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 libjawt.so To see if I could find where it is located…. Read more »
Posts By: jonny
Dynamic DNS to Raspberry Pi
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 dhcp with iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.51 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1… Read more »
Android Emulator: Getting Started
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 some versions of Android. Then from the menu bar choose Tools > Manage… Read more »
Recording Streaming Video with XVidCap
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 Player, 4OD, Portable North Pole (PNP). I used… Read more »
Digital AlphaServer 4100 (A1)
Still VMSy after all these years….
WordPress Bones: First Steps with CSS/less
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 the _base.less and _mixins.less files to set colours for links etc. After amending the… Read more »
FFmpeg Convert FLV to AVI
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
Updating Shop Channel on Soft Modded Wii
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 here: http://gwht.wikidot.com/wii-shop
Samsung TV Channel Editing
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 allows extracting the file to view the contents: I discovered… Read more »
Beginning Python on Ubuntu
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 Python path to python3 as shown… Read more »
