I’m feeling generous today, so here’s a link to my local Thai Takeaway, who seem to be rather unloved by Google, and maybe a link to them will help. www.tastythaitakeaway.co.uk Real world address: Tasty Thai Takeaway 10 Wostenholm Road SHEFFIELD S7 1LJ Phone: 0114 327 0990 They’re closed on Tuesdays…
Int to Real D = A + B x 10 ^ (-C) Real to Int A = XXXXXX.YYYYYY C = XXXXXX D = Round 0.YYYYYY to B decimal places, then multiply by 10 ^ B At least I think this is what it’s supposed to do – it seems to…
Updated, now that I’ve found out how to directly enter a character code Updated again. I’ve lost all the uploads to this site, so while the tables might still be useful, you’ll need to generate the characters youself if you want to see them. If you’re the curious type (quite…
Sysprep With the OOBE and Generalise options, Will preserve user accounts Drivers will automatically re-install Remembers network keys Forgets network locations (Home/Work/Public) Updates remain installed Windows update need to complete an initial scan Microsoft update is turned off Action Centre items in default state Antivirus starts and works correctly
Ever wanted to list all the files in a directory tree – I tend to find this useful when checking if there’s anything in a mass of automatically generated directories Use this command: dir /S /A:-D /B Here’s what the switches mean: /S Look in all subdirectories /A:-D Don’t show…
EDIT: Don’t follow this, a properly set up installation will keep itself updated Updating wordpress: mkdir ~/temp cd ~/temp/ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz cd /var/www/html/ sudo rm -Rf wp-admin/ sudo rm -Rf wp-includes/ sudo cp -R ~/temp/wordpress/wp-admin/ . sudo cp -R ~/temp/wordpress/wp-includes/ . rsync -vcrultO ~/temp/wordpress/wp-content/ wp-content/ sudo chgrp…
Download the relevant SpiderOak binary – for the 32-bit Fedora installer it’s: wget https://spideroak.com/getbuild?platform=fedora&arch=i386 Install sudo yum install spideroak-download-file.rpm Set up, using interactive mode /usr/bin/SpiderOak –setup=- Enter details and protect your data! Use cron to run this command as frequently as necessary /usr/bin/SpiderOak –batchmode
I’ve trying to get my Raspberry Pi working with a touchscreen (eGalax Touch). This blog post has been an incredible help, but I stumbled at the very last hurdle – modifying the contents of the SD card. You see, my compile system (Ubuntu 13.04) was in a virtual machine (VM)…
A couple of days I posted a short script, that did a few very simple tasks – that was just a start, to help me get into Gimp Scripting, and help with a little job. Today’s task is quite a bit meatier. I’m doing tech for a play, and I…
I’ve just been playing with Gimp, and getting to grips with the scripting system. I’m sharing a very basic script – it only does two simple tasks: Sets the image to Grayscale Rotates 90 degrees counter-clockwise It doesn’t need any extra parameters, so I thought I’d share it as a…