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.