Suse Tips
Posted by Chris | Filed under Computing, Suse
I’ve been using Suse at work now for over a year. Once in a while I’ll find a shortcut or a handy little thing that I’ll find useful. This blog post outlines a few of the handy shortcuts and tips that I’ve picked up and never readily knew.
Tags: command line, desktop, Linux, scrollbars, Suse, tips, workspace switcher
Duckworthing
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
Well it’s finally happened, the pair of glasses I’ve had for going on four or five years now has finally given up.
This morning when I arrived at work and sat at my desk I did what I usually do. I took my glasses off and gave them a clean on my shirt. Usually I just put them back on and get to the nitty-gritty, usually sitting sifting through emails to find out if any of the spam is actually useful.
Today, however was a different story indeed, as soon as I placed the glasses on my face I felt a ping and then everything went blurry. I thought that the screw holding the lens into my frames had pinged out again, yes it’s happened before, but alas no! No, the actual frame had broken right at the point where the rim meets the legs, leaving a jagged edge and a confounded Chris.
Tags: broken, Duckworthing, glasses, Jack Duckworth
Adding non-Apple format movies to iTunes
Posted by Chris | Filed under Mac OS X
I’ve been having a bit of trouble adding some movies to my iTunes library this evening - in that I’d have to convert a movie to a .mov file in order to import it at all.
A few google searches away and I’d found the answer to all my problems. If you have the Apple development tools installed (and are obviously on a Mac), you can simply change the file meta-data of the movies via the terminal in order to allow you to import them. It’s very simple to do:
SetFile -t "MooV" movie.avi
Via: AVI to iTunes on MacRumors Forums
I did, however, have to change the iTunes settings so that it didn’t take it’s own copy of the files when importing them. I have a separate Movies folder for a reason thank-you-very-much iTunes.
- Chris
Tags: apple, iTunes, Mac, Mac OS X, movie, SetFile
R.I.P. PB
Posted by Chris | Filed under Computing, Mac OS X
As per my previous post, I’m getting a new machine. This is due however, to some unfortunate news: my PowerBook is dead!
Tags: apple, dead, hardware, HDD, PowerBook, RIP, SMART failure
Good Sauce
Posted by Chris | Filed under Photoblog, Recipies
I’ve not much food in the house today and since it’s not long until payday I’m rather poor, so I decided to make whatever I could based on what I had lying around. It turned out to be a masterpiece if I do say so myself.
Tags: basil, chicken, cooking, courgette, food, garlic, mushroom, olive oil, onion, oregano, pasta, sauce, tomatoes
Mac Pro
Posted by Chris | Filed under Computing, Mac OS X
I’ve recently ordered a new Mac, a Mac Pro to be precise. It is currently en route to my gleeful embrace from Apple.
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Tags: apple, Mac, Mac Pro, mighty mouse, nvidia geforce, xeon
You absolute beauty
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
The local football team in Dumfries, Queen of the South, has made club history by beating Aberdeen 4-3 in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup at Hampden today.
They’ll be in the final of the Scottish Cup on the 24th May playing either St Johnstone, Rangers or Partick Thistle.
Tags: Aberdeen, Dumfries, football, QOS, Scottish Cup, semi-final
Most Popular Stories Now
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
Isn’t there something quite ironic about this?
Tags: BBC, email, ironic, top read
Switching to Dreamhost
Posted by Chris | Filed under Blogging, General
I’m currently in the midst of switching my site hosting over to Dreamhost and you may see some disruption in this or some other sites I host. It’ll probably last about a week due to myself getting bored transferring all the files/databases and playing World of Warcraft instead.
Just a note to say, if you are ever in need of a virtual machine with very configurable settings or the need to install certain software on it, Bytemark is a good choice - just a little more than I currently need (and more pricey as well).
- Chris
Tags: bytemark, Dreamhost, hosting
If I were confectionery I would be a Dib Dab…
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
… because they fucking rule!
Tags: confectionery, Dib Dab
