Ok I did this to kill 2 birds with one stone, firstly I wanted to do a vlog on something, anything and secondly a how-to to help people who ask me this anyhow. Enjoy…
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Author Archive for billythekid
The most recent additions to the site are…
A script that allows you to post to twitter from within mIRC.
A Blogshares Ideas helping script.
Tiny mIRC MP3 player.
Quick-Grab script that turns play messages/@find results into clickable grabs.
That lot keep you going for a while?
I’ve put the long elusive WP Stripper online, after hunting it down from Archive.org as I’d lost it on my own machine too!!!
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Uninstall colorzilla.
Open a terminal and enter:
apt-get install libxul-dev libstdc++5 gcc-4.1 libstdc++6
reinstall colorzilla
This informations was gained from this reply to the blog announcement. James Dunmore, the-kid.org salutes you!
btk
As part of my linux journey I’ve come across a few tweaks needed to set it up. Most recently - getting hyperlinks in thunderbird to open in firefox when you click them.
There are loads of long winded fixes for this around the net, most requiring some script or other to get it to work. I couldn’t follow most of it so here’s my fix… (Note I installed Firefox and Thunderbird from the Adept package manager…)
find your firefox installation - KMenu/System/Dolphin - press Ctrl and F - Named:
firefox
Look in:
/
- Click Find
work out what one from the results is your firefox program (it’ll be the biggest in size) - mine was
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox
Open Thunderbird and go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced and click the “Config Editor…” button. Right click in that list and Select New>String
For preference name put:
network.protocol-handler.app.http
For string value put the path to your firefox application:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox
Close the window, close the preferences window, Close thunderbird, reopen thunderbird and click a link in an email.
There, how easy was that and no scripts!
There’s a similar thing for opening mailto: links in firefox with thunderbird, find thunderbird app in the same way as you found firefox. Type
about:config
in the firefox address bar, click ok past the ‘dragon’ warning if required.
Right-click/new/string :
name -
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
value(in my case) -
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
btk
I just switched to Linux, I know it’s been a long time coming.
First problem I had was getting my Belkin F5D7050 wireless dongle to work. I got it working by doing the following…
find the .inf file in the CD that came with the dongle, mine was rt2500usb.inf so substitute that for whatever yours is (there’s a .sys file of the same name to check) open a console
type:
cd /path/to/your/cd/drivers/ sudo ndiswrapper -i rt2500usb.inf sudo ndiswraper -l sudo modprobe ndiswrapper sudo iwconfig wlan0 sudo ndiswrapper -m
Then I plugged in the dongle and it just worked! Took 2 days of searching around and trying stuff for that to work. Of course you need the ndiswrapper things installed, get them with adept.
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I’ve updated the BS Quiz script to include
- Coloured Messages
- On-top option
Also for some reason Rantz was having trouble with longer lines being cut off which I think is fixed too. I couldn’t replicate the problem so I think it may have been in his formatting of the questions???
I think I’m going to overhaul this script’s scoring mechanism soon after running a quiz in channel. More stats need to be generated!
btk
mIRC 6.32 has been out for a wee while now and it seems to be running along nicely. I’m loving the extended length handling for variables etc.
So yeah, upgrade NOW!
btk
I’ve updated btktext to fix a bug where if you type the last letter of a command it activated, e.g. if you had “brb:be right back” and just typed “b”, it would send “be right back”. Fixed. v1.2 now, ignore the version on the screenshot, visually, it’s not changed at all.
I’ve reset all the download counters to 0. There was some wrong information in them(googlebot hits etc.) so from now on they’ll hopefully be more accurate.