Can you control you TV volume from your Astro B.yond remote control? I could turn on/off my TV using my Astro remote, but the volume needed a few extra steps to get working. Make sure you can turn on/off your TV from your Astro remote. Follow my guide if you can’t. Make sure your Astro decoder volume is full and your TV volume is low. Press the OK and Vol+(volume up) button together until the indicator blinks twice....
Feedly recently removed its minibar option and it’s been a pain adding new feeds since. My work around is to use Google’s “[RSS Subscription Extension][1]” and manually add the feeds in. Install the extension. Browse to your site of choice. If the extension finds a valid RSS feed an icon will show up in your URL bar, click on it. Select the “manage” option from the dropdown and “add”. Give it a name and use the URL below....
Today I stumbled onto Window’s secret “god mode”. Well, it’s basically a special folder containing all system settings. Create a new folder and call it “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”. The folder icon will change to the control panel icon if it worked. Open the folder and enjoy your new god like windows power 😀 The code: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Had to get collectd going on a CentOS 5.8 environment today. The EPEL repo was needed to get the packages. Here’s how to add the EPEL repo to CentOS 5.x cd /tmp wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
I spend a lot of time working with ssh terminals over very slow connections. One common issue that crops up often is unresponsive terminals. Closing the terminal is what most of us would go with but then you would have to go through the login workflow again. If you had to login to 3 servers then redoing that every time would be a pain. Here’s a quick tip. The next time your ssh session becomes unresponsive, hit “ENTER” , followed the “~” key and finally the “....