Swiss Food

Uncategorized | Posted by admin March 6th, 2013

It’s all potatoes and cheese ? :

FIXED : Windows Media Centre [Center] Aspect Ratio

Uncategorized | Posted by admin February 6th, 2012

I was cocking about with eyefinity and stuff when my Media Centre went 4:3 (1:3:1)

Try as I might I couldn’t work out how to get it back to 16:9 and couln’t find any settings

Turns out all you need to do is drag the window around resizing it till you get it to click back to the right size

guugh

[FIXED] Internet Explorer starts with voice help about clearing cookies

How To, Other peoples software | Posted by admin November 28th, 2011

I don’t use Internet Explorer much.

I’ve got Internet Explorer 9 installed on 64bit Windows 7

One day I fired it up and got some mad message from an American voice whittling on about how to clear the browsing cache. What the hell is this!
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Fun with Facebook ?fb_xd_fragment= [UPDATED]

Uncategorized | Posted by admin May 26th, 2011

Like most people, I’m not a fan of big megacorps making landgrab plays for great swathes of the internet, especially when they do it in a ham fisted way which breaks honest, hard working sites.

Sure it’s the job of an adopting sites testing department to make sure the site works. But the minute external dependencies are let straight onto the page all manner of fun can break loose.

Facebook comments currently has an amazingly fun problem in it, which to be honest, I don’t fully understand, and Facebook can pay me if they want me to look at it more.
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Location of the Android SDK has not been setup in the preferences

Uncategorized | Posted by admin May 8th, 2011

So you’ve spent some time installing Android into your Eclipse, and after it all you seem to get a message saying: Location of the Android SDK has not been setup in the preferences

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Widget

Uncategorized | Posted by admin May 5th, 2011

Router Settings lost when hard coding IP [FIXED]

Uncategorized | Posted by admin March 15th, 2011

This was a bit of a head scratcher. I don’t run DHCP on my home network because I use VNC to admin things from the main machine. This means keeping an IP list, which is easy.

After rebuilding a machine, whenever I set the TCP settings, the router IP would be lost. Everything else would retain ok, but the default gateway constantly reset itself to blank.
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ATI Radeon HD 5450 No Sound HDMI [FIXED]

Uncategorized | Posted by admin March 15th, 2011

The HTPC we run has been through a few incarnations, currently a quad core Q8300 it’s more than ample for streaming and DVD playing, piping music to the living room, etc etc.

The ATI Radeon HD is the second GPU to be plumbed into it after an AGP -> PCIe Motherboard type upgrade.
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Google Chrome & Broken CSS [FIXED]

Brain Purge, Other peoples software | Posted by admin August 27th, 2010

So, I like Google Chrome, less so now it’s started to go the same way as Firefox (MOAR FUNCTIONALITY!!!) but it’s pretty cool.

Like many Windows Users I run a Registry Cleaner / Temp File purger (think CCleaner) tool now and again. It always annoyed me that after running a clean, Chrome seemed to completely lose it’s head with breakages in Javascript and CSS.
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The Last Starfighter

Uncategorized | Posted by admin August 15th, 2010

Ah, The Last Starfighter was just on the TV. This is a great film, capturing the feeling of the 80′s that being cool at playing video games would really lead somewhere.
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