MAudio Audiophile - An ongoing saga

I'm not sure how long I've had this piece of kit, but damn it's been a nightmare. It's literally a matter of luck whether it works and I've always spent just long enough for me to hit a lucky setting or switch that seems to touch it's sweet spot.

I'm documenting what I've done incase anyone else out there is Googling away while pulling their hair out.

How to read your Oyster Card journey history

So as luck has it, I've answered myself while writing this post (one of the many advantages of writing I imagine) - I've left all the writing though because I want you to see what I meant. Post starts from here...

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Installing memcache on Ubuntu 10.04

Another Linux guide, simply because I had to use a mixture of guides to get memcache working for me.

Installing Wordpress 3 on Ubuntu 10 (Dirty)

After spending all day migrating stuff from server to server, finding that some servers were slower than others, trying out different server hosts etc etc, I thought I'd list what I've narrowed down to be the essential steps to setting up your own Wordpress website (as well as your own server based in London) - for only 7.44 a month. Bar. Gain.

The character who wasn't there

I use an app called Coda to write code - every so often (once a day perhaps), a sneaky invisible character appears in my code - specifically after the opening bracket of an "if" statement ( "if(...){" ) - which causes my code to break without any debug/error information at all. I usually have to manually scroll through the relevant code I was working on using the arrow keys until my claret (the cursor that appears when you type) appeared to "hit a wall" - as in it wouldn't scroll left or right even though I was pressing the key's alternatively.

I have no idea what this character is apart from that it's HEX code is "08" - and I've captured it here in between the letters "s" and "a":

sa

So from now on I can just search for this invisible character within my code when something isn't working - but thought it was worth writing about to see if anyone else has experienced an invisible character while coding before? An annoying time waster.

YouTube reloading on fullscreen

In the last month I've noticed that when I switch to fullscreen during a YouTube video - it has to rebuffer the whole thing again.

Anyway, I've found some more options that can be tweaked - Go to YouTube.com > "username" > Account > Playback settings - then switch to "I have a slow connection". You can manually switch to a high quality version of the video when watching it, but this option stops this from happening automatically.

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