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Apple devices don’t support RGB output out of the box

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:25:34 +0000

i was about to return my new monitor, but discovered that Apple computer only output composite signals (YUV). so not RGB like most monitors are expecting. i guess you need a “special”, “Apple approved” monitor. fix the disgusting flickering and artifact using this https://gist.github.com/GetVladimir/c89a26df1806001543bef4c8d90cc2f8#alternative-terminal-commands-to-force-rgb-color-output-on-m1-and-m2-based-macs-and-workaround-for-losing-rgb-color-after-waking-up-from-sleep that completely fixed it for me on my Philips 328E 1CA…

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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…

Random macos bugs and fixes

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:01:38 +0000

Right, I’ve had a macbook for a while now, and been using it quite regularly, but it’s only since stopped using Windows completely that all the bugs begin to appear! 😩 This is a list of these weird annoying bugs and their fixes. BUG! Escape key stops working. well, it just stops working everywhere. i…

Rosrants.com is now using SSL Cert – Howto Set Up SSL For Free

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:33:39 +0000

This site is now using SSL. Pfft! About time, says you. I am using a free cert from letsencrypt.org – it was all very confusing and magical to set up. You need to use a ACME client – I used https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh as you do not need root access with this one. Then SSH into your…

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Fuck Windows 10 – What a Piece of Shit.

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:22:13 +0000

So I was quite proud that I had never had to reinstall Windows since my first Windows XP laptop way back when. Many peers would talk of “refreshing” their PCs – LOSERS! Just look after your PC and it will not get wrecked! You fools!!! I have always said. I had a hairy moment back…

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Virgin Media Speed Test.

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:51:46 +0000

It seems like a heck of a long time since I have had a proper wired Internet connection. Here’s a CAT 5e connection straight through two floor/ceilings and a wall to the UPC router Virgin Media Hub. Things are on the upswing again :-)

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Dropbox Indexing Maxing out CPU on Windows Boot [UPDATED 22-02-2017]

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:13:25 +0000

[Originally Published on: Mar 10, 2016, but since updated to a working permanent fix] Dropbox is amazingly useful. But on windows it occasionally annoys the jayzis out of me of late. Maxing out my CPU and causing explorer and mouse to fight for resources with it. For example after creating several thousand new small files…

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BSPlayer Custom Codec AC3/DTS libffmpeg7_v19.so libffmpeg7_v20.so

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 03:03:10 +0000

How to fix “error loading ac3 audio” BSPlayer on android. Not bad! It has all the features I want, like floating window mode, and the in-app subtitle downloads work really well compared to any other player I have tried. So I was getting a message like “error loading ac3 audio” when trying to play certain…

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Easy Root Doogee X5 (3G version)

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 19 May 2016 00:45:19 +0000

Preamble This works on the Doogee X5 running Android 5.1; the 3G version, i.e. not the X5 Pro (4G version). This method does not involve any risky flashing of unknown binary blobs. It uses the stock recovery and an update zip file to install root and SuperSU. There are of course risks when installing anything…

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Unbrick Root Vodafone Smart 4 Mini (Vodafone 785)

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 07:07:18 +0000

History Got one of these phones new boxed for €50 unlocked. It’s an Italian Vodafone.it mobile. Has MT6572 dual core 1.3GHz and 512MB + 4GB (2GB /sdcard). Found the phone a little slower than expected, seems to have squashfs installed from errors I was getting (a type of zipped filesystem) :-/ Couldn’t find any updates…

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CSS @media Queries With Orientation Example

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:39:27 +0000

Like the title says. For your reference, an example set of media queries conforming to Bootstrap 3’s width breakpoints. Here is the example. EXAMPLE CODE HERE. Check the code, and play with the width and height of your viewport to see where the queries reach. Notes On The Example This example is mobile first like your…

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Make Firefox Smaller / Zoom Out / More Compact

