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Disable UAC in Vista

1. Run msconfig
2. Click on the Tools tab and scroll down till you find “Disable UAC”
3. Select and click the Launch button.
4. After the command window has finished, close it and msconfig.
5. Reboot

Compiling a custom Ubuntu Kernel

A very useful guide for building your own Kernel. As mentioned in the disclaimer it should only really be used for learning and bug testing. Grab the latest copy here:

git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid.git ubuntu-intrepid

Standard web video pixel dimensions

16:9 4:3
1920 x 1080 -
1280 x 720 -
720 x 405 -
640 x 360 640 x 480
560 x 315 560 x 420
480 x 270 480 x 360
400 x 225 400 x 300
320 x 180 320 x 240
240 x 135 240 x 180
160 x 90 160 x 120
- 120 x 90
- 100 x 75
80 x 45 80 x 60
- 60 x 45

Cue sheet // Fabriclive 40: Noisia

TITLE "Fabriclive 40: Noisia"
PERFORMER "Noisia"
FILE "noisia.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cannonball"
    PERFORMER "Phace"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00 
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Stompbox (Spor Remix)"
    PERFORMER "The Qemists"
    INDEX 01 00:44:00 
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Alive (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Phace"
    INDEX 01 01:28:00
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Anti Social"
    PERFORMER "The Upbeats"
    INDEX 01 02:34:00
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Splash Step"
    PERFORMER "Break"
   INDEX 01 05:10:00 
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Diplodocus (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 07:46:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Claret's March"
    PERFORMER "Spor"
    INDEX 01 10:19:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Head Knot (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 11:50:00
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Tide"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
   INDEX 01 13:30:00
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Nowhere (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Icicle"
     INDEX 01 15:55:00
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Feed"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 17:34:00
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Global (Dub) - Subtitles"
    PERFORMER "Sabre"
   INDEX 01 19:15:00 
  TRACK 13 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cold Champagne (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Phace"
    INDEX 01 20:55:00
  TRACK 14 AUDIO
    TITLE "Panic"
    PERFORMER "The Upbeats"
    INDEX 01 23:31:00
  TRACK 15 AUDIO
    TITLE "Infusion"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 24:40:00
  TRACK 16 AUDIO
    TITLE "Split The Atom (Instrumental)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
   INDEX 01 28:03:00 
  TRACK 17 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mordez Moi"
    PERFORMER "Spor"
    INDEX 01 32:52:00
  TRACK 18 AUDIO
    TITLE "Seven Stiches"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 35:45:00
  TRACK 19 AUDIO
    TITLE "Brown Time"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 40:43:00
  TRACK 20 AUDIO
    TITLE "Stigma (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 44:07:00
  TRACK 21 AUDIO
    TITLE "Alice (Noisia Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Moby"
    INDEX 01 46:55:00
  TRACK 22 AUDIO
    TITLE "Concussion"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 50:59:00
  TRACK 23 AUDIO
    TITLE "Facade (VIP)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 52:22:00
  TRACK 24 AUDIO
    TITLE "Medicine (Matrix Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Optical"
   INDEX 01 54:18:00 
  TRACK 25 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mudslide"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 56:03:00
  TRACK 26 AUDIO
    TITLE "Viperfish (VIP)"
    PERFORMER "Misanthrop"
    INDEX 01 59:17:00
  TRACK 27 AUDIO
    TITLE "Crank (Dub)"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 60:34:00
  TRACK 28 AUDIO
    TITLE "Creep Out"
    PERFORMER "The Upbeats"
    INDEX 01 62:30:00
  TRACK 29 AUDIO
    TITLE "Square Feet"
    PERFORMER "Noisia"
    INDEX 01 65:00:00

To www, or not to www

Which one to choose??

no-www.org
www.yes-www.org
www.www.extra-www.org

I’m in favour of dropping it, here’s my setup

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.phildawson\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://phildawson.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]