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Broken SATA port on SSD

Eager to try out my new Samsung 830 SSD I tried to take a few shortcuts while installing it. It didn't go well.

Due to the orientation of the hard drive cage in my case I need to remove the both side covers to install a hard drive. The ...

Updating google docs spreadsheet with POST request

Google spreadsheets has a nice ImportHtml function that can import data from a list or table within an html page retrieved using a standard GET request.

This is great for simple cases, but if the source data needs massaging or cannot be retrieved using a GET request then you'll ...

NVIDIA driver falling off the bus

NVIDIA driver falling off the bus

After purchasing some new hardware I was disappointed to find that my new machine would crash randomly every hour or so, seemingly more so while playing games. Something I was quite looking forward to doing.

Using Ubuntu 12.04 with an NVIDIA graphics card ...

LaTeX \includegraphics causes font rendering problems

LaTeX \includegraphics causes font rendering problems When using \includegraphics to add a png image to a LaTeX document the text following the image becomes bold and the rendering just looks wrong.

This turns out to be an issue with Adobe Reader not being able to handle the alpha channel of ...