A couple of weeks ago I picked up an Acer Revo on the cheap as a replacement for my old behemoth of a HTPC. The Revo is a “nettop” with netbook parts in a slimline case not much bigger than many routers currently on the market. I picked up the basic version with 1GB RAM, [...]
Read more →Apologies for those of you trying to access my blog over the past couple of days: normal service has now resumed after getting severely let down by my old web host. Luckily I had some recent (but not fully up to date) backups so all bar a couple of the posts are intact. I’ll recreate [...]
Read more →If you want to be able to include Visio drawings within your LyX documents, the process is relatively painless as you can export the drawing as a PDF and embed the PDF directly into the document. First, create your diagram in Visio as normal. Then, click File > Page Setup, select the Page Size tab [...]
Read more →PDF’s generated with pdflatex, the pdf generator for LaTeX documents which is used by default in LyX, cannot be commented on directly through the use of Adobe Reader alone (currently as of version 9). See http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2008-August/007802.html for a good explanation for this. To enable this feature using only Adobe products you need to run the [...]
Read more →As an update to my “hello world” kernel module article, there is a much easier way to set up your Debian-based Linux (including Ubuntu) to build kernel modules, without manually getting the relevant kernel headers using apt-get. I’ve tested this process with Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 and 9.10 and it works great. Do the following to [...]
Read more →When writing for publication, you may be offered a .cls file from the journal in question in which to format a TeX document to their specification. Whilst this works great in TeX, usually by copying the class.cls file in your working directory where all your .tex files reside and adding \documentclass{class} in the preamble (before [...]
Read more →I keep all my media in a central location on a network store but I want to be able to play it on my iphone when I’m away without network connectivity. Most of the content is avi/divx/xvid which the iphone does not play natively. Handbrake is a really slick transcoder which converts a wide number [...]
Read more →Quagga is a suite of dynamic routing protocols for Unix based systems and is a fork of GNU Zebra, which seems to be discontinued. I attempted to follow the documentation but some steps seemed to be assumed so here is what I did to get it up and running on my Ubuntu 8.04 system – [...]
Read more →I’ve just deployed a few visual changes to my blog which should help with the readability and usability of the material on here. Included is: Increased post font size to make it easier to read. Removed link to technorati, their new beta website seems a bit broken at the moment. Moved the search box to [...]
Read more →Windows 7 Enterprise installs by default expect an Key Management Server (KMS) running on the local network by which to activate against. Hence when you try to activate an Enterprise copy from MSDN, it will fail with the error code 0x8007232B, as there is no KMS to activate with. The keys generated by an MSDN [...]
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