2010

Tuesday 19.10.2010

BBC iPlayer greasemonkey script update v2.0

19th October 2010 – 2:48 am
2:48 am

I’ve taken the liberty to rewrite the greasemonkey script to handle the new iPlayer layout. I’ve taken a different approach to this by injecting a stylesheet inline and toggling it on. Various videos did not have the ‘Pop-out’ player option, so I’ve added a button to enable/disable this feature in the top-right TV favourites panel. [...]

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Wednesday 23.06.2010

Using svn+ssh in TortoiseSVN over a custom port

23rd June 2010 – 8:21 pm
8:21 pm

Just discovered this – to connect to subversion over a SSH tunnel that’s not on the usual port 22, you need to save a PuTTY session using the custom port, and refer to the session name in place of the hostsname in TortoiseSVN. It seems whilst TortoiseSVN accepts the usual svn+ssh://myhost/repository/path URI (and even the [...]

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Thursday 21.01.2010

Cultural observations

21st January 2010 – 10:04 am
10:04 am

Found this quote in a comment in Engadget: psmisc Posted Jan 20th 2010 1:39AM @Abe I was in China a few years back, and I was surprised at how well people dressed. In fact, demand for name brand clothes were so high that they cost more in China than in North America, even though a lot [...]

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