After installing LibreOffice Portable (from here), I tried to install the Google Docs Sync extension, ooo2gd. However, installation failed with the error message “Could not create java implementation loader”. There are many posts about this, most of which suggest either disabling, then re-enabling “Use a Java runtime environment” on the Tools > Options > LibreOffice [...]
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TF2 Connection Problems Persist
Team Fortress 2 has recently gone free to play, which I am guessing has resulted in a big spike in players (it is currently the most played game on Steam, with a peak of nearly 100 000 players today – no doubt it was busier at the weekend). As a result, my old post on [...]
Sort a List By Length and Alphabetically Using jQuery
A fairly common problem in jQuery is to sort a set of elements eg a list of <li>, and most examples I came across seemed to offer pretty decent solutions – provided you want to sort alphabetically. If you want to do this in a number of ways, then tinysort is a great way of [...]
Show Progress Bar During dd Copy
There are a number of ways of showing the progress of a dd copy. The easiest is sending the USER1 signal to the dd process, like: dd if=FILE1 of=FILE2 pkill -USER1 dd But that only gives a current status – eg 12345678 bytes transferred (11.77MB) … [8.56MB/s]. Not that helpful if you want an ongoing [...]
Polish Demotivational Posters
I have some images up on this blog, images that are sometimes linked to. I occasionally check out who is checking out what, and found out that one of the mosaics I generated a few years ago is being used in what appears to be a demotivational poster. You can see it at http://demotywatory.pl/2483873/Jestesmy-tym-wszystkim. Google [...]
Nostalgia is Playing Wipeout 2097 Again
Let me paint a picture for you. It’s 1996. Clinton is in power in the US and can do no wrong, while on this side of the pond John Major’s grip on power is weakening. One bright grey afternoon at my sister and brother-in-law’s flat my sister pointed out a new device on the floor [...]
Project Euler Problem 17
Check your spelling / letter counts. Seriously. Sixty is 5 letters long, not 6; a false friend numeral. Also, from the forums: look at the use of the word and. The examples are your friend.
Plain Sight Dedicated Server Crash Fix
Plain Sight was on sale for the staggeringly low £1.60 / £1.20, so I decided to get a copy. It is a very fun, fast-paced game, with lots of great moments – where you pull off an attack a split second before an opponent does the same, or when you detonate just as three people [...]
Fix for “Current Password No Longer Matches Keyring”
A I may have mentioned, I recently reinstalled Ubuntu (had been using Windows 7 for a few months). Since the reinstall I had changed my common login password for the other computers on the network so of course I updated my user password for the new install. The slight problem came when I used any [...]
An Old Video (FEAR – Stolen Kills)
I’ve been posting a fair number of videos to another blog for the folk I play games with (including the other MIA author of posts on this blog Kenny). It’s a good way to relive some moments and also a way for me to practice my cutting and splicing skills. Long story short, I encoded [...]
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