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Forum - AV - Speaker Cable

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:36:48 GMT

Does STP Cat5 make good speaker cable?

At the moment I have £2.50 per meter of QED 25 strand copper cable but I need to buy some more so I can move everything about. Is it worth buying a load more of the above or is normal STP Cat5 network cable better?

I did see a box of QED (200 meter) STP cat5 cable for £110 – I am sure a good networking cable will be far cheaper…

Forum - AV - What LCD TV???

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:22:09 GMT

All being well one day soon i will be in the market for an HD LCD TV but if i could help it i don't want to spend that much.

Does anyone know of any good LCD TVs that would be worth looking at under 1k and that they would recommend?

Forum - Miscellaneous - World Community Grid

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:49:39 GMT

Put to good use spare CPU cycles!

World Community Grid

This is the best client for Linux and MS OS's
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

I have been running this over 2 years and have amassed over 10 years of CPU run-time. :)

Forum - Miscellaneous - a demo in 63.5 kb

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:47:00 GMT

How much graphics, sound and program code can be stored in 64kbytes?

.fr-08: .the .product

well worth a look!

Forum - Windows - Another MS own goal?

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:23:32 GMT

Have a look at this article on the INQ

Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift

I totally understand about the pain this creates for sys admins (being one myself) I have first hand experience of this and i have never and never will buy anything HP (in my opinion).

Forum - Tutorials Chat - Tutorial - Linux - Gentoo - HPOJ emerge fix

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:07:56 GMT

It fails for me, here is what I get:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5254, in ?
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5249, in emerge_main
myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4605, in action_build
mydepgraph.display(
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2472, in display
debug=self.edebug)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5711, in getfetchsizes
mf = Manifest(pkgdir, self.mysettings["DISTDIR"])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 121, in __init__
self._read()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 178, in _read
self._readManifest(self.getFullname(), myhashdict=self.fhashdict)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 166, in _readManifest
self._parseDigests(fd, myhashdict=myhashdict, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 200, in _parseDigests
for myentry in self._parseManifestLines(mylines):
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 190, in _parseManifestLines
myentry = parser(mysplit)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 49, in parseManifest2
mysize = int(mysplit[2])
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): -

Any help?

Tutorial - Javascript - How to convert the output format in Javascript

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:27:42 GMT

How to convert the output format in Javascript
Mini commend

If you want to format the output in Javascript, you must realize your codes by yourself because there are no related functions in Javascrip. These days, I got a set of functions written in Javascript to realize the data fo

Forum - Linux - Compile

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:02:55 GMT

Encase anybody needs to install from source code within Linux, you just need to follow the 3 main steps.

./configure
make
make install

this will configure the makefiles to be usable on your Linux setup, and also alarm to anything that is required, the make will make the source code into binary versions and the make install will install into the /usr directory structure (for example).

Forum - Miscellaneous - Laptop for sale ?

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:00:46 GMT

Now this is what you call an REAL laptop here, this bloke can only be said to have an real need for the desktop usage :).

Forum - (X)HTML/CSS - What you never thought possible!

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:22:33 GMT

Good site but you need IE to get the full benefit but will work in FF. Shows you what can be done in DHTLM etc

http://webfx.eae.net/

Forum - C#/Mono - Good tutorial on ASP.NET2

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:59:46 GMT

Here is an good tutorial on ASP.NET2.

Anybody get any other ones ?

Forum - Windows - Vista - Update ?

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:33:17 GMT

I think that I may update to Vista once it is about 6 months old on my normal Windows PC, of course for development reasons will probably get it for work to test things on etc... how about anyone else ?

Forum - Windows - IE6 and IE7 on the same Windows machine

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:26:06 GMT

One of Microsoft's blogs have commented on how to have IE6/7 on the same box. Using the virtual machine. url is here

Forum - K/Ubuntu - Searching for apt-get Packages on Ubuntu Linux

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:48:48 GMT

Searching for apt-get Packages on Ubuntu Linux

I have had problems installing the correct packages so I needed some way that will show me what packages are available.

shell> apt-cache search

Update your repository with apt-get update

And use apt-get install to download and install what you need.

Another reason why I like K/Ubuntu Linux.

Forum - Linux - Suse

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:40:48 GMT

hahahaha

Forum - Miscellaneous - Google reader

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:02:42 GMT

Not sure if anyone has tried this out, the google feed reader, Google Reader, but it is well cool.

Tutorial - C# / Mono - C++ DLL Objects accessed from C#

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:11:17 GMT

Because there is a few things that c# cannot do compared to c++, e.g. cpu/memory management. And also there is probably allot of dll’s out there are still required for some events, c# is able to communicate with these files and use there functions within the c# language.

To create an d

Forum - Linux - Pen drive Linux

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:46:30 GMT

Here is a very cool setup, it allows Linux to be used on an flash usb pen.

Prefect for an rescue of the OS, encase anything goes wrong.

There is setups for different linux distributions as well.

Tutorial - Javascript - On mouse events

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:45:15 GMT

Within javascript it is able to reference an HTML object so that if any "on" events happen, for example if an mouse hovers over the HTML object it is called onmouseover event and these events are capable of changing the webpage as well.

To create an process attached to an event, you can e

Forum - Linux - Problem – Root partition full

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:08:45 GMT

Something to bear in mind when using CRON and a remote backup device.

I had a cron job running on a RH AS4 server which ran a script that shutdown an Oracle database, TAR’ed it up and copied it over to a NAS device. The NAS device was setup in fstab and mounted correctly under /media/backup.

The problem occurred when a HDD failed in the NAS device and the device went into a suspended mode. The HDD was replaced and the mount points were mounted correctly on the Linux box, however CRON had TAR’ed up the database and was trying to send the data to the /media/backup mount point but as the device wasn’t mounted the data went into the dir /media/backup thus filling up the root partition.

Solution – umount /media/backup and remove the data then mount /media/backup as normal.

Something I learnt the other day.