For some reason this post has been nuked by my blog :(

I have not had a chance to fix it so, for now, here is the link to the latest version of iPlayer Grabber v2.

download iPlayer Grabber (OS X, Windows and Linux)

Please note that you will need Ruby installed (and to be on the safe side I would stick with 1.8.x for now). Ruby comes with OS X, so Mac users should be fine, on Linux you can grab it via your package manager. For windows I would suggest http://rubyinstaller.org/ 

Today I found a solution to a problem that pisses me off enough to want to solve.

I have some text file that is in a part of the file system such that windows deems it to require administrator rights to modify, but not to view, and I have opned it with notepade.exe and now cannot save it. Ideally I would be prompted to escalate my priviledges when I opened the file with notepad.exe or when I tried to save the file. That is not the case.

The solution (or at least my solution) is to add a short cut to notepad.exe to the Send To menu and tell the short cut to run as administrator.

The steps are:

1. Open Explorer and type "shell:sendto" in the address bar (without the quotes)
2. Click the Start button and search for "notepad" (again, without the quotes)
3. Drap the notepad icon to the explorer window that was opened in step 1
4. Right click the short cut to notepad, select the "shortcut" tab
5. click the "advanced button and check "Run as Administrator"
6. click "ok" on the dialogs to get rid of them, etc.

I got this error recently when I deployed a beta version of an asp.net 3.5 site to one of my dev servers

'Action' is not a member of 'System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm'.

After some head scatching it turned out that the dev server had not got .Net 3.5 SP1 installed, a quick download and it was soon sorted

I use Windows via Parallels a lot. I like to have the all the keys in windows mapped the same keys as the Mac (shift+2 should get me an @ sign etc.). When I set up my XP vm sometime ago I did find a Keyboard map that mostly worked and that was OK, but after hunting around I couldn't find it any more (or a different one that was decent and mapped all the keys I want to use), so I decided to make my own.

This actually turned out to be pretty easy using the The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator from within windows and Full Key Codes on the Mac.

The only slightly anoying thing is the hash key (#). In OS X alt+3 gets you there (on a UK Keyboard at least), in Windows I can't map the alt key so I have to use ctrl+alt+3. I can live with that. I have also tested this layout with a USB Apple Keyboad and it works 99% (the = key on the numeric keypad is not mapped, I honestly don't think I have ever used it, so again, I will live with that...).

Anyway this works in XP and Vista for sure, I would expect it to work in Windows Server 2003 and 2008 also. Windows 2000? MS say it will, suck it and see I guess.

If you think you might find it useful help yourself...

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MacBook Pro UK Keyboard layout for windows.zip (252.62 kb)