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Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

Tristan — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:14:34 -0000

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Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

Tristan — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:13:18 -0000

Thanks a lot! It works! I installed ddclient on Ubuntu 11.10 server and apply the patch. ddclient update the host immediately. Be careful while copy&paste the commands from this site. International user's browsers shows wrong charset ex. < as < . in $ patch < namecheap.patch for example....

Re: Email, can we live without it? (UPDATE)

Metamorfosen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:58:51 -0000

checked today /30.04.2012 gawab mail-server is down again.
cheers matth http://www.formideen.de/

Re: An open letter to Microsoft

Dave — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:50:45 -0000

Yes, that's the sad reality. Thankfully the very talented developers who work on the Wine project (http://www.winehq.org/) have worked very hard on getting applications like MS Office to work on systems like Linux. It's not an ideal solution (and is almost certain to violate Microsoft's EULA for Office) but it's the closest you can get to getting (arguably) the best Office Suite running on a PC not running Windows. The native solution would, of course, be perfect, but as you state before, they'd be reluctant to do so if it means their OS market share was to drop significantly!

Of course, this could be an opportunity to develop more programs for the Linux platform, or even create their own distribution (maybe with a proprietary front end, which could be sold separately for other distributions (A bit like CDE) ) for a profit. As long as they keep the open source components they use open, and under the GPL licence, there should be no reason why it shouldn't legally work for them. That way, Linux users get their MS Office, and Microsoft have their money maker.
Cheers

Re: How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

David — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:30:49 -0000

I have exactly the same problem, so I have just ordered the replacement capacitors and look forward to fitting one and fixing the problem. In expectation that it will be successful, I thank you very much for your expertise and making it available to the lay public.

Re: An open letter to Microsoft

Paulgrinberg — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:51:28 -0000

A lot has happened in the Operating System world since your letter. We have an exploding Linux user base as a result of Ubuntu, we have iOS with the iPad and iPhone not to mention Android. Microsoft needs that full MS Office suite to hold people hostage to it's Operating System. They know that if they released Office for Linux, their OS market share would dry up to 15% especially in the enterprise market who are all using Linux based server systems anyways. MS Office and the huge amount of high quality office type software is the only reason people still use Windows. Companies develop accessory applications for Windows because they know that the MS Office user-base is there in Windows still, if those users jumped to Linux nobody would want to develop Windows apps anymore.

Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

Richard Carson — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:31:24 -0000

Worked wonders. Thanks

Re: Email, can we live without it? (UPDATE)

TweakFix — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:41:14 -0000

Gawab is back on maintenance.. I hope this will be repaid to the users... if not they not worth anymore to be used.

Re: Email, can we live without it? (UPDATE)

Francoe — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:10:14 -0000

Same history here, even I have the same snapshot. Hahaha. My bad...

Re: How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

TTD — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:45:26 -0000

I realise it's one year on, but if WizandJohn or anyone else are still trying to figure this out, it's on Page 41 of the manual, the Partial Delete option, in the menu when you click 'Option' on a Direct Navigator item.

Re: YouTube to iPod Converter

Dave — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:08:30 -0000

Ooooh, hadn't noticed that dead link after redesigning my site. The new location is here: http://op-ezy.co.uk/YouTube2iP...

Cheers

Re: YouTube to iPod Converter

VPS Hosting — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:35:26 -0000

Alright! Thanks, any other download links? The link you have provided isn’t working. It says the page cannot be displayed.

Re: YouTube to iPod Converter

Dave — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:20:59 -0000

Cheers, it was programmed in VB.NET. It won't convert to MP3, as that would require re-encoding the audio, which would degrade the quality further. This application is designed to extract the AAC audio stream out of the file, and pack it in its own file with an M4A extension. Most media players will play them (with the exception of Windows Media Player, unless the appropriate codec is installed), and is the same file type iTunes defualts to when it extracts music from CDs, hence making it ideal for extracting audio for listening to on an iPod.

