billy.the-kid.org http://billy.the-kid.org mIRC scripts and other computery things Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:23:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en My first vlog http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/08/01/my-first-vlog http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/08/01/my-first-vlog#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:35:08 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=116 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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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/08/01/my-first-vlog/feed Recent Additions http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/28/recent-additions http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/28/recent-additions#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:45:15 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=111 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?

]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/28/recent-additions/feed WP Stripper http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/21/wp-stripper http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/21/wp-stripper#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:38:20 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=52 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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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/21/wp-stripper/feed Getting the ColorZilla eyedropper to work in (K)ubuntu Firefox3 http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/15/getting-the-colorzilla-eyedropper-to-work-in-kubuntu-firefox3 http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/15/getting-the-colorzilla-eyedropper-to-work-in-kubuntu-firefox3#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:18:42 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=51 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!

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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/15/getting-the-colorzilla-eyedropper-to-work-in-kubuntu-firefox3/feed Opening links from thuderbird in firefox http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/10/opening-links-from-thuderbird-in-firefox http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/10/opening-links-from-thuderbird-in-firefox#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:01:59 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=50 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

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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/10/opening-links-from-thuderbird-in-firefox/feed One for the “other computery things” http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/09/one-for-the-other-computery-things http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/09/one-for-the-other-computery-things#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:15:09 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=49 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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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/07/09/one-for-the-other-computery-things/feed Small update to BS Quiz http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/06/30/small-update-to-bs-quiz http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/06/30/small-update-to-bs-quiz#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:27:32 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=48 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!

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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/06/30/small-update-to-bs-quiz/feed mIRC 6.32 http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/mirc-632 http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/mirc-632#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 23:20:21 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=45 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!

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]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/mirc-632/feed Updates http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/updates http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/updates#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 19:31:49 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=44 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.

]]> http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/29/updates/feed Counters Reset http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/28/counters-reset http://billy.the-kid.org/2008/05/28/counters-reset#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 11:34:28 +0000 billythekid http://billy.the-kid.org/?p=40 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.

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