15

Feb

2013

Minecraft Black Screen on Ubuntu 12.10

February 15, 2013 jonny games, ubuntu

Having just purchased Minecraft I tried running it on Ubuntu but after logging in all I had was a black screen. Running the  file in a terminal (java -jar minecraft.jar) showed me the error message was to do with libjawt.so so I ran: locate... » More

03

Feb

2013

Dynamic DNS to Raspberry Pi

February 3, 2013 jonny linux, network, ubuntu

I now have my Raspberry Pi hanging off my router - just two cables - a USB cable to the USB port on the router for power and one ethernet cable. 1. Static IP Address I edited the file: /etc/network/interfaces replacing: iface eth0 inet... » More

25

Jan

2013

Android Emulator: Getting Started

January 25, 2013 jonny android

Like a virtual machine for running a version of Android,  the Android emulator is useful for testing. I used it to check how websites looked under Android. After installing the Android SDK run the ./android binary in the 'tools' directory and install... » More

23

Jan

2013

Recording Streaming Video with XVidCap

January 23, 2013 jonny open source, ubuntu

I wanted to record a streamed video on Ubuntu 12.10 from a web page that did not offer a download facility. This could be useful if you needed to record a video not offered for download, for example from websites such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, RTE... » More

18

Jan

2013

Digital AlphaServer 4100 (A1)

January 18, 2013 jonny unix

Still VMSy after all these years....

17

Jan

2013

WordPress Bones: First Steps with CSS/less

January 17, 2013 jonny web design

Note quite a tutorial but I have taken my first steps with the WordPress Bones theme. After downloading Bones I extracted bones into the ./wp-content/themes folder. To amend the CSS I edited the files in the ./library/less/ folder. Specifically I edited... » More

16

Jan

2013

FFmpeg Convert FLV to AVI

January 16, 2013 jonny linux, ubuntu

I was having difficulty converting an FLV file saved from iPlayer. The command to successfully convert the file was: ffmpeg -y -i input_video.flv -ar 22050 -b 2048k -f flv output_video.avi

08

Jan

2013

Updating Shop Channel on Soft Modded Wii

January 8, 2013 jonny games

I needed to update the Shop channel to download Netflix, LoveFilm and YouTube channels. After several failed attempts with old instructions for Shopping Channel v20 I obtained Shopping Channel v21 by following the instructions... » More

05

Jan

2013

Samsung TV Channel Editing

January 5, 2013 jonny linux, open source, ubuntu

I wanted to configure the channel numbers on my Samsung LE40C580 but using the remote control on the TV was a bit frustrating. I found that within the TV menu I could export/import the channel list to a USB drive. Changing the file extension to .zip... » More

28

Dec

2012

Beginning Python on Ubuntu

December 28, 2012 jonny python

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 but with Gnome Fallback session rather than Unity. I was testing out Python by creating a little program to notify if the input year was a leap year or not. I found Ninja IDE useful but had to Edit > Preferences and set the... » More