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Introducing DR Ink

darkskye — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:46:01 +0000

DR Ink is the newest, and probably the greatest tattoo parlour to open in Mid Glamorgan.
Operating out of Llanharan, near Pontyclun, Doz offers you a choice of excellent designs or you can give him your own ideas or scribblings and apply ink to skin.

You can find the art at:
DR ink
7 the square
Llanharan
Pontyclun
Mid Glamorgan
01443 222995

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How to put WLM/MSN back in the system tray in Win 7.

darkskye — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:38:46 +0000

In short, set WLM/MSN to run in Vista compatibility mode (right click the short cut -> properties -> compatibility)

Thanks to My Digital Life for the heads up!

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FreeBSD + nut + Liebert Personal XT UPS = Success!

darkskye — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:03:54 +0000

the title says it all really …

the key to the success was removing “device uhid” from the kernel config file (or adding “nodevice uhid” if you’re including GENERIC by default). And on boot you should get something like:

ugen0: on uhub0

in the dmesg

The nut config (/usr/local/etc/nut/ups.conf) is nice and simple:[liebert] driver = usbhid-ups port = auto vendorid = 06da

After much (about 10 minutes) thought and deliberation on this, I decided to investigate an alternative approach, which was adding the UPS to the usbdevs and usb_quirks files so that uhid doesn’t need to be chopped out of the kernel.

diff -Naur usb.orig/usb_quirks.c usb/usb_quirks.c --- usb.orig/usb_quirks.c 2008-11-28 08:22:36.000000000 +0000 +++ usb/usb_quirks.c 2008-11-28 22:56:47.000000000 +0000 @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ ANY, { UQ_HID_IGNORE }}, { USB_VENDOR_APPLE, USB_PRODUCT_APPLE_IPHONE_3G, ANY, { UQ_HID_IGNORE }}, + { USB_VENDOR_LIEBERT, USB_PRODUCT_LIEBERT_POWERSURE_PXT, + ANY, { UQ_HID_IGNORE }},


  /* Devices which should be ignored by both ukbd and uhid */

  { USB_VENDOR_CYPRESS, USB_PRODUCT_CYPRESS_WISPY1A,

diff -Naur usb.orig/usbdevs usb/usbdevs

--- usb.orig/usbdevs    2008-11-28 08:22:54.000000000 +0000

+++ usb/usbdevs 2008-11-28 22:56:53.000000000 +0000

@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@

 vendor ASIAMD          0x06be  Asia Microelectronic Development

 vendor BIZLINK         0x06c4  Bizlink International

 vendor KEYSPAN         0x06cd  Keyspan / InnoSys Inc.

 vendor AASHIMA         0x06d6  Aashima Technology

+vendor LIEBERT      0x06da  Liebert

 vendor MULTITECH       0x06e0  MultiTech

 vendor ADS             0x06e1  ADS Technologies

@@ -1553,6 +1554,9 @@

 /* Lexmark products */

 product LEXMARK S2450          0x0009  Optra S 2450

+/* Liebert products */ +product LIEBERT POWERSURE_PXT 0xffff PowerSure Personal XT + /* Linksys products */ product LINKSYS MAUSB2 0x0105 Camedia MAUSB-2 product LINKSYS USB10TX1 0x200c USB10TX
And like all good little hackers, I have provided the changes to the maintainers, you can follow the progress of the pr here

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avatastic + mail forwarding = go!

darkskye — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:01:57 +0000

its been a long time in ~~development~~ ~~planning~~ the back of my mind, but the work has finally been done, and the experiments have been run ~~on the people who are still alive~~ to get mail forwarding up and running.
what this means is, when i get round to writing the front-end, avatastic users will be able to pick an alias, which will then be used to forward mail to the e-mail address they registered with.

the dry technical details of how it works are, as always, a trade secret.

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2007 Site Statisticalness

darkskye — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:44:31 +0000

Unique visitors    Number of visits    Pages    Hits       Bandwidth
1999                 4735                  12302    21053    329.63 MB
                       (2.36 visits/visitor)
                                                (2.59 Pages/Visit)
                                                            (4.44 Hits/Visit)
                                                                        (71.28 KB/Visit)

Browser Stats:
Firefox – 56.4 %
MS Internet Explorer – 34.4%

Stop using IE damnit!
<3 A.

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