Posted on Wednesday 14 May 2008
To get a V+ set-top box remote doing volume and mute on a Hitachi 42PD9R10 (42″ plasma) follow the V+ instructions and use the remote code 0173
Posted on Saturday 5 April 2008
Someone recently gave me a Mac Mini (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger) and this is just as well because I’m in the process of reinstalling my main PC. I’ve hooked it up on the 2nd input to my main PC monitor and have an old Logitech wireless keyboard mouse connected.
Pretty soon after starting to use the Mac I noticed the keyboard layout was wrong - the @ and ” were swapped, something you usually see if using a US keyboard layout with a UK keyboard. Finally I found a useful post that shows how to fix this annoying issue. At first I didn’t want to believe this was the only option, so I scoured the Apple site for an “official” fix… nothing. Thanks to that post I’m fixed… but it is poor that Apple haven’t fixed their UK keyboard layout s in over 2 years!
Posted on Saturday 5 April 2008
Want to sort a list of IP addresses by octet number? Try this:
# sort -t. -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n