Jamie's Rants

rant verb (ranted, ranting) 1 intrans to talk in a loud, angry, pompous way. 2 tr & intr to declaim in a loud, pompous, self-important way. noun 1 loud, pompous, empty speech. 2 an angry tirade. ranter noun someone, especially a preacher, who rants. ranting noun, adj. rantingly adverb. ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Dutch ranten to rave.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

ext4 Driver for Windows 7

I've tried a few ext2/3/4 drivers for Windows and by far the best seems to be Ext2Fsd . The only thing to watch for is that you need to ...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Virgin Media Netgear VMDG280 Wireless Connection Problems

I was having very annoying wireless connection issues with Virgin's Netgear VMDG280. Most devices would be fine, but the odd one would c...

Monday, December 05, 2011

Time Lapse with ffmpeg

Because I do it too infrequently to remember, here's how to put together time lapse/stop motion/animation with ffmpeg. Firstly renumb...

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

eBay Dicks

hi there would you accept 260 cash? bearing in mind i can pay cash on collection you wouldnt have to pay ebay and paypal fees(ebay 10% final...

Friday, November 18, 2011

HTTP Headers to Disable Caching in Firefox

It took me ages to find this : Cache-control: no-cache Cache-control: no-store Pragma: no-cache Expires: 0 To alter headers in the IIS...

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

VSTOR30.exe has changed since it was initially published

Note that the following error can be caused by a missing internet connection stopping installation files downloading necessary installation ...

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Arch Linux on a Thinkpad X220

Some thoughts on Arch Linux on the X220: Adding i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 to you kernel boot options can result in considerable cooling and ...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Mount/Read VMWare vmdk Disks

You can try the VMWare-Mount utility, but an easier way is to use VMWare Player to "map" the disk in the Utilities menu in Machine...

Monday, October 17, 2011

UEFI Bootable Windows 7 USB Media

Instructions here: http://gitorious.org/tianocore_uefi_duet_builds/pages/Linux_Windows_BIOS_UEFI_boot_USB

Problems with the Thinkpad X220 and GPT, UEFI, MBR and Legacy BIOS Booting

After several days banging my head against a brick wall and suffering the indifference of Lenovo/IBM tech support I have learnt a lot about...

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