Archive for August, 2009

Using SRT subtitle files on Popcorn hour

I was hav­ing lit­tle trou­ble get­ting .SRT file work­ing on Pop corn hour A-110. After some googling, I came across this page: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1060708 To enable SRT files sup­port you need the fol­low­ing steps. 1. Make sure the SRT file­name and the video name match (Except for the exten­sions obvi­ously) 2. Make sure they are in the […]

The 8 Bit Trip (AMAZING!)

Excel­lent video! Share on Facebook

Clearing Exim mail queue from all emails

Here is a lit­tle com­mand, if you have loads of emails stuck in exim queue and you want to delete ALL the emails, here is a lit­tle com­mand to do that mailq |awk ‘{print “exim –Mrm ” $3}‘|sh Be care­ful when using it, like I said, it will delete all emails wait­ing to be deliv­ered by exim. […]

True courage

What is the mean­ing of courage? Is it to fight a bull in a bull­fight? Is it to drive a for­mula 1 car? Is it to fly a fighter in com­bat? Is it to prac­tice free falling para­chut­ing? Is it bungee jump­ing, wild water raft­ing? Is it to gam­ble your salary on a coin toss? Is it […]

Beer! It’s the law!

The real Beer-Lambert Law From http://students.info.uaic.ro/~andrei.luca/blog/ Share on Facebook

Sir, can you step out of the car please.

Some­thing dif­fer­ent hap­pened to me on Fri­day. Hav­ing just arrived at home from work, I was still sit­ting in the car, wait­ing for the song on the radio to fin­ish and to make good use of the time I was col­lect­ing the park­ing receipts and other bits of paper scat­tered around the car. As I was […]

Starbucks

“Going to Star­bucks for cof­fee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough” — Adam Hills Share on Facebook

Prince 2

I’ve just received great news, I have passed my Prince 2 Prac­ti­tioner course. I am now a Cer­ti­fied Prince 2 (2009 Edi­tion) Voodoo Spe­cial­ist! Woot! Share on Facebook

No comment

I am going to start using Euronews no com­ment style posts here Here is the first one (From a friend of mine in Bel­gium) “Yes, she was dri­ving” Share on Facebook

A good oldie : The case of the 500 miles email

As I am tidy­ing up my home direc­tory, I found this old gem that I saved to keep me amused on a rainy day, the blog is as good place to pub­lish it as any. ——- Sub­ject: The case of the 500-mile email. Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:57:40 –0800 From: Trey Har­ris <trey.sage.org> To: 0xdeadbeef@petting-zoo.net […]