If you run into the problem where calling .load(url) on an element makes it turn blank, you very likely have an unexpected space (” “) in your url. You should re-examine it, it may be a trailing or leading space, which will make it difficult to see with the naked eye. Try calling the javscript…

It appears that Winamp 5.64 will crash when importing a media library that contains files whose names include accented characters. I would have filed a bug report, but I can’t be bothered to sign up for yet another account on the internet.

When your apache web server dies when starting with a message that goes something like “alarm clock” or SIGALARM, your solution is to get rid of the file: /var/run/httpd.pipe Strace helped to track this one down: [admin@theSuperStar] httpd # strace /usr/sbin/httpd open(“/var/run/httpd.pipe”, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) — SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @…

So a quick post here. If you want your Serviio instance to push 16-bit, 2 channel LPCM audio to your DLNA client or renderer, you need to configure your audio profile like this: <Audio targetContainer=”lpcm” aSamplerate=”48000″ aBitrate=”1620″> Basically, aBitrate=”1620″ for LPCM means 16 bit 2 channel. The default (as of this writing) appears to be…

Airtel is the current name of the estranged Second Mobile operator to launch its Network in Nigeria back in 2002. The Company started out as Econet, became Vee Networks, and then switched to V-Mobile before people could get accustomed to the new name and then settled on being owned and operated by Celtel for a…

The Samsung SyncMaster B2230 looks like a sensible 22″ Display, with a HDMI port for hooking up your PS3 or XBox 360 (my wishlist ) , and VGA + DVI ports that enable the device to also serve as a pretty functional computer monitor with a resolution of 1980×1080 (1080p in HD parlance). All the…

I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 10.10 today and was surprised to find out that bind refused to start. After a bit of investigation (without internet access because I decided not to fall back on a temporary nameserver), I found out the correct form the configuration file had to take. I still  don’t understand why…

I got tired of my ISP’s annoying DNS servers that redirect me to search results I don’t want, complete with advertising, every time I mistype a domain name in the browser. So I changed my nameservers to google’s public DNS. I even set up a simple caching nameserver on my system in a bid to…