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:21:47 +0000

If you use Firefox and can not find that perfect compact theme, fear not, we can easily just change the size of everything! In address bar go to about:config. Search in there for the setting layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. For default size set it to -1.0 or 1.0. I usually set mine around 0.9 to 0.95 for slightly…

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Doogee Leo DG280 root

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:35:41 +0000

After a lot of searching and trying various things I found an incredibly easy method to root my new Doogoo Leo DG280 phone. It is an Android 5.0 r15 version by the way. Simply follow the link (http://www.kingroot.net/) and download & run the APK file. Simple as. Do not be frightened by the Chinese website,…

Disassemble Viewsonic VG2436vm-LED

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 18:59:13 +0000

I had a quick search online and there does not seem to be a guide for this so I will document my disassembly of my Viewsonic VG2436vm-LED 24″ monitor. N.B. *** BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER ***: I just spent a long time part disassembling this and it was not worth the time and effort…

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rosrants.com

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:27:32 +0000

I have made a new purchase. You can now access this blog via the shorter URL rosrants.com =)

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Collaborating on WordPress Site Development

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:44:02 +0000

Just how does a team of 2+ people go about collaborating on WordPress site development? That’s something I’ve been fooling around with over the last while now. Having used Git and SVN for programming work, it seemed like a no brainer that this was probably the way to go. SVN has fallen out of favour…

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Samsung Code to Delete dumpstate/logcat

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:20:29 +0000

Running out of precious “internal” memory on a Samsung phone? This may help slightly: the Samsung code to get to “Delete dumpstate/logcat” is *#9900# What does “Delete dumpstate/logcat” do? It does what it says, it deletes dumpstates (coredumps from software crashes I assume), and deletes logs (informational/error event logs), both of which are not much…

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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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Reload Autohotkey Script when Modified

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:31:39 +0000

I just made an update to reload Autohotkey script when modified. There are a few ways to do this. When I am editing a script directly I use these hotkey functions: ^!s:: Send ^s ;save this file (this assumes your editing this file when you press it though ; TODO: NEEDS FIXING! <-why? most…

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Nerd Humour

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 21 May 2014 01:40:11 +0000

I was just reading through a batch file for encfs4win, it reads: @echo off rem Batch file for mounting encfs encrypted folders title encfs: Mount an encrypted folder to a decrypted one rem Check if Windows XP or Windows 7 rem XP: C:\Documents and Settings (or language specific folder) rem 7: C:\Users set oprsystem=%appdata:~3,5% if…

Readynas NV+ v2 “C: unprotected”

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 20 May 2014 01:13:07 +0000

Firstly, do not put desktop HDs in your NAS! You will have timing errors between RAID and hard drive hardware. Total pain, and worrying for nothing about perfectly fine drives. If it’s too late and you already have done this (like me!) read on =) Trick for forcing a resync on hard drive marked as…

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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…

UPC (Ireland) upgrade [edit: Fuck UPC Technicolor]

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:54:00 +0000

I recently did a UPC package upgrade. They insisted on giving me a new modem. hopefully these Technicolor modems aren’t a pile o shite n start crapping out on me like the dodgy Cisco they tried to peddle to me until i got it replaced with an older model… …so far so good. [EDIT: NOPE!…

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Micro$oft no longer supports Windows Gadgets

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 09:24:00 +0000

So apparently Microsoft no longer supports windows gadgets AKA windows sidebar AKA desktop gadgets. But why? The reasons stated are that they present the possibility of posing a security threat. (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/gadgets) Upon further reading of the security threat posed (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/security/advisory/2719662) they basically describe the same threat that installing ANY PIECE OF SOFTWARE WHATSOEVER poses. Microsoft…

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Want to know what dd is doing?

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:12:00 +0000

From another terminal type kill -USR1 $pid, where pid=`pidof dd`. This causes dd to spit out data speeds and amounts transferred so far. you might wrap it up in something like: pid=`pidof dd` while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 5; done Apparently pidof is deprecated or something?? If you…

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