Charlie Harvey

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  • Flickr API and Grabbing Wedding Photos From A Group

    My lovely friends Danny and Jess got married recently. I took some photos and so did lots of other people. So we put them all in a flickr group. But they wanted to get hold of everyone's pics to print or whatever. Problem. For some reason flickr have seen fit to disable the API key for the one to …

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  • Video: Turning MP3s back into ones and zeros

    I’ve wanted to make some code to turn MP3s back into the ones and zeros from which they are made ever since reading Eben Moglen’s Anarchism Triumphant. In that Moglen says: A CD player is a good example[of a digital device]. Its primary input is a bitstream read from an optical …

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  • Config::General arrayrefs and HTML::FormFu

    I’m in the process of making a nicer backend for charlieharvey.org.uk using Catalyst (which is lovely BTW). One of the things I’m playing with is using HTML::FormFu for making the forms. But this morning I got proper stuck on the simple task of populating a select box with options fro …

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  • BarnCamp 2010

    BarnCamp 2010 was two days of workshops on topics ranging from renewable energy to foraging for food to citizen journalism to using free software for activism, three nights of camping, open space sessions, evening entertainment, great food at Highbury Farm, a beautiful farm co-op high in the Wye Va …

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  • Getting Chandler Hub to send a daily agenda by email

    I think that the OSAF's Chandler project is awesome and I’ve been using Chandler to organise my life for a while now. But one feature it was lacking was a daily email agenda update. Here's how I hacked one in perl. The code is at: The first thing was to be able to pick up some vaguely par …

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  • Dual Head on Debian Squeeze with nouveau and xrandr

    I recently got myself a 24-inch monitor. I wanted to keep using my trusty 17 inch as well - to use as a secondary monitor for system monitoring, playing music and other background tasks. There is a closed-source nvidia driver. But I’ll be using the open source nouveau driver (after trying with …

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  • Samba: IP Alias Servers On Debian

    Note: This post was written in 2008. It might or might not still work. I’ve not had time to test. YMMV!This is a mini-howto which shows one way to get round an annoying bug in mount.cifs that doesn't look like getting fixed any time soon.When using smbmount you can have …

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  • Gmail de-ad greasemonkey script

    NOTE Google changed the gmail API some time ago. I haven't been able to suss out how and they haven't documented it. So I’m no longer able to support this project. My apologies.This Greasemonkey script hides the right hand side ads on gmail and widens the email bit. You'll need to install …

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