Recent content by oijonesey

Yeah a little bit but most of the time only to change disks and directories and run games!! I have found some not too scary looking sites with Linux for Beginners I might start to go through. I think at face value it struck me that when OS's had developed into things you could operate with the...

Yeah I had got onto it with Putty but once in I have absolutely no knowledge of what to type in unless I copy and paste it from somewhere so I kind of liked the idea of accessing a GUI from the laptop - after 25 odd years on Apple Macs and Windows I'm just a slave to icons but I have come to the...

Oh bugger I always fall for these! Usually cos I never read them on 1st April and hardly ever know what time of day it is let alone the date! Oh well glad to make it worth the effort of thinking it up by falling for it! :confused:

Re: Pondering how to detect advert breaks. This is based on an assumption that there is some sort of still image at the start and end of advert breaks (i.e. the station ID/Film name bit) - can we look for sections where the image doesn't change i.e. consecutive frames can be compared and the...

Ahhh zod off zmartarze :D:D

Has anyone tried running XBMC off a USB stick? I've read in my meanderings that you get much better performance? My challenge at the moment is that I first installed Raspbian which worked perfectly - no need for a wired connection at all it just used my wifi dongle from the off and worked...

Well that clears it up - first it says the OED has both z and s variants then at the end of that first section it says "In 2011 the University of Oxford website recommended the use of "s" rather than "z" spellings for its public relations material" Zo I shall rize to the challenge, and I will...

Could you just set up some extra gmail/outlook mail accounts and send your recommendations to those, then open up some dropbox accounts on those dummy emails and start inheriting your 500mb whenever you want?

What really grinds my s**t is spell checkers telling me that I've spelt recognise/specialise/summarise etc etc wrong and trying to get me to put a z in at the end - even when the dictionary is set to English. :mad:

You could try saying it's for a bedroom and the fan is too noisy? It'll be hard to prove the noise in a shop and not something you could have checked for before you bought it? Otherwise if you got it online you have 7 days to return it with no reason required (I think - I'm sure I read...

Why not ask Michael to change your title on your Post Avatar? He changed mine when I got a bit OCD about raising the position of the site in search results (a flattering surprise at the time!) - I'm sure he could do the same for the leading participants and then anyone reading any post from...

I did use the book me feature at the beginning but then got fed up trying to work out whether I was booking the SD or HD version, and then if I wanted to Series Link it I can't even remember if that was an option - probably was but IIRC the bit you needed to see never fitted in the on screen...

Not sure if anyone has posted any instructions for setting up a Pi but I stumbled on this http://lifehacker.com/5929913/build-a-xbmc-media-center-with-a-35-raspberry-pi?popular=true and it felt to a beginner like me to be a good guide with handy links off to where to buy, supported remotes etc

Oh really? Sorry I've not been around much recently - but it's comforting to see nothings changed :rolleyes:. I'm off to The Arms for a drink :confused:

http://rs.hummypkg.org.uk/ has just given me a "Connection Refused" message in IE9 and from behind the work firewall. It was working 10 minutes ago. Don't need it urgently but thought I'd mention it. If it's working for everyone else then maybe our Internet Police have finally tracked me down...