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Automation's Selenium. When Open Source Exceeds the Paid Product

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Lauren's Secret Butter Chicken

Ingredients: 500G chicken Cumin seeds (Very small pinch) Black poppy seeds (very small pinch) 1 onion 6 garlic cloves Garam Masala (1 Table spoon) a big pinch of Fenugreeka (5 finger pinch) Salt to taste 1x can of tomato puree (standard can size) half a bottle of tomato passata (340gram) 1x Sour cream 300 ml Olive oil (enough to brown onions ,garlic, chicken) Sugar (1 Table spoon…

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To watch Pro Stopped Charging? Easy fix.

First things first, if you’ve already cleaned the charging contacts and pins (they tend to get sticky and stuck down after a while) you can try giving it a whack. Not that it will fix anything, but I hit mine for a while just because it’s 2020 and it had to be someone’s fault. After all that, you could check the charger by swapping it out for a known working one and see if that fixes it. If…

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#ticwatch pro

Quarantine Craft Time!

Alright kiddies, the cabin fever has set in and I’m starting to attempt random arts and crafts to cure what ails me! It turns out you can make a pretty darn smashing DIY fake tattoo at home without much effort. The hardest part is picking an image…

You’re going to need…

A printer that prints using toner

Acetone (100%) or some bad cologne. The acetone works way better, but in a pinch you might…

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Beerbrass App for Android

Well you’ve seen the BeerBrass app in the Google Play Store by now. I want to take a moment to mention that this was really only intended as a “Hello World” app that I threw together one night while waiting for someone. It turned out somewhat useful and went through a few iterations of various flavours and almost became a real app for BearBrass.

There’s still a chance it may become one, but…

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Fight Those Isolation Blues with a Simulated Dunny Roll Run to the Store...

Fight Those Isolation Blues with a Simulated Dunny Roll Run to the Store…

Stuck in isolation or socially distanced thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? Can’t get out, but on the verge of losing your shit if you don’t? I got you covered with Unity and a little C#

To ease the boredom of waiting for my next contract while stuck indoors I decided to give some VR development a shot in Unity. It turns out to be simpler than expected and with a little of this mobile VR magic…

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COVID-19 Wearable App to Help You Avoid Touching Your Face

So I made a COVID-19 Wearable App as I’m stuck at home, bored, and the virus is so fashionable right now…

Basically as long as your wrist remains away from your face, you get a nice happy message like the one below…

But the moment you move your hand up towards your face, it loses its shit vibrating and blinking a red error message telling you not to do it…

I’m not going to bother uploading…

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Joining Timing Belts for 3d Printers etc.

So you have a timing belt for a 3d printer or something and you need to create a loop or lengthen it. The first (untrue) thing I’ll say is the same thing everyone else on the internet says, “You shouldn’t join belts they have to be made the right size.” Right. Now that’s been said, if you should find yourself needing to do it anyway, here’s how I go about doing it.

What you need:

Small needle

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MadCatz R.A.T.7 Gaming Mouse Drivers for OSX

It seems MadCatz went bust and the only place you can get a working copy of the RAT7 mouse drivers that works on OSX Sierra etc. Is some company that will gladly sell you the download. Oooooor….

on my google drive here

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bda2-PFOkrGelcTqvc6z6yI-Y2_-iPSH

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Speeding Up the Ticwatch Pro 1 - more like Ticwatch Slow

Speeding Up the Ticwatch Pro 1 – more like Ticwatch Slow

So if you own a Ticwatch Pro, you’ve probably noticed that, while it has some awesome features, it’s slow as shit. Trying to navigate the menus feels like touchscreens did before the first iPhone release. Move your finger, then wait for the screen to catch up.

It turns out this is due to a serious lack of RAM that is so desperately needed and in the new Ticwatch Pro 2020 this has been…

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Adding USB-C to a Late Model 2011 Macbook Pro...sorta

Adding USB-C to a Late Model 2011 Macbook Pro…sorta

So I have this Macbook Pro 17 inch from 2011, you know…from when Apple seemed to give a shit about making well built and powerful laptops. It’s the same one I repaired the graphics card on by putting the motherboard in the oven on high, several times. Anyway, it’s an i7 with a nice big screen which is great for when I’m programming and still really beefy even when compared with modern Apple…

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COVID-19 Hue - The Morbid Status Updater

COVID-19 Hue – The Morbid Status Updater

It’s tough to find anything useful to do with the multicolor functions of the Phillips Hue lighting devices. Unless you’re the sort that’s still living at home with your parents and thinks blacklight a and whatnot are cool, you’re basically never going to change it from the white or yellow of a normal setting.

The best idea I can come up with so far to make use of these overpriced…

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The Unexplored Web You May Be Missing...

The Unexplored Web You May Be Missing…

Sometimes you find yourself sitting in front of the computer at a loss of what to do to entertain yourself. The entire knowledge of the world at your fingertips and you get stuck…nothing. It was in one of these moments, actually looking for some project to do with my newly finished 3d Printer when I ran out of sites to search. In a rather serendipitous moment, I realised that we are usually…

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So We Cracked the Archer VR1600v v2 Super User Password...

So We Cracked the Archer VR1600v v2 Super User Password…

Well the news is out, I won’t explain the method for reasons, but our code warriors have a new fight. After requesting the SU password, they were told flat out it doesn’t exist and referred to the manual by the vendor. Taking that argument to the telco ombudsman got the same response. If there were one and you wanted to change it for security reasons, it looks like you can’t and with the vendors…

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So I tore apart my Archer VR1600v

No big post. Because of the interest in reverse engineering these things I ripped mine apart and took some photos. So I’m sharing those here. That’s all

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Some More Fiddling with the Archer VR1600v

So I still haven’t got hold of a v2 device, but here you go. You may as well have all the interesting bits I found so you can try what I may have missed.

usb3g -password appears to be..

[email protected] password=CINGULAR1

This was a great find!…

telnetUsername=TPG@telnet telnetPassword=TPG@tp-link_2017

I have no idea why this keeps showing up….

I would never set something like this.

pa…

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Somerton Man Mystery on TV Again

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s the wrong damn code! Stop trying to crack the code incorrectly traced in by some editor from the media! Make sure you use a faithful source before you waste peoples time and terraflops on this thing.

The Commonly Accepted Code Picture

The Code from a letter to the CIB

Right next to where someone wrote OLA CODE The Description

The Code as Noted to…

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