Hot chocolate fondant

5713
16 years
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Ingredients

2 servings

  • 50g unsalted butter, plus extra to grease
  • 2 tsp cocoa powder, to dust
  • 50g good quality bitter chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids), in pieces
  • 1 free range egg
  • 1 free range egg yolk
  • 60g caster sugar
  • 50g plain flour
  • icing sugar to dust
  • vanilla ice cream to serve

Method

Preheat oven to 160°C/Gas 2.

Butter two large ramekins, about 7.5cm in diameter, then dust liberally with cocoa, shaking out any excess.

Slowly melt the chocolate and butter in a small bowl set over a pan of hot water, then take off the heat and stir until smooth. Leave to cool for 10 minutes.

Using an electric whisk, whisk the whole egg, egg yolk and sugar together until pale and thick, then incorporate the chocolate mixture. Sift the flour over the mixture and gently fold in, using a large metal spoon. Divide between the ramekins and bake for 12 minutes.

Turn the chocolate fondants out on to warmed plates. Dust the tops with icing sugar and serve with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx creating VPN tunnel to Windows server

920
16 years
by in Linux, Tips

Creating a VPN server on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is relatively easy but unless the correct advanced settings are properly configured you will probably get connection failed every time.

  • To create a VPN, click on the network icon (top right near volume controls and mail).
  • VPN Connections option
  • Configure VPN
  • Add
    • Enter the VPN details as normal and check you password is correct
  • Using the advanced menu
    • Select (on) Use Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE)
    • Uncheck EAP (will be automatically unchecked when you tick the Use point-to-point.

Ok and save all of that and just select the VPN just created and hopefully that will connect successfully.

Turn on auto admin logon on virtual machines

1320
16 years
by in Tips, Virtual Box, Windows

I have never been a fan of auto logon instead of security but on virtual machines protected by a front end password it seems to make sense.

To Activate auto logon on Windows XP after enabling multiple accounts use regedt32 to navigate the registry to the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Set or create the string keys
DefaultUserName to the desired user name
Set or create the DWORD key
AutoAdminLogon to the value 1

Low Fat Tofu Cheese Cake

700
16 years
by in Cooking

Ingredients

4/6 servings

  • 9oz digestive biscuits crushed
  • 5oz margarine melted
  • 1 level tsp agar flakes
  • 7oz plain chocolate
  • 1 tbsp golden syrup
  • 8oz tofu (silken tofu works best)

Method

Mix biscuits and margarine. Put in grease proof cake tin and pat down firmly.

Make the agar flakes up with half pint water.

Melt chocolate and blend with golden syrup and tofu. Blend in the agar mixture and pour on top of biscuit base.

Chill for 2 hours.

Get music on i-pad

51
16 years
by in iPad and mobile devices

The I-pad and corresponding Iphone are meant to be easy to use devices for any one to use but just like any technology there are always some gotchas.

Unfortunately I am using itunes to do this. Install itunes and start it.

Plug in to fully functional USB socket. Some usb hubs don’t pass all signals along and therefore the device may not be properly recognised.

Once the device is recognised select it from the devices selection and ensure synchronisation of the device. Go to the tab music and enable synchronisation of music. I prefer to select the albums or gendres I want to synchronise but you may prefer to synchoronise your whole library.

When a folder or file is added it will typically be added enabled (ticked). If you un-tick it, it will not be synchronised with the ipad. This way you can select with song to down loads specifically and then select both or either the albums or gendre.

To force the synchornise (copy the songs on to your i-pad) select apply and then synchronise.

Green Thai Vegetable Curry

412
16 years
by in Cooking

Serves 4, vegan Lemon grass, coriander, chillies, coconut milk – all these flavours belong to the wonderful food of Thailand.
This curry is based on the traditional Thai Green Curry found in many restaurants.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh lemon grass
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1/2 bunch Thai basil
  • 1/2 bunch fresh coriander, chopped
  • 1-2 small (hot) red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
  • 4-5 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns
  • 2 tablespoons groundnut oil
  • 100g/4oz shallots or red onions, halved and sliced
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 small aubergine, cut into 1 cm/1/2 inch cubes
  • 1 courgette, cut into 1 cm/1/2 inch cubes
  • 100g/4oz green beans, cut into 2.5cm/1″ slices
  • 100g/4oz mange tout, topped and tailed
  • 300ml/1/2 pint coconut milk
  • juice of 1/2 lime or lemon
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • Thai basil and fresh coriander to garnish

Method

Meanwhile, blend the lemongrass, garlic, basil, coriander, chillies, water
and blackpepper corns to a paste.

Heat the oil in a saucepan and gently fry the shallots or onion, garlic and
aubergine for 5 minutes. Add the aromatic paste and cook over a gentle heat
for 2 minutes.

Add the other vegetables and coconut milk and simmer for 15-20 minutes until
cooked. Add the lime or lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Serve the curry with the Thai fragrant rice with added lime zest, garnished
with sprigs of Thai basil and fresh coriander.

Email on a mobile phone

8918
16 years
by in Mobile Phones, Tips

Email via text message

Place the email address in the send to person. This can result in a new subject field being added.
You may need to set up the email service provider which for o2 is mail.o2.co.uk and 21203

To check the version of linux you are using

459
16 years
by in AIX, Linux, Tips

To check the version of linux you are using
uname -r

To check the release of the version of linux you are using

llsb_release -a

Installing Fedora 12 on virtual box

402
16 years
by in Linux, Tips, Virtual Box

Ensure you have enough memory to run the install fedora 12 to hard disk. 384mb was not enough to run the graphical installer.
Run the install as root su -
To install the VirtualBox Additions ensure you have the development build stuff. yum install patch binutils make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel dkms
Set the KERN_DIR which is the error repported in the //var//log//vboxadd-install.log log file
export KERN_DIR=//usr//src/kernels//2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686
The run the vbox additions appropriate for your environment.
cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.2_56127
./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

However I kept experiencing this not actually working despite following all instructions. I eventually found that the symbolic link to the fedora release was incorrect in /lib/build/????
a problem with modprobe failing to build. This turned out that //lib//modules/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686//build is a symbolic link that was incorrectly linked to //usr//src/kernels//2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686
and correcting that link allowed the kernel to build.
Finally ensure you are up to date with all security patches and fixes by running yum update
I then needed to reboot reboot

Show all users and your terminal session

76
16 years
by in Linux, Tips

Show all users and your terminal session with the command

who -a

who -m # or who mom likes

whoami # Gives just the login and is therefore fairly useless.

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