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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…

MrChrisEllis — 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!

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

Goodidea — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:22:04 -0000

I have the same probleme because i need my email Gawab.com to remember my Password from Twitter !!!
Its Horrible !!!
http://formations.50webs.com

Re: ITV and X Factor admit to “improving” contestants auditions (Updated)

Billybulio — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:16:30 -0000

As if Simon Cowell didn't know about it in the first place, he'll have thought of it, he's just saying that now because it has come out

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

KJC — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:53:09 -0000

Thank you!
This post is so clear and easy to follow. We ordered the exact component from RS (via your link) they were excellent on the telephone too. A short car ride to pick up (the day after ordering on-line) and then the "excitement" of taking the box apart and firing up the gas powered soldering iron!
16 minutes from start to finish. Watching the box turn on and re-tune was a magic moment.
Isn't the internet (and forum posters such as yourself) a wonderful thing :)

Re: How to: Google+ easily from your iPhone (UPDATE)

Dave — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:31:34 -0000

I don't have a blackberry, but I assume if you log in to the mobile version of Google+ then follow this:

http://docs.blackberry.com/en/...

That should give you a similar result.

Re: How to: Google+ easily from your iPhone (UPDATE)

John Deary — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:19:16 -0000

Is there a workaround for the blackberry?

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

Keith — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:12:43 -0000

Thanks Dave, you were spot on got the caps from RS dived straight in, had to work out which was the + & - leg on the cap didnt take the mother board out left the legs long and just bent them over and soldered happy days, thanks again for your help. Fantasti

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

Dave — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:23:24 -0000

You are just looking for a capacitor that's rated at 6.3 volts, and 680µF (Microfarads)

On the UK RS Components site (http://uk.rs-online.com), the following part numbers should be fine:

571-278
715-2379
711-0729

The top one has a minimum order of 5, whilst the others are higher, but any of them should do the job.

Cheers

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

Keith — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:19:58 -0000

brilliant people like you who share knowlege are brill. tried copying and pasting the componant for my dmr-ex75 but cant find it can you tell me the full part No please. Thanks Keith

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

Lindsay Heydon — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:40:03 -0000

Thanks for your help. Brilliant. We followed your instructions and had success too. We didn't take the motherboard out though, so my blog may help others with a shortcut to save the trouble of reassembling most of it... http://multigen.blogspot.com/2...

Thanks again. You saved us a small fortune.

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

Paul Odtaa — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:03:15 -0000

Thanks Dave - I have the same problem and I'm getting a friend, who knows how to get dirty with an electronic circuit board, to fix it. Your description if very helpful.

My cost to get it fixed is a couple of beers as opposed to as you say buying a new recorder.

Good luck with your studies.

Re: Ripping (the best quality) audio from YouTube to listen on an iPod…

Dave — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:58:54 -0000

Not sure how you'd go about doing this with webM files, there will, most likely, be a way. As, from what I've read, webM files use Vorbis, extracting the audio in the say way I have done with the mp4 files would result in a perfect extraction. Basically, what we're doing is extracting the audio data from the video, and repackaging it as an audio file.
Like I said, it should be possible to do with webM to OGG Vorbis, but I haven't looked into it.

Re: Ripping (the best quality) audio from YouTube to listen on an iPod…

captaincrunch — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:11:04 -0000

great guide cheers!

Re: Ripping (the best quality) audio from YouTube to listen on an iPod…

Leo — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:28:23 -0000

So how can you do this with webM files? Or does exporting to Vorbis degrade the quality...?

Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

La — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:19:31 -0000

Thanks Dave! The patch above threw an error for me as well, but the link you added to sourceforge worked great. It took me about 5 minutes to solve the issue thanks to you!

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

Wizandjohn — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:59:55 -0000

Glad you were able repair this. I have this model but like many people an unable to understand how to deleat adverts etc from a recording on the hard disc and then trans fer the recording to a dvd. Can you help with a simple set of instructions for this. I am recording on the hard disc in FR mode.
I have been able to record of air direct to a dvdd. John

Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

Dave — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:48:32 -0000

Cheers, I'll add this to the post

Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

Ehud — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:06:45 -0000

Hi,
tried patching on 3.8.0 and it failed with a message about a malform in line 6 (my $url). however, i eventually managed to patch with the one from the ddclient site, here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker...

thanks for your post.

Re: Making DDClient work with multiple domains on namecheap

Stu — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:33:03 -0000

Thanks, Dave! Following your directions I couldn't get the patch to apply properly. But I hand-edited the ddclient source and "Voila" multiple namecheap domains updated.

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

Clare — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:16:16 -0000

Many thanks for posting this advice. Following your advice and the advice on here (http://www.avforums.com/forums.... We have successfully repaired the Freeview tuner on our dmr-ex75, at a cost of about £20 for the soldering iron and capacitor.
I documented our efforts on this Youtube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I hope it inspires other people like me who have never soldered before.