February 28, 2006
February 27, 2006
Serious issues with Sky by Broadband service
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Also, conveniently, all the uninstall information is currently unavailable on the Kontiki website External Link (typical). However, this process will uninstall Kontiki completely. However, I have found mention of an Add/Remove Programs entry and System Tray icons for Kontiki as standard - so it looks like Sky wanted to hide it as much as possible from users (there are two key files - KService is called Delivery Manager Service and KHost is called Delivery Manager).
1. Go to Services stop the KService service. I also set it to Disabled so that it couldn’t run.
2. In Regedit, navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
Delete the entry for kdx.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services
Delete the entry for KService.
4. Close Regedit and open Windows Explorer
5. Delete the folder KService from C:\Program Files\KService.
6. Delete the folder kdx from C:\windows\kdx.
7. Restart the PC.
February 24, 2006
Programming with Unicode on Win32
I’m slowly getting my head around the relationship between C++ wchar_t/wstrings and Unicode, and how it’s represented under windows - wchar_t on W2k+ is 16-bit but Unicode codes currently go up to 0×10FFFF, which requires 21 bits. (UCS-4/UTF-32 are fixed-width encodings that support this, which are apparently standard for wchar_t under Linux).
Does Microsoft’s wchar_t only support the BMP? If you look at the most extensive font (Arial Unicode MS on XP) in charmap.exe, the largest code it goes to is U+FFFD, but this is probably primarily a limitation of charmap or of the font.
I think MS wchar_t wide strings “support” full (more…)
February 23, 2006
February 16, 2006
Scheduling web-based scripts a la cron
Write a PHP page to kick off your script - WebCron will launch your PHP page at the scheduled times.
February 8, 2006
Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To
Upgrading your hard disk on a linux box
I tried the instructions on my debian box, and it worked fine. The following exceptions applied in my case:
- I used parted, instead of cfdisk to partition the drive.
- I used mkfs.ext3 to make a ext3 filesystem.
- I used method #1 (cp -ax / /new-disk) to copy the data
- My boot loader is grub, not LILO. I tried using grub-install with –root-directory=/new-disk (the new disk is mounted to /new-disk as per the main link above), and later the grub command line’s setup command. At first they didn’t work, but later (after dragging the server out of a cupboard and hooking up a monitor…) I realised that I’d forgotten to change /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the new root (hd0,0) and the new mount point for the root disk (my previous root was at (hd0,1), /dev/hda2).
February 4, 2006
BBC’s Interactive Snowboarding Guide
How to do ollys, 360s, etc etc - and pipe! Sport Academy
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This post left here to remind me of the switchover date!
SCUMM games!
Like Monkey island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, etc!
February 3, 2006
HOWTO Publish your linux hostname to your router’s DNS server
In short: add an entry like:
send host-name “myhostname”;
to /etc/dhclient.conf.
My Windows XP box, which uses DHCP to acquire an address, automagically has its hostname appear in the DNS table of my router. This is because it sends its hostname during the DHCP request. To get my linux (debian testing - etch) boxes to do this, I had to enable the sending of the hostname with the DHCP request. My DHCP client request is handled by dhclient, and is configured in /etc/dhclient.conf. The above entry enables “Option 12″, or “host name option” of RFC 2132 - DHCP Vendor Extensions.