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Hannent.blog: June 2014

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The living wage failure. There has been growing talk of paying a living wage: http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27981975. The concept irks me, businesses voluntarily paying good wages is like businesses volunteering to pay tax. Many millionaires have stated they don't mind paying more tax, just they don't want to pay more then their peers. The living wage is the same problem, you've either got to make it the national minimum wage or not bother. Posted by Philip Hannent.

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Hannent.blog: November 2013

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013. KDE and the Windows key. By default the KDE Application launcher doesn't have its pop-up mapped to the windows key like Windows or Gnome does. This was a a constant pain because I am so used to just hitting that key. I understand that KDE wanted to use the key as a modifier like the CTRL and ALT keys but I already have those two modifiers. So I found this:. Http:/ unix.stackexchange.com/questions/970/how-to-associate-the-fedora-start-menu-with-the-windows-keyboard. Linux on ...

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This is my homepage, it's a playground for my programming. Current I am focusing on my Masters in IT. The best productivity advice: Eat that frog. The main problem with living on a sphere? If you don't change direction once in a while, you always wind up right back where you started. Buildbot - Continuous integration. Projects and related websites:. Younger brother's personal site. Younger brother's business site. A simple raytracer created by a friend. Personal favourite instant messenger.

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Hannent.blog: IDE's and speed

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Sunday, December 29, 2013. I am a big fan of the the command line and keyboard shortcuts, however the one thing I've never managed to do it move away from a graphical development environment. Eclipse. Visual Studio, Notepad. And in the last few years QtCreator. Editors like vi and Emacs. Always seemed non-intuitive to me, holding legacy with keyboard sequences such as :w! Always grated at me. I've found some cool syntax highlighting. Posted by Philip Hannent. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Hannent.blog: The living wage failure

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The living wage failure. There has been growing talk of paying a living wage: http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27981975. The concept irks me, businesses voluntarily paying good wages is like businesses volunteering to pay tax. Many millionaires have stated they don't mind paying more tax, just they don't want to pay more then their peers. The living wage is the same problem, you've either got to make it the national minimum wage or not bother. Posted by Philip Hannent. 3) Mos...

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Hannent.blog: April 2014

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Saturday, April 12, 2014. Further to my earlier post on this, I tried setting up a udev rule so I created the following in /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hid-wakeup-enable.rules. SUBSYSTEM= "usb", ATTRS{idVendor}= "1a40", ATTRS{idProduct}= "0101" RUN ="/bin/sh -c 'echo enabled /sys$env{DEVPATH}/././power/wakeup'". SUBSYSTEM= "usb", ATTRS{idVendor}= "8087", ATTRS{idProduct}= "0024" RUN ="/bin/sh -c 'echo enabled /sys$env{DEVPATH}/././power/wakeup'". Ok, so who was the odd one out:. Posted by Philip Hannent. Subscri...

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Hannent.blog: January 2014

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Monday, January 20, 2014. Windows Server and the Task Scheduler Error Code 0x3. Wow, so again this is me documenting a problem I've had. Recently I was asked to diagnose a problem with a Windows Server 2008 on which its scheduled tasks were failing with the helpful error 0x3. So what does 0x3 mean? Well according to Microsoft it means. The system cannot find the path specified.". 1, Can I run the task manually? 2, Can I run the task in the "Only if user is logged on" mode. Posted by Philip Hannent.

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Hannent.blog: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so in Chromium or Chrome

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Sunday, June 23, 2013. Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau nvidia.so in Chromium or Chrome. This morning I finally set down to figure out something that has been bugging me for nearly a year. Using Chromium on my ubuntu PC I would get a long pause when starting Chromium before a webpage would show, then after about 3 minutes the browser would work and continue as normal. For ages I thought it was this error:. Turns out Chromium is trying to load a video driver for a graphics card I replaced nearly a ye...

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Hannent.blog: HTTP User agent string

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Saturday, August 02, 2014. HTTP User agent string. When designing web pages we have to be careful of various browsers different ways of interpreting the specification. Traditionally developers read the HTTP USER AGENT when the user connects to the server and then send that user content that matches the browsers ability to display. Over the years things have gotten better, Internet Explorer is moving to be standards compliant and thats a good thing. Posted by Philip Hannent. View my complete profile.

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Hannent.blog: December 2013

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Sunday, December 29, 2013. I am a big fan of the the command line and keyboard shortcuts, however the one thing I've never managed to do it move away from a graphical development environment. Eclipse. Visual Studio, Notepad. And in the last few years QtCreator. Editors like vi and Emacs. Always seemed non-intuitive to me, holding legacy with keyboard sequences such as :w! Always grated at me. I've found some cool syntax highlighting. Posted by Philip Hannent. Saturday, December 07, 2013. It means I can q...