Biosphere – Patashnik 2 album on bandcamp: http://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/patashnik-2 Quick Review of Biosphere – Patashnik 2 I…

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UPC Speed Upgrade (for Free!)

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 02 May 2014 20:24:41 +0000

So apparently UPC have given me a free speed upgrade, imagine my surprise when I noticed that a linux DVD (3GB) was downloading at 14.4MB/s. Did a quick speed test on my 50Mb connection and lo and behold this was the result: Meh. I may as well explain a common confusion here about MB versus…

Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ V2 (RND4000)

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:13:00 +0000

Just bought one of these for €200. It’s a compromise on price performance. I wanted 1 gigabit read/write, but would have to shell out a lot more to approach these figures. The unit looks good. As you may have read in other reviews the drive bays are way too accessible and easy to take out.…

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I’m back with UPC!

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:26:00 +0000

O joy of joys! In the last 10.5 months I’ve had to suffer with a data connection ranging from 40k thru my nokia phone with bad drivers, to ADSL on a 2Mb connection that at best connected at 1800kbps and was completely intermittant.But finally I’m back with UPC!!! check it: Prepare urself UPC, acceptable usage…

Just got a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 !!

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Just received this by courier! Fantastic, it’s huge! Right hand side is level with a UK / IRL size electricity plug.<p>right hand side </p>

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Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:33:00 +0000

My awesome new Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED monitor (pics pending). Another fantastic gift to myself ;-) Thanks Ros! No problem, anytime Ros. 24″ 1080p, colours look vibrant, contrast ratio is high. Viewing angles are no great shakes, but no worse than other monitors. The most stand-out feature is pivot support (rotation) so that monitor can go into…

OCZ Agility 3 60GB

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Santa’s been! Actually I bought this one myself. I have a Lenovo R400 Thinkpad, it takes about 4/5mins to boot up and hard drive always seems to be thrashing. Seemed to be getting 40-60 MB/sec moving large files off the hard drive which is pretty shit. Bought myself an OCZ Agility 3 60GB and fuck…

Meteor mobile broadband.

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:08:00 +0000

hooked my laptop up to my phone with a usb cable. so i now have internet at home, wahey! here are my stats from speedtest.net, bathe in their glory ;-) Hot shit no? My emails are blazing down in mere minutes!

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Firefox v4

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:27:00 +0000

Upgraded to Firefox v4 there last night. Seems to want to crash all over the shop. It’s also using a whopping 400+ MBs of ram. I’d recommend any Firefox users delay their upgrade until next incremental release, at least (version 4.1?). Other than that, the GUI interface now resembles Google Chrome. There is also built-in…

“C Programming in Linux” by David Haskins. An alternative to “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:41:00 +0000

I found this great book for learning C. Lesson 1 is the usual “hello world” console app, but literally the next example dives into using it as a CGI script. It teaches all the usual C console output stuff, but concentrates on web programming with C and apache web server. This is great, as the…

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Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Review

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:30:00 +0000

I’ve owned a 1TB Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive (hmnhd for short) for about a year now. It’s damned handy for sharing media files between my computers (and housemates). In fact, if it was feasible, i would use a network hard drive for all my data across machines and OSes. There are however drawbacks.…

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Stanton Final Scratch 2

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:47:00 +0000

have had the stanton box, timecode records, and a zillion leads sitting in it’s box for nearly 3 years. just got the correct firewire lead for it, *and* ditched trying to get the software that came with it to work. i don’t like using illegal software, but in this case it was actually the only…

thomann.de delivery!!!

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:49:00 +0000

excitement overload as this box appears GOODS! YAY! playtime!gotta fix up my big PC box first tho.. update: installed new system fan and disabled on-board graphics. still givin me jip. unpacked my new AKG 601s. incredibly comfortable so far, nice big cushions, circumaural design covers the ears well. con: lead is well embedded in there,…

Gibson Road, Glasgow

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:32:00 +0000

Street festival, great ska band, sun shining the fuck outtovit, lashing cans into plastic cups, good times… Gibson road street festival, part of the fortnight long West End Festival in Glasgow. Glasgow in general? Great city, great vibe, beautiful buildings, a shite load of art n culture, and cheap as chips. Expect to pay £1.69…