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I just found out that HFS+, the preferred file system for Mac OS X, is case-insensitive when it comes to files and directories.

You won’t find me writing about Windows too much on here I promise.

Having got my keyboard shortcut working to launch my batch file, next was to actually make it quit the emulator program when invoked.

For the last month, I’ve been teaching myself vim.

My search for an open source, Ubuntu alternative for EyeTV on OS X is nearly over.

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here is a quick run through of how to use Mplayer to view DVB channels.

Watching TV on my desktop.

A really frustrating issue I had when writing my project report, was that of dealing with source code formatting.

It was very frustrating installing a fresh Wordpress on my Mac and finding that the permalinks didn’t work.

This semester at University, I’m taking ‘Compiler Design & Techniques’ as a module.

I just bought a new Linksys router for my home network and wanted to set-up my Ubuntu Web Server with a static IP address so that I could port-forward a few things.

A very handy command to see the total size of a directory on a Unix-based computer. du -sh * This will show the total size of files and directories in your current working directory.

I’ve had a bit more time recently to play around with Ubuntu and am finding the ‘Ubuntu versions’ of apps that I’ve grown to love on Mac OS X.

Here’s a great Mac screen saver to get you in the Christmas spirit–LotsaSnow.

Fancy a change from the default prompt you get in your Terminal?

I’ve made a brand new spare PC that I’m hoping my parents can use in their spare room/study.

This howto assumes you’ve already followed my Building Apache 2.2 from source article.

Two reasons you might want to do this.

It’s finally here, my updated how-to on how to get Ubuntu Dapper up and running as a home web server.

It was very annoying to find out that the brand spanking new installer for Typo wasn’t going to install over rubygems.

Note: Didn’t have time to really write this article up - maybe some time I will - but I’m posting it here just in case it comes in handy for someone.

I’m now really loving Ant for compiling my Java projects together.

My group project at University now consists of three smaller projects that provide an overall RSS service.

Download the ‘Core’ .tar.gz version of Tomcat (as of this writing 5.5.15) from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi.

Mac menu-bar?

If your one of my regular readers (ha!)

At University, they’ve blocked ports for all IM applications, including IRC.

I reinstalled my home server today (well, I actually started yesterday, but today I finished from scratch again) and wrote down what I did.

Collections.sort() allows you to sort a Collections framework that is inherited from the List class.

I just finished setting up a spare PC I had with Ubuntu on it.

Coming from a PHP background, it’s always annoyed me that I can’t use something as simple as a foreach() loop in my C++/Java applications.