Re: How to hack into a friend’s Facebook account…

Dave — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:09:57 -0000

Ah, you got me. Strangely enough, none of my actual facebook friends wanted their accounts hacked into for the purpose of this article. But the process for hacking any account using unsecured facebook connections on compromised Wi-Fi accounts is essentially the same. Like I said before, public Wi-Fi and WEP encrypted networks are especially at risk, but WPA2 networks aren't immune if someone knows how to connect.

Re: YouTube to iPod Converter

VPS Hosting — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:31:16 -0000

Cool app mate, what programming language did you use in it? is it .NET? Can we convert any YouTube videos to mp3?

Re: To the music industry: Make file sharing work for you…

Managed Hosting — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:27:40 -0000

I think LimeWire is the most powerful in file sharing lie music’s and videos and thought SOPA is about to stop it.

Re: How to hack into a friend’s Facebook account…

Managed Hosting — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:42:41 -0000

HTTPS is very secure and very important from now, but I think Gary Newbigin is fake account or maybe he’s new using Facebook. He got 0 chat online, that’s nice! You’re a real hacker!

Re: How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

Dave — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:44:15 -0000

That's pretty much the classic symptoms, so hopefully it shouldn't be long before you get you recorder working again.

Re: How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

DannyR — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:37:05 -0000

The same thing has just happened to me, so I'll have a look at that cap. I'm and electronics engineer for a livings so you may have saved me the fault finding! I turned on the guide to record something tonight and none of the channels had any programmes listed. I tried flicking through all the DVB channels, nothing. Powering down, nothing. Retuning lost all the channels that had been there and replaced them with nothing. We don't have analogue broadcasts in my area anymore, which means this unit is now practically useless. So, hopefully the same cap has gone on mine.

Re: Stop SOPA, save your internet before it’s too late! (VIDEO)

Virtual Server Hosting — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:39:30 -0000

We should spread this out, stop SOPA as soon as possible and save our internet. With our daily access to internet we can fight this back.

Re: How to hack into a friend’s Facebook account…

Chris Ellis — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:36:28 -0000

I believe that if you log in to FB via https once it asks you if you want to continue logging in via the secure connection in the future.

This will be of importance to people who store Facebook credits and perhaps owners of Business pages. Good post, thanks.

Re: How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

Gracywhatever — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:25:44 -0000

Thanks for the heads up. I fixed my dmexr75 in under a day with $1.40 in parts and I have 4 spare! Thankyou again for your post as well as others who have added to the completeness of the instruction for alternate models. easy as.
Cheers

Re: How I saved (about) £400 on a new PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

Bigtp — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:07:19 -0000

Thats a brilliantly simple solution to my DMR EX75 "no freeview" problem, thanks very very much!

Now where is my screwdriver and soldering iron!

Tony P

Re: The food that could have killed me?

cheesehater...:-) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:05:19 -0000

I remember those! bloody vile!

Re: The dangers of buying cheap software!

Tired Badger — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:26:33 -0000

Dave
I have today (15th September 2011) been searching for new MS Office software and came across what looked like a marvellous deal via SoftAtlantic. Being an inherently suspicious person I firstly checked to see if the site had a UK address (as all UK companies are required to state, in accordance with the Companies Act) - it didn't state any address (surprise, surprise)!
A quick 'google' led me to your excellent blog. So it appears despite Microsoft's attempts, these guys are still producing bootleg versions.

P. S. With regards the 'Dave is a fuckwit' comments (for the sake of balance), I agree that Microsoft have manipulated the market over the years, to create a massive dominance, so that they can charge obscene prices for new software. However the answer isn't piracy, but competition. If that position can ever be reached it would force Microsoft to be competitive with their pricing. There are a number of opensource systems out there (I'm no expert), so the more people who begin to use them, then the weaker Microsoft's stranglehold becomes...wishful thinking I know!