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Deleting files with very long names

09/01/2011 – 10:33

In Windows there is a maximum 255 character path name. You can create files and folders with longer paths but they will become inaccessible and undeletable. Sometimes this happens if you extract an archive containing long file/directory names. Actually it is a pretty good way to frame someone; just make them extract an archive with [...]

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Accuracy of clocks for timekeeping

31/12/2010 – 19:09

The MSF set clock I built earlier this year was using the AVR’s 16MHz crystal for timekeeping. It was fine during the warmer months but recently as temperatures fell it started to loose accuracy. By the late evening it could be as much as 30 seconds out, so I decided to add a new reference [...]

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Transfer Read It Later to Instapaper

28/12/2010 – 19:06

I decided to switch from ReadItLater.com to Instapaper and needed to move all my links over. There does not seem to be any way to do it so I made one. Simply run the following script, entering your personal data in the relevant places: curl -k “https://readitlaterlist.com/v2/get?username=[user]&password=[pass]&apikey=[key]&since=1245638446″ >ril.txt tr “{}” “\n ” <ril.txt >ril2.txt tr [...]

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Google does not check Street View removal requests

11/11/2010 – 17:06

All you need to submit a content removal request for images on Google Street View is an email address. The is no other validation, meaning you can remove anything you want to. Well, perhaps not anything… The Albert Hall might be going too far (unless you claim to be a person in the image) but [...]

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Miranda IM automatic update script

28/08/2010 – 18:45

Found a useful script to auto-update Miranda IM. They really should create an update system for it. I modified the script to work on my system and with newer releases in 7zip format. chdir /D update c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe http://code.google.com/p/miranda/downloads/list -O data.txt type data.txt|findstr /i unicode.7z 1> data1.txt del data.txt ren data1.txt data.txt c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe –force-html -c -i [...]

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Interesting article and debate on DNA identification probabilities

20/08/2010 – 16:19

Article and Slashdot discussion. Hopefully more people are now starting to wake up to the fallibility of DNA. Real life isn’t like CSI where they get a perfect sample and the computer flashes up a perfect match. In fact, CSI does that for fingerprints too… Shocking for a show supposedly based on science.

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George Osborne on social mobility

17/08/2010 – 19:46

I was surprised to hear Mr. Osborne talking about social mobility today, but then I realised what he meant. He doesn’t mean making things fairer for everyone and allowing us all to improve our lot, he means he wants to support entrepreneurs and the Thatcher dream. It’s our version of the American Dream™ – the [...]

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Windows 7 Tweaks

16/08/2010 – 20:34

Finally got around to installing Windows 7 on my main machine. As usual there are a lot of tweaks that need to be made. The Start Menu has some nice features but I really don’t like the way the All Programs section works now. Fortunately you can bring back the old cascaded menu and keep [...]

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Animal cruelty

10/08/2010 – 18:36

Someone attacked my cat. The put some black stuff around his ear and cut the whiskers on one side of his face down to about 1cm. I reported it to the RSPCA. I just hope it was some kids who will get bored soon. The thought that an adult would intentionally do something like that [...]

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Playstation Beatmania controller tested

01/08/2010 – 20:02

I got a Beatmania DJ turntable controller for the Playstation and it works perfectly with the Retro Adapter. It’s actually pretty simple; it emulates a digital pad. When the wheel is turned it just presses the up or down buttons on the d-pad. It doesn’t even use analogue for speed sensing etc.

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