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Found this today, and its very useful indeeed.  I missed the ability to connect to the console session of a Winblows box from the mac versio...

http://www.HomeAutom8.com

http://forum.homeeasy.eu/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1258

I found it a bit annoying that all my hard work rating tracks in iTunes seemed to be wasted when playing said tracks from my iDJ2.  Yeah OK,...

Last night I decided to jailbreak both my new iPad and my iPhone. The process was very simple indeed using the Spirit Jailbreak from www.sp...

Its here! Finally! So I couldn't wait until Apple decided to grace us with the ipads presence and instead decided to get one early off...

I really enjoyed reading this agile white paper outlining the ins and outs of Iteration planning Iteration Planning Guide

It really gets my back up reading other peoples blogs where all they they do is regurgitate other peoples thoughts or research. Too may peo...

Assuming you are on baseband 05.11.07 and 3.1.2 you can use blackra1n to jailbreak. HOWEVER You will need to use blackra1n to boot your...

Users of Ubuntu > 9.04 get 2gb of free online storage with "Ubuntu One". Ubuntu One comes pre-integrated with version 9.10 and...

WINDOWS 7 USERS COMPLAIN OVER 'BLACK SCREEN OF BEING CONNED OUT OF TWO HUNDRED QUID'

To install Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1545 you need to switch the machine to use ATA instead of AHCI under System Configuration > Sata...

Fantastic! http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2075&Itemid=74

Thursday, our last day. We are pretty gutted really, as we have had a FANTASTIC time out here. New York is a hell of a place. The people ...

We took the tube up to Midtown and walked down Madison Avenue to find a place for lunch. We had a chicken Fajita "Pressata" in a ...

We took a walk along the rivers edge down town last night and got some fantastic views of the sunset over New Jersey. We also saw Fire Flie...

Had a good walk about town and hit Central Park again. We had a few slices of real American Pizza! Too tired to blog a lot now, however, h...

What a scorcher it has been today! 28 to be precise... Today we traveled over to Staten Island using the free 24 hour ferry. The views of...

All the NY photos on this blog are straight out of the camera.... I'll be fixing them and posting ALL our photos to Flickr in the coming...

After a FREE breakfast in the "Club" we had a chat with one of the doormen (New Yorkers are so friendly and helpful) & decide...

Morning, afternoon, evening, whatever it is :) We slept very well last night in our HUGE bed (seriously, I have never seen anything like i...

OK, so when we arrived at the Ritz in Battery Park they hadn't actually heard of us... Thanks BA! But the attitude of the reception sta...

So we finally touched-down at about 2pm NYC time. After waiting in line for about 40 minutes at passport control I got my first glance at a...

Hi! I'm typing this about 3 hours into the flight, but I'm not sure when I will be able to post it. Perhaps not until we get to the...

On the plane now waiting to take off..... Surrounded by loads of American people already! Managed to get extra leg room, so thats sweet! N...

I recently received an email from the Softpedia team informing me that River Drive had been added to their software database and fully te...

The Dell Mini 9 netbook with built-in 3G connectivity uses the Dell 5530 wireless card for connectivity. This card also has GPS functionali...

The Dell Mini 9 is a great little netbook with the advantage of having a hsdpa modem built in. Of course, this is all supported under Windo...

Microsoft's jump onto the cloud bandwagon is obviously following a typical Microsoft pattern...

You can tell its Friday; the team and I were discussing what theme parks would be like if they were modeled after popular operating systems....

I saw this, and realized how true it is! Take note all you "Business" people out there . . .

You have GOTTA laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/olympics_blue_screen_death/

After purchasing the Advent 4112 / MSI Wind, the first thing I had to do was get Ubuntu up and running. This was very straight forward usin...

I have just driven a three hour round trip to the only store in the south of England which has the Advent 4211 in stock. The Advent 4211 is ...

I have recently been playing with Amazon's Simple Storage Solution or "S3". The service provides users with unlimited, secure...

If you own an iPhone in the UK, chances are that you are on an unlimited data contract with a rather large mobile service provider. Why not...

