Let firefox ignore ‘autocomplete=”off”‘ to save passwords

January 10th, 2012

I trust my install of Firefox so it’s annoying when it won’t save a password because the site suggests autocomplete="off"

Let firefox save these passwords anyway by adding this script to ignore autocomplete as a bookmark

Android usb device “no permissions” in Ubuntu

October 11th, 2011

In ubuntu, the normal user doesn’t have permissions to read/write the usb attached android phone. This results in errors like the following:

./platform-tools/adb devices
List of devices attached
????????????	no permissions

This article tells you how to you grant yourself permissions to access your phone: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html

Topical comic – resignations of Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates

July 18th, 2011

Topical comic - resignations of Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates

Whether to buy a kindle

May 30th, 2011

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After half an hour in Dixons I decided not to. It’s a good bit of kit for 111 quid but I don’t have any content I’d read on it. I buy books from charity shops

Cyanogenmod 7

April 12th, 2011

Thanks to the work by the cyanogenmod community, I’ve now got Android 2.3.3 (codename Gingerbread) running on my HTC Wildfire.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-7-0-released

York 10k – Sponsorship please

March 15th, 2011

I’m running the York 10k this year in July.  Sponsor me if you like, it’s for Macmillan Cancer Support

http://www.justgiving.com/2011-peteharris-10k

Extract files from nandroid backup

March 15th, 2011

The .img files are yaffs filesystem images, not currently readable in debian.

This blog tells you how to do it though,

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/29/extracting-files-from-a-nandroid-backup-using-unyaffs/

just svn checkout the code from here http://unyaffs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ and the compile it and run, simple!

Daleside Morocco ale

March 2nd, 2011

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Tasty rich, almost gingery flavour.

WordPress for android

February 15th, 2011

Now that Debian have caught up with WordPress a bit, I can use the android app to update via the API.

Stick Figure guide to AES encryption

February 14th, 2011

Just read this useful “stick figure” guide to AES encryption.  Reminds me how it works, it’s been years since the Cryptology module at Uni

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html