Well, here’s a very good reason to switch to the firefox web browser instead of using Internet Explorer. A new not-yet-patched exploit has been exposed that allows allows someone to run whatever they like on your computer. I’ve set it up myself to proove how easy it is: IE Exploit (loads calc.exe (after you click your OS) calculator (harmless!)). Say I wanted to steal money from you…I could quite easily make that page download a program to monitor what you type, like all your passwords etc.
Hi, yes, it’s finally returned in Java form, curtesy of Nick!
gallery.john-hunt.com
Remember, update your bookmarks by using ctrl+d, lots of new photos in there and clever bits and peices. Many thanks to Nick! No more ‘wheres the gallery’ now eh?! eh?
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This is the coolest thing ever, get it now and we’ll play. It’s basically tetris online against other people, highly addictive.
Totally free of course.
Tetrinet.org
I’ve written a script to convert .flac files to .mp3 and retain a useful directory structure. This is mad-handy for my w800i phone.
source_path="${1%/}/"; dest_base="${2%/}/"; bit_rate=$3 if [ ! -r "$source_path" ]; then echo "Source path not found." exit 2 fi if [ ! -r "$dest_base" ]; then echo "Destination base path not found" exit 2 fi if [ ! $bit_rate ]; then echo "No bit rate specified, defaulting to 128kbps" bit_rate=128 fi artist_album=`echo "$source_path" | sed 's:^.
Right, I’m moving john-hunt.com over to a new much much much faster server than this one. This will also save me £20 a month. You may experience problems trying to access the site over the next couple of days, but don’t worry, it will return! Update: All done, there shouldn’t be any loss of service, you should just notice it speed up a bit when your ISP’s master dns records get updated!
While extracting one of my favorite cds today and noticing it had heavy scratching on it, it occured to me it might have loads of errors while extracting. So I thought “I’ll just run an md5/sha1 checksum on it and verify it against CDDB’s checksums…” CDDB doesn’t have checksums for cd tracks. This is crazy.
I might have to set up my own database….if I ever get time.
Please let me know if you know of one.
I recently got a w800i mobile phone and I’ve been playing with it for about 24 hours now. It’s not bad at all! If you’re looking for an mp3 player phone thing, it’s rather perfect.
Works with Linux too (mass storage device stylee!)
What’s really cool is you can bluetooth your tunes to other people.
More here soon, maybe some pictures also. Or perhaps just check out the w800i forums!
Well, this one has had me stuck for ages…but Antoine from the linux-thinkpad mailing list managed to help out (thanks v.much!).
This mini-howto should help you get suspend working on your R50e, and perhaps many other laptops with the intel extreme graphics 2 chipset. The main problem is that the display is not restored properly or at all and you’re left with a blank screen.
Another symptom (that I was having) which was really frustrating me was I was left with a
People ought to stop using MSN. Did you know that Microsoft legally own everything you write on there? Start using the Jabber IM protocol. There are various clients out there for windows, one of them is called exodus which looks alright. Myself, I use gaim, which is primarily a linux client although I think there may be a windows version around.
It’s a good idea to start using something else, otherwise you’ll find microsoft taking over your lives even more.