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Jan/11

Stop Windows 7 Update Rebooting After Update

WARNING: Use this article at your own risk! Open the registry editor: Start Menu > Run Type in regedit and press OK button. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU On my machine stopped at Windows so I created new keys for WindowsUpdate and … Continue reading

12

Jan/11

Siemens Gigaset 685IP Mini Review

Overview The two cordless phones that we have were fine till we moved into a house. The two phones suddenly became too far from room to room. It was time again to look for a phone which was scalable and … Continue reading

09

Jan/11

dvd::rip Debugging (Warning: No libxvidcore API 4 found)

I had an issue with dvd::rip failing to transcode videos when using clusters but using the Transcode button worked fine. In the Cluster Control window everything was added fine but when the project started it failed at 0% on all … Continue reading

02

Jan/11

Mounting / Extracting .bin and .cue Files In Ubuntu

Install bchunk which will conert the bin and cue file to an iso sudo apt-get install bchunk Convert the files to iso using the following syntax: bchunk [image.bin] [image.cue] [output name] Where image.bin is the .bin file, image.cue is the … Continue reading

22

Dec/10

3 Mifi (Huawei E585) Mini Review

When I was barred from using data because I had gone over my “fair usage” on my mobile phone I decided to buy the Mifi from Three to get around the problem. The total cost of the package was £60 … Continue reading

17

Dec/10

fstab Options

A quick note on fstab mount options from How-To-Geek auto/noauto: Specify whether the partition should be automatically mounted on boot. You can block specific partitions from mounting at boot-up by using “noauto”. exec/noexec: Specifies whether the partition can execute binaries. … Continue reading

05

Dec/10

energy@home 0.5 Released

I’m excited to say a new release of energy@home have been released! The new version includes: Offline data storage – If it was unable to save the data to the database it will save it file and later re-insert the … Continue reading

03

Dec/10

Monitor Calibration Software

Check out Flat Panel HD‘s website and go to the “Test software” category to get colour patterns to calibrate your monitor. I found the patterns to be OK but you need Flash for the downloadable and interactive versions.