Month: February 2009

Grrr! Just checked the TV listings for tonight and the Wales France Six Nations match is on BBC2. It isn’t on BBC HD or any of the Sky HD channels. Dunno if the French TV folk are providing the BBC… Continue Reading →

Got another stage further with the Apple Wireless Keyboard.. This post details a full installer that so far seems to do the whole job out of one single installer: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic34771.html It takes you off to a Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/uawks/… Continue Reading →

Having used a Happy Hacker Lite Keyboard for quite a few years, I’m used to having to use key combinations to page up, go ‘home’ or even to perform F4. Now that I’m using the Apple Wireless keyboard, through the… Continue Reading →

I wanted to take a screen shot of part of a website that I’m building at the moment. Googled around for ‘Vista screenshot’ and discovered the Vista Snipping Tool. Type snipping tool into the Command Bar on the Start Menu… Continue Reading →

I’ve been doing this unix lark for a pretty long time now but I’m never afraid to learn something new. Today’s lesson.. the ‘yes’ command. Part of the gnu coreutils, it echos a ‘y’ into your script (you can alter… Continue Reading →

As of 23:05 last night BT have recognised my sync rate of 8128kbps and have set my BRAS profile to 7150. Sorted! ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 8128 kbps 832 kbps Line Attenuation 16.0 db 9.0 db Noise Margin… Continue Reading →

I’ve been trying on and off for about six months to get my Apple Wireless Bluetooth keyboard working on Vista 64. The first part of the puzzle was finding a bluetooth dongle that had support for Vista 64. Most only… Continue Reading →