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applica...

I was suffering from an ab-normally high %wa figure in top. Disabling memory page trimming in my VMWare guest seems to have solved the issu...

If you have a Netgear DG* router and wish to automatically reconnect / reboot when your connection drops, try adding this script to your cro...

I'm not the first to post this, but hey, the more the merrier.... If you want to try video calling on the eee, download the Xebian skype...

I just nipped down to the 3 shop and picked up a Huawei USB 3G modem. I literally popped it into the Eee and setup a new connection in ...

Its arrived! Finally the wait is over for me... I got my new white Asus Eee PC delivered this morning. If you are reading this; you will ha...

I have finally put up a page where I can post links to some of the utilities I have put together. www.tristanphillips.com Includes a number ...

Recently I have been developing some code that needed to calculate the checksum for a TCP packet before transmission. The TCP checksum is th...

After the recent deals made by a number of Linux vendors with M$ regarding patent threats, I am extremely glad to hear that Ubuntu (Canoni...

Novell's decision to do business with Microsoft is costing them lolly: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/novell_quarter_micosoft/

Its no secret amongst my friends, family and collogues that I am a fanatical Free software supporter and Linux user. Until now I have refra...

WebJam , a new Web 2.0 site looks pretty cool.... You can create your own page, add pre-built "modules" and allow others in your c...

I have recently been working on a remake of the Nintendo classic "Mario". The remake is written in C++ using the SDL library. SD...

Homesight Remote version 0.31 has been released. This release includes the previously omitted "Hasher" application for changing th...

Recently I was wondering about enumerating account names on a remote machine. This can be done with the 2 windows API functions LookupAccoun...

SSW's rules and standards seem to be pretty good . . . http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/Default.aspx

Recently I undertook the geek mission of getting Xgl working on my desktop at home. Xgl is the 3D accelerated xserver built on top of OpenG...

Homesight Remote v0.2 has been released to Sourceforge. This release adds full support for camera captured images. You can get the software ...

Following my last post I have release version 0.1 of Homesight Remote. The software allows you to view the last 20 events in your Homesight ...

The first thing I wanted to do after buying and installing my Motorola Homesight system was to gain remote access to the captured images an...

I have just seen this project on mini-itx.com. Well worth a mention: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/rundfunker/ Mini-ITX.com is a fantast...

Using the "hasher" utility you can: Create MD5 / SHA1 / Base 64 hashes for strings and files. Ensure files you have downloaded hav...

I recently got myself a nice new Philips x60 laptop. Being a huge fan of the penguin, the first thing I did was to shrink the windows partit...

I recently made the mistake of completing a project in the all new Visual Studio 2005. I was drawn in by the new controls and language featu...

If you want a Cygwin app (Apache or Webmin for example) to start when windows does, there is a useful tool that you should know about. ...

Add the STATS option below, the numeric being a percentage value. The following restore command will display a progress after each 1% of the...

Here is a cool tip; Opening unknown file types can sometimes be really annoying, especially if you just want to take a look at the contents ...

If you have ever wished that writing applications for Linux was a little easier, then your dreams just came true. Recently Novell have rel...

ASP.NET 2 or "Whidbey" will be released with the next version of the Microsoft .NET framework. It will be a major release includin...

Shaped forms are often used nowadays to increase the visual appeal of an application, when done correctly and combined with some good graphi...

A small number of laptop Linux users may find that their system hangs at boot-up during the "Checking for new hardware" stage. Th...

A feature of the windows console ftp client that not a lot of people know of is the ability to run a script. This can be really useful for ...

To ensure the collation order of a new SQL server install is "Latin1_General_Ci_AS" You must follow these steps; 1. Set your reg...

When creating a website which needs security for certain areas (or all areas) developers have always had a number of choices. One is to use ...

Ever wanted to print your documents from your Pocket PC via IR or Bluetooth? All you need is the HP PocketPC printing utility found at www...

nDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler. Documentation...

Had LOADS of trouble getting this to work on our site. We took the customer error page approach, creating a new page called redirect.htm and...