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Affiliate Schemes, do they really work?

dave — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:55:24 +0000

Ok, so I haven’t written much on here lately, I have been way too busy. I still monitor the traffic quite often and although it’s not a brilliant blog, and the content is out of date, I still get a steady stream of traffic, thanks to google. So what’s this new post all about? Well inspired by [...]

HowTo: MythTV and the Nova TD-500 TV Card

dave — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:23:09 +0000

After using my Myth box for just playing media from my networkfor a long time, I eventually decided to take the plunge and get a TV card, and use MythTV for what it was built for. After doing my usual research routine I finally decided to go for the Happuage T-500 card. At first you may [...]

Netgear WG111 on Debian with NDISWrapper and WPA

dave — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:45:38 +0000

Over the weekend my trusty wireless switch / bridge (Netgear WGP606) gave up on me and decided not to feed my wireless network to its 4 port switch. I relied heavily on this as it supplied the internet to a small lan that I have set up in my office, and a MythTV box which [...]

Prevent Image Hot Linking on Zeus Web Servers

dave — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:00:48 +0000

A client asked me to do so work on their website to prevent people from hot linking their images, as they were using up most of their bandwidth allowance and had just been dealt a hefty bill, for extra bandwidth used. Straight away, I said no problem. 2-3 lines in your .htaccess file should do [...]

MythTV: How to build your own PVR

dave — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:29:40 +0000

Introduction About 12 months ago I stumbled across this fantastic open source project known as MythTV, whilst searching google for PVR/Media Centre based software that wasn’t Windows MCE. MythTV is a wonderful piece of DIY PVR software, if you have the patients and the know how to install it. My first MythTV build was really a test [...]

jQuery Thickbox on Ajax Generated Pages

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:40:01 +0000

The jQuery thickbox plugin is fantastic. All you have to do is include the js file, and give the elements that require a jQuery thickbox, a class of thickbox. Like below; <a class="thickbox" href="thickboxexample.php?height=600&width=600">jQuery Thickbox Example</a> The thickbox plugin then automically!! attaches its events to those elements. For ease of use this is great, but it has [...]

jQuery Thickbox not working in IE6 and above

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:55:40 +0000

I came across a problem with Thickbox today. It just wasn’t working properly in IE. Basically I had ajaxed content loading up inside a Thickbox. When the link was clicked, the Thickbox loaded but no content was displayed. All was fine in trusty old Firefox, so what was IE’s problem? After about an hour of searching [...]

Cannot find eth0 Device

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:40:06 +0000

It appears that my trusty debian based server died over the weekend, my motherboard would not do a post at all. After lots of trial and error swapping hardware in and out, I decided it was time to build a new one. Luckily for me I had some spare hardware waiting to be utilised. This [...]

PHP Frameworks - The tool for the job!

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:02:24 +0000

I have been wanting to get my hands dirty with a good PHP framework for some time, but I have never felt the need to use one for projects that I have worked on. For the last 9 months or so I have been working on quite a complex project, and decided it was time [...]

My First Blog

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:42:46 +0000

Welcome to my first post on my first blog!! I thought it was about time I jumped on the blogging scene as I was starting to feel like an old outdated developer! (more like an old fart!) In between my busy schedule, some how I am going to find the time to write some really [...]