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Apr/13

Apache Error: Invalid method in request /x16/x03/x01

Filed Under Software, Web Server at 15th April 2013 0:01 by
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The error relates to the SSL certificates defined in one of the site configuration. In my case the certificates were missing from the server so the error appear on the webpage when any users tried to access the page.

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Apr/13

Enabling MPEG2 / VC1 Codec On Raspberry Pi XMBC

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 8th April 2013 0:01 by

Purchasing License Buy a license from Raspberry Pi site at http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ Before doing so you’ll need to get the serial number from the Raspberry Pi. This is NOT printed physically on the board. Power up RaspBMC and go to Settings … Continue reading →

01

Apr/13

Blank WordPress Homepage (index.php)

Filed Under WordPress at 1st April 2013 0:01 by

I’ve recently done a WordPress fresh install and found the front page on the site was not loading. There were no errors on the web server nor the blank page it loaded. It turned out it was the theme was … Continue reading →

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Mar/13

USB Not Booting At Startup

Filed Under Hardware at 18th March 2013 0:01 by

Intel’s newer chipssets, like Intel HM75 are now including fastboot as a feature which allows the system to bypass some of the POST checks to speed up start up times. One of the issues with this is it also bypasses … Continue reading →

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Mar/13

SimCity Won’t Start

Filed Under Games at 13th March 2013 20:45 by

I’ve been playing SimCity 2013 on EA Origin system and the game consistently starts fine (besides the server issues). Today suddenly the game won’t even start. Launching it from Origin a dialog box appears saying Launching SimCity… but disappears and … Continue reading →

04

Mar/13

Install Sun JDK On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Java, Linux at 4th March 2013 0:01 by

Overview Ubuntu had removed the latest version of Java from the repository and uses the OpenJDK instead. Whilst this is fine for personal use but for development purposes the development should be done against the runtime environment which is usually … Continue reading →

25

Feb/13

SATA And SATA 3 Speed Difference

Filed Under Hardware at 25th February 2013 0:01 by

A very quick test on a new SATA 3 labelled cable and a generic SATA labelled cable revealed interesting results. I used the same drive on the same SATA 3 port on the flawed Marvell powered X58 Intel chipset. The … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 2 – Setup And Install

Filed Under Infrastructure at 11th February 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 1 described the reasoning and setup behind the comparison. In this post I will go through the implementation of AWS and the final comparison of IaaS Vs. VPS Setup EC2 Setting up an EC2 and RDS instance was … Continue reading →