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The Problem with Internet Censorship

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:38:32 +0000

If you can think of valid reasons for Internet censorship, the problem is that someone always wants to abuse it. Check out these weirdos: https://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-most-idiotic-copyright-complaint-150222/

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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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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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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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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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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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3D Cinema

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:48:00 +0000

I saw Martin Scorcese’s Hugo in 3D in the cinema last night. Everytime I go to the cinema in the last while I’m dissapointed by the small screens, often lack of surround sound, and appalling shutter speeds. The 3D was good, and the movie was not too gimmicky about it, but did use it. BUT!…

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…

Put Archlinux on my eee pc 901

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:21:00 +0000

I decided to wipe eeebuntu 8.04 from my eee pc 901. I have put on archlinux which turns out to be great! you have a lot more control of ur installation with archie, and i’ve gone for a very lightweight approach to suit my netbook. No desktop environment, just using openbox window manager, and carefully…

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All-in-one RAID0 SSD Drive on PCI-Express

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:57:00 +0000

120GB OCZ RevoDrive PCI-Express SSD Solid State Disk (read 540MB/sec – write 480MB/sec) for €327! Almost affordable, and you get 2 quality SSDs with built in hardware RAID0 communicating over 1GB/s PCIe x4 bus. My current set up feels fast (~150MB/s read/write 2x 7200rpm 64MB cache spinny drives, fake/soft-nvraid) and cost just over half that…

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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…

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

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:36:00 +0000

1) don’t use 64-bit unless you have more than 3.5 GB of RAM installed. more trouble than it’sworth. 2) to change minimize, maximize, close window buttons from left side to right side of top of window: run gconf-editor and go to /apps/metacity/general/button_layoutchange from “close,minimize:” to “menu:minimize,maximize,close” 3) get the win key working: run gconf-editor and…

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US Drones “Hacked” By Iraqi Insuregents

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:56:00 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-american-drones-hacked Pretty amazing what the US military counts as “hacking”. OK I think a lot of people know that what the media calls hacking is actually “cracking” -circumventing security systems. The US military it would seem have another view entirely. A method one could use to “hack” the military drones is to tune in a…

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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,…

My Big PC Box

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:58:00 +0000

problems problems, have had my new box a couple o months now, but ain’t had chance t fix it. prob is: hangs after logging into windows (server 2008rc2 & win7, both 64-bit). used to hang with definite graphics card probs -screen set to a random primary colour but could remote login to reboot, solved by…