Computers / Computing / 'ting / Macs & PCs / Linux / Etc....
There's not a lot on here despite me never taking my hands off
the bloddy things. I'm one of those guys. A techie bastard. I like
my computers, that's for sure.
As an aid to those of you out there who are not technically minded,
from time to time I'll add things here that it took me ages to work
out. That way I know it's fucking complicated and hence others would
like to know it. I'll try to avoid irrelivant drivel.
Macintosh
- Filesys::SmbClient
Get the perl module Filesys::SmbClient working on your OS X macintosh.
firewire-tastic
Turn your Apple Macintosh into a Firewire
Hard Drive.
- startup
keys
How do you make your mac startup and eject
the CD that won't come out. How do you make it behave.
Check out this list.
PC
- windows messenger
Here's how to get rid of The Windows Messenger once and for all!
- parasites
Is your browser
opening more and more popup ads without explanation. Perhaps
you have a parasite invasion!
- winamp plugins
Need to spruce up your winamp. Here are my favourite plugins.
Unix / Linux
Linux
- umount + "Filesystem Busy"
How to get around a filesystem that just won't unmount itself
- handy unix system info commands
Some of what you need to fake being a unix system expert.
- unix control keys
How do you get back to the start of the line in unix apps without having to delete everything? Find out this and more here.
- magic definitions
Here are some extra magic definitions for the file(5) utility available on most unix versions. They cover such things as berkeley DBs and popular Perl Data Types.
- CPAN no root
A guide to installing CPAN modules without root access. Don't forget that PELR5LIB variable!
The Internet
- TCP/IP
Basic tcp/ip networking commands and their use
- Webcam Information
Information on setting up and configuring webcams
- MAC Addresses
What are they - what are they for and how can I find out what hardware someone is using?
- The
META Refresh
How to redirect
someone to another HTML page once the HTML headers have been
printed.
- HTML Downloads
Ever wondered how to make browsers automatically start downloading a file? Find out here.
- query string rewrite
Split your QUERY_STRING into a number of variables using mod_rewrite and .htaccess.
- mod_rewrite quick reference
I can never remember all of this stuff so I doubt you can. Most of the info was lifted from httpd.apache.org.
- html error codes
404? 500? What do they all mean? Find out the proper definitions of all of those html error codes here - now!
- loadVariables
Flash has great functionality for
loading external data but it's not exactly easy to use. Here
are some tips on using loadvariables in flash.