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Feb/10

O2 iPhone Tariff To Simplicity Settings

Changing from iPhone tarriff to Simplicity requires changes to the APN settings which govern the data and MMS settings. Change all idata.o2.co.uk username to mobile.o2.co.uk. MMS, change idata.o2.co.uk to wap.o2.co.uk. Data Settings for Pay & Go and Pay Monthly (non … Continue reading

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Feb/10

WordPress 2.9.2

Minor update to WordPress.

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Feb/10

GNC 551 Alternate Podcatcher

Yes another email on Geek News Central Podcast around 1 hour 12 minutes. Episode 551

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Feb/10

Mount ISO File In Linux

A neat trick in Linux is the ability to mount an .iso file as if it was a CDROM. The command to do this is: sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/danny/filename.iso /media/cdrom where “/home/danny/filename.iso” is the path to the … Continue reading

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Feb/10

NFS Server

Overview Network File Share (NFS) is a protocol for sharing storage. It is quite common in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and is a standard compared to Samba which is Microsoft specific but has been ported to Linux. Install NFS … Continue reading

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Feb/10

Change MAC Address In Windows

It is possible to spoof the MAC address in Windows without going into the registry. The network will go down during this process so it’s best to stop or wait till all downloads or any other network related activity has … Continue reading

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Feb/10

MediaTomb DLNA To Playstation 3

Overview I found the Video plugin for MythTV 0.21 to be inadequate for streaming to the Sony Playstation 3. It didn’t update fast enough when you dropped a video into the UPnP directory and also there was no external way … Continue reading

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Feb/10

energy@home 0.4

I have just published version 0.4 of energy@home. It includes Twitter integration and a new graph which shows how much energy was used for each hour of the day. energy@home project page