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.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Flickr authorisation URL doesn't work on certain browser components

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Writing a Flickr app for Windows Phone I was confused as to why the authorisation URL was forwarding the user to http://m.flickr.com inste...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Manually Fixing Multiple Screens with Different DPIs in Linux

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Step 1: Set the system wide DPI to a comfortable level for your highest resolution screen, using X Resources . There is a DPI calculator ...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

How not to Transfer Your Domains Between Registrars

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UPDATE IV - Dec 2018 - Four years on from my original debacle I've given Gandi another shot. The main reason being that I've bought...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Recommended Apps for Windows Phone 8

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True Calendar 8 The native WP8 calendar sucks, it defaults to viewing one day, but doesn't fit it onto one screen, it doesn't hav...
Saturday, January 04, 2014

Script to set Firefox zoom/dpi/devPixelsPerPx on the command line

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#!/bin/bash PREF=~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default*/prefs.js BAK="$PREF.bak" SETTING="layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" CURR=$(gr...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Sexism at theregister.co.uk

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I think it's fair to say that The Register has always been the red top of tech publishing, I haven't minded in the past, I'm ...
Monday, September 30, 2013

(Almost) Passive Cooling an Acer Aspire Revo R3600 Intel Atom 330

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After I removed the fan of my Revo R3600 in order to change the hard drive it became incredibly noisy, sounding a bit like a motorbike. Gi...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Truth About Film and Airport X-Ray Machines

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When I went to Africa recently on honeymoon , I took with me my new bride, and a load of film . I was a bit concerned about the effects of ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Giving up Google

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For a while now I've been mulling over quitting Google. I started to think about trying out Yahoo Mail for its tabbed interface, which...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah

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[This article was originally published by Oliver Hotham at http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/its-great-when-youre-straight-yeah/...
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