O2 charges for data roaming pro rata, doesn't really mention it to customers
- 13 January 2010
Like most sane people, and professional miserablists, I hate Christmas, so it was nice to escape to Elche in Spain to see my Uncle Tony and Kim who I’ve not really seen for fifteen years. A lot of catching up was done (as well as lots of wine drinking). To facilitate…
The new Macbook Pro keyboard
- 17 September 2009
It’s been a while, but this deserves shouting from the rooftops – the new 17” Macbook Pro has an alt key on the right hand side of the keyboard. Not that big news for most right handers, but it’s massive news if you’re a lefty. Previously all us cack handers (most creative…
Building a minimal Centos 5.2 Server on a Mac Mini
- 9 March 2009
With the RAOTL forum finally outgrowing it’s humble Mac Mini server (hosted with Mythic Beasts, who I cannot recommend enough – friendly, helpful and speedy with the tech support), I recently had to build a Linux server on a Dell Poweredge R300. The stuff I learnt during this ordeal I also…
Setanta Sports cancellation problems - an update
- 29 January 2009
A week or three ago, I posted about my problems trying to cancel Setanta Sports, and their subsequent unauthorised taking of an extra payment from my account. Following James’ (the customer ‘service’ manager) suggestion, I wrote them a second email, enclosing the first email I had sent in December. I also…
Setanta Sports cancellation problems
- 15 January 2009
Recently I decided to cancel Setanta Sports. Their coverage is at best crap, but the problems I had with them were more signal related – every time I had attempted to sit down and watch a game the signal had been awful. This reached tipping point when I tuned in…
On iPhone app store games
- 5 August 2008
There’s a brilliant line in This is Spinal Tap (amongst many), where they’re all being interviewed by Marty DiBergi, and he tells them of the review of Shark Sandwich. Marty informs them, much to their incredulity, that the review was ‘merely a two word review, which simply read “Shit Sandwich”’. If…
The Emperors New Clothes
- 16 July 2008
So that other long awaited 2.0 has arrived – iPhone 2.0 software update. And like the web version, it’s all a bit emperors new clothes. Eagerly awaiting this download, like thousands of other Mac zealots, I installed it, and set about grabbing apps like someone in a super market stockpiling for…
Building a mail server, and associated problems
- 12 July 2008
A few months back, the RAOTL forum moved to a new server, which is a dedicated Mac Mini, running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). We got the server from those nice folks at Mythic Beasts, who so far have been spot on in their support – I managed to completely…
Batman wallpaper for iPhone/iPod Touch
- 6 January 2008
Ever since I’ve had a mobile phone capable of displaying a logo, I’ve had a ‘Bat’ phone. So as Santa bought me an iPhone to replace my iTouch (more on that later), I decided to hunt a bit of wallpaper down. Alas most of the ones out there are gash,…
Gmail IMAP support
- 5 November 2007
A feature that I think many many people have been waiting for (except Kai) has finally arrived in Gmail: IMAP support. With the purchase and hacking of the iPod Touch I’ve now got the prospect of reading my mail across three different devices. All my other mail accounts are IMAP, which…
Upgrading Tiger to Leopard: Apache, MySQL, PHP and Virtual Hosts
- 1 November 2007
Having upgraded one machine to Leopard and seeing that it didn’t trash my hosts file, I got all cocky and thought that I’d upgrade my Mac Mini, which I was running as a development server. Because it took me a while to set up and get right, I was loath to…
Upgrading Tiger to Leopard
- 1 November 2007
After thinking about it for all of ten seconds, I purchased Leopard on Monday. At present I have three Macs, one of which is used as a server. I’ll post separately about upgrading that. I’d tried to put off the upgrade, as I knew that certain things that I hold dear…
Leopard and the puff of smoke
- 25 October 2007
On the eve of Leopard’s release, with it’s very own 300 (that is thankfully sans shouting Scottish bloke, unlike the shit film), one thing plagues me. (This is aside from the ‘is it worth the upgrade’ – I’ve already answered that and shelled out for it.) No, the question I have,…
Jailbreaking my iPod Touch, part three
- 16 October 2007
Not really a third part, but having documented my iPod Touch hacking (part one here and part two here), I got to thinking about why I would upgrade to a newer version of the Touch firmware. Apple is in a situation akin to Sony with it’s PSP. What drives people to…
Jailbreaking my iPod Touch, part two
- 16 October 2007
So as predicted, I tried again. In fact, I tried again almost as soon as I’d posted last night. As ever, when you try such complicated technical tomfoolery just before you want to go to bed, it fucked up. I was left with a half hacked half normal iPod. It…
