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Intro to cron / crontab

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:50:02 +0000

I have a network share I am hosting on a linux NAS in my house. There are a couple of annoyances with Apple lusers leaving .DS_Store files all over the network share, and messed up permissions on the files people upload to the share. Solution? Learnt about cron and set up a couple of jobs…

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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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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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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High Impedence Burnt Out My Soundcard?

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:41:00 +0000

So one channel on my laptop’s soundcard has gotten faded volume levels with no bass.I recently got a pair of KRK Rokit 8s but they are hardly the problem if functioning correctly no?I also did start using my AKG K601 headphones a little which have a high impedence @ 120 Ohms. Could this be the…

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Bricked my Galaxy Note (Soft Brick Phew!)

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:33:00 +0000

Very intense day today as I luckily only soft bricked my GT-N7000. Got stuck in bootloop after an unsuccessful rom upgrade when returning to nandroid backup. And no i didn’t use stupid stock ICS kernel. Reflashed stock rom with Odin and it decided to fail :-O, redid it and felt very lucky when it worked!…

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Cool workstation

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:45:00 +0000

Adding one of these to my wishlist: Anyone want to buy me one of these? ;-) http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products

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Web Spider

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:02:00 +0000

Grab a website with all links. First get GNU’s wget if you don’t have it installed already.I used this to grab a copy of my router’s GUI: wget --http-user="" --http-password="1234" --recursive --convert-links -e robots=off 192.168.1.1 Obviously replace usr/pwd and URL where necessary. This grabs all pages and links that 192.168.1.1 leads to. For websites with…

Taking Apart a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:33:00 +0000

I got some beer or cider under a couple of keys on this keyboard. seems like a lot of screws to open it, i count 13, seems excessive. I googled, as opening these things can get tricky, but couldn’t find any guides, hence this post, so i’ll let ya know if ya need to take…

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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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Ubuntu 10 (Lucid Lynx) Linux Post-Install Set Up Tips

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:49:00 +0000

***just found this post in my drafts folder on blogger, a little out of date at this point as i wrote it at least 1.5 years ago*** 1) don’t use 64-bit unless you have more than 3.5 GB of RAM installed. more trouble than it’s worth. 2) to change minimize, maximize, close window buttons from…

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Chinese Hackers

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:45:00 +0000

I opened up an FTP server recently on my home PC. Being security conscious I used implicit FTPS and daily logging. Day one of opening the port I have an attempted log on from an IP address originating in China 61.160.207.123. No other unknown logins/attempts. Harro harro! What you want china? I wonder if this…

Free DynDns (Sort Of)

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:36:00 +0000

So I wanted to access my home network from outside. My ISP doesn’t hand out static IPs and DynDns doesn’t work on my router / also i don’t want to pay for it anyhow. Solution: All I really want is my IP address. This can be displayed from sites like whatismyip.com very easily. We’ll do…

Regedit Under Windows x64

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:57:00 +0000

So apparently under 64bit windows there’s a “hidden” 32bit registry. This explains how programs were autostarting on me without me knowing exactly how. The relevent path under regedit64 is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun Well fuckiddy-doo, someone could a told me eh? Well actually they did http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305097 Don’t go editing those keys with the 64bit version of regedit though!…

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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Seemingly Impossible Broadband Connection.

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:22:00 +0000

the great mcmonkeys1 is now working tech support for an ISP. i came accross a customer with an interesting ADSL modem. this customer’s telephone line is really shit, he’s in dire need of an engineer to fix his cabling to the house. the fault is pretty bad, there is alien current / voltage on this…

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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…

Dennis Ritchie is dead. Long live UNIX and C!

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:44:00 +0000

Sad news and no fanfare for the passing of this s/w giant =( Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

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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…