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I bought one of these a while ago. It kicks ass. Like totally. One thing I have run into which is really annoying is that if you have a HDMI input source like an XBox 360. If you then use the optical audio output to connect the TV to an amp it will only ever be in stereo, you'll receive no DTS or Dolby Digital. It seems the TV has something built in that means it only outputs a stereo signal baring two exceptions . The two exceptions are (a) watching its FreeSat channels or (b) watching something using its built in Media Server channel. Note that it also only outputs stereo for the standard Digital Aerial based channels. I've tested this out firsthand. No menu option to control any of this. I tried looking through the "hidden" service menu. Quite dissapointing for what I thought was a highend TV. The annoying thing is that you know it "could" do it but they've actually set it not to.

It's got a youtube viewer built in so naturally the first thing I saw playing on my new TV is a 50" Star Wars Kid vid

So the prestigious Digital Media Awards were held last night, six entries, six first place wins. Very pleased. I developed the more complex ActionScript for all the eDetails and the Virtual Clinic project used my ActionScript framework for the Flash side. Obviously I didn't do all the work myself, all the content and design work was handled by other people Team Flash FTW!

The same agency was behind all three 'best of the best' award winners and it was easy to pick out Manchester-based outfit Creative Lynx's table, which was quite literally piled high with awards.

Prizes were split across four categories: education/clinical benefit, promotional use, technology and the premier awards, which picked an overall winner from each of the three categories.

Here are the ones we won:

Education/clinical benefit

• Best offline project for healthcare professionals: Novartis - Virtual clinic (Creative Lynx)
• Best digital tool for clinical or practical benefit: Novartis - Virtual clinic (Creative Lynx)

Promotional use

• Best rep-led digital selling tool: Janssen-Cilag - Concerta XL e-detail (Creative Lynx)

Premier awards

• Best integrated campaign: Janssen-Cilag - Concerta XL brand revitalization (Creative Lynx)
• Best educational solution: Novartis - Virtual clinic (Creative Lynx)
• Best promotional solution: Janssen-Cilag - Concerta XLe-detail (Creative Lynx)

Hit a snag with an Air project I'm working on tonight. Got right to the end of the last set of requested changes and then started getting the error: Error #3013: File or directory is in use. It occurs with both new files and old files I'm replacing. Took me a while to suss it out but I now have a fix that works a treat.

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So a full eight and a half months after my house was burgled I finally got the call saying my insurance claim had gone through. You always hear stories about how the insurance companies try to screw you over but in my case they were the champions. My insurance company don't actually handle the claim, they pawn the work off to a third party company called Cunningham and Lindsey. In my case it was handled by someone called James Cook. He was well neat from the beginning as he came around and reviewed everything about the situation. He checked all the doors and windows etc, ran over the story with me and just covered everything really. It did seem things where going great. Then things started to drag on, and on and on. The whole way through the police kept battling us. First they wouldn't give us a crime report ID, then they kept changing their official reports then, the thing that's dragged it on for so long is that they kept avoiding interviews with James.

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I use Plesk for one of my servers and have had this problem for a while now were certain files and directories could not be removed via the Plesk File Manager or FTP, permission denied. These files were created by Joomla when I installed a module through one of it's admin pages. The problem with this is that it creates the files with the Apache user as the owner. This means Plesk can't delete them. Turns out this was due to me being a dumn user. Inside Plesk go to Domains->Name of your domain->Web Hosting Settings. Under Services where I have PHP Support ticked I also have it set to run as an Apache Module. The simple fix is to change this to run as a CGI Application. It's a trade-off between performance and ease of use. Now when things are created via a CMS admin page they will be done so with the default Plesk user, the tradeoff is that it's a wee bit more sucky when it comes to performance. For now I'm not concerned about that, convenience wins.

That sorts it out for future use but it doesn't help if you've already broken things. To sort the permissions out on files that are already set to Apache you will need to connect via SSH. I use Putty to do this. You have to get the connection settings from your service provider. Once in you have to navigate to the domain directory that the naughty files are in.

Then to change the owner you do: chown username directory. Say my user name was ted and the directory with the crapped out files in is called www I'd do: chown ted www.

You can change the group with: chgrp groupname www e.g. if the group name was ducks then you would do: chgrp ducks www.

You can make both of those recursive if you really messed things up with: chown -R ted www and chgrp -R ducks www.

To change the permissions you can do: chmod -R 755 www which means the owner can write/modify/delete but other users can just view stuff.