Archive for the 'Info. Tech.' Category
Sunday, May 21st, 2023
A cheap MP3 player had some issues with an audio book with more than 100 files. The files had a single leading zero prefix as until recently there were no books on it with more than 100 files. The below code block renames the files.
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Saturday, April 26th, 2014
Restart printer to get it to a default state. Locate the * (asterisk) key, remember (or mark with a post it note – it;s inline with the “WiFi” text. Open the printer as if you were going to replace a toner cartridge. Press and hold the (*) until a menu appears, select the appropriate option […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Motorola Defy (MB525) – Telstra 3G Network. Android 2.2.2 with MotoBlur. Score: 1/5 – Buy an iPhone instead. This review is not going to be flattering to either Motorola or Android, as I find it difficult to know where the root cause of a problem lies (Android, or the specific implementation as delivered by Motorola) […]
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
How stupidly user unfriendly is the new Trusted settings in Office 2010, and how cryptic is the error message that pops up. Word experienced an error trying to open the file. Try these suggestions. *Check the file permissions for the document or drive *Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space. *Open the […]
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Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Recently I had the joy of a brand new hard disk developing bad sectors, this caused all sorts of issues, and once I’d worked out that the disk was having issues (a failed backup due to read errors, which lead to a chkdsk, which lead to a hurried purchase of a new HDD) I immediately […]
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Amazon have announced the kindle available in 6″ with WiFi and WiFi+3G models. Some of the key features of the Kindle 3 that may interest you is the higher contrast screen for that even more paper like visuals, even lighter and smaller than before, a new colour (graphite) which I personally find significantly more appealing. […]
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
If you get the following error on a 64 bit Windows 7 install the following may help you. Solution: (Version 1.0.400.5) This is what I did to get this tool installed: I ran the setup and again the box popped up saying “This installation requires a newer version of windows”. I did not click “OK”. […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The wonderful fun and games that is remote desktop can often cause headaches, not the least of which is how to send a CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence to the remote host that your connecting to. The magic key sequence is CTRL-ALT-END – this will enable you to send the remote host a control alt delete key sequence. […]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
The joys of starting nagios in hardy heron – after installing as per the ubuntu site – I was unable to access the Nagios webpage by accessing http://localhost/nagios2/ – it took a little while to work out what went wrong, the fix is really quite simple. Ensure that you include the? the following line in […]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Now with the common availability of wireless internet connection over 3G phone networks having a portable computer is now feasible for many people there seems to be a dearth of decent portable computers to suit my needs Things like the eeePC from ASUS seem almost ideal but there are a few issues with it ? […]
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