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Adalight, Arduino, Boblight, Ubuntu and XBMC
After seeing my friend build his own Ambilight-esque LED backlight for his TV, and him kindly giving me a spare set of LEDs to construct my own (he bought too many sets); I’ve gotta say… IT’S AWESOME: If you’re looking to build your own; its not immensely straightforward but if you know your way around…
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Automount software RAID array in Ubuntu
I’ve spent ages trying to get automounting of a RAID array to work; and after many failings I now have it working, so I figured now would be a good time to document the process. Now i’ll assume you have a working software RAID array (or a standard RAID Array) which you can manually mount.…
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ReSrc.it – Responsive images done right
The image you’re about to see is not residing on my server; it’s being served by ReSrc.it – a new cloud-based service which will actively deliver the optimum-sized image for your device. Don’t believe me? resize the browser window (so that the image size is reduced); reload the page and check out the source. you…
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Working with Twitter Bootstrap on OS X
After messing with some of Twitter’s Bootstrap files locally, I decided it was time to get a build environment established on my Mac. It quickly became apparent that there wasn’t a whole lot of guidance on setting up the build environment in OS X; so i’ve posted my efforts here so that someone in my…
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Ubuntu 11.10+ with RAID not booting after installing mdadm? read on…
Well after monkeying about with a busted 11.10 installation (call it a learning curve with Linux); I decided to reinstall the OS from fresh. I have 4x2TB drives utilising Ubuntu’s FakeRAID (software RAID), along with a 500Gb OS drive (the target for my refresh). TL;DR – solution to this problem is at bottom of this…
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Pistols at the ready…
Brilliant…
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Pragmatic Responsive Web Design
Following on from my last post; i’ve been doing some spleunking into ‘responsive design’ – the latest buzz term circling the web design / development camp. I’ve stumbled across a rather insightful slideshare presentation from Brian and Stephanie Rieger; they worked on browser.nokia.com at Breaking Development conference. For that project, they invented a new way…
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Foundation: Rapid prototyping framework
First off; I know it’s been a looong time since I last posted an update; suffice to say i’ve had a lot of things on in my life that have kept me preoccupied… but enough of my whining; i’m here to talk about a promising new framework I stumbled across called Foundation; its from the…
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Teaser Trailer – Transformers: The Dark of the Moon
Here’s the teaser trailer for the new Transformers movie : Dark of the Moon Now i’m going to go out on a limb here; but I think that Transformer on the ship is Alpha Trion…?
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been a while…
I’ve been not updating this blog (at all if i’m honest!)… this is primarily due to me shifting jobs and getting reoriented to their processes and systems. Now i’m back on the ball you’ll see frequent updates… Bomski