Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Corestar ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://corestar.com.au/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Windows command line tricks](https://corestar.com.au/windows-command-line-tricks/) - Just a quick one, since I just discovered this. (Apparently I'm slow!) You all probably know, in a windows batch file, you can do something like this: @echo off echo first %1 echo second %2 echo rest %* which will give you: c:\>test.cmd john paul ringo george first john second paul rest ringo george But - [So the Photonic Fence is being developed!](https://corestar.com.au/so-the-photonic-fence-is-being-developed/) - I want one. Lighting Science and Global Good to Develop Light-Based Alternatives to Pesticides Basically, it uses a low power infra-red light to spot flying insects, then hits it with another low power laser that determines the wing beat frequency and then if it's in a specific range - matching female mosquitoes - (males are - [Goodbye Web Work](https://corestar.com.au/goodbye-web-work/) - Corestar has stopped accepting work for websites. It's been an adventure and I learned heaps, but I have found that the web world is a frustrating enterprise. I have lost count of the number of websites I have uploaded over the years. Since 1997 as 'Aldersey Interactive', and then 'Corestar' I have been designing, implementing, - [Mirror video with ffmpeg](https://corestar.com.au/mirror-video-with-ffmpeg/) - I had a video of a group that I wanted to learn the moves of, but the video was taken from the front, and my brain doesn't cope with mirroring in my head that quick, so I thought I would mirror the video file. Thankfully I already had everything I needed - the video file - [OSX Burning VIDEO_TS folder to DVD](https://corestar.com.au/osx-burning-video_ts-folder-to-dvd/) - Learnt a new trick today. Previously, I thought that the only way to burn a VIDEO_TS folder to DVD was to use a commercial product - Roxio Toast or similar. Seems there are open source solutions! I downloaded DVD Image Utility and it works like a charm. Firstly, download, and open the zip file, moving the - [OSX MySQL setup for phpMyAdmin](https://corestar.com.au/osx-mysql-setup-for-phpmyadmin/) - Seems I can still be a noob at this game after all these years. Spent hours on this, trying all sorts of combinations and getting so frustrated, I started making mistakes... Anyway I figured I should share. When connecting to the MySQL setup by default on OS/X, the settings are kind of weird. In the - [open-mesh, an update](https://corestar.com.au/open-mesh-an-update/) - My last post detailed the problems that I was having getting open-mesh working at my house. Turns out, there was a firmware update that was (eventually) available, and it fixed the problems. Have been working beautifully for a while now, just forgot to update my blog! Thanks open-mesh! - [open-mesh - great idea, but having some problems](https://corestar.com.au/open-mesh-great-idea-but-having-some-problems/) - So, I decided that I needed to extend my wireless network, since the signal wasn't stretching far enough. After looking at other AP's I was pointed to open-mesh.com, a provider of mesh solutions for apartments/hotels etc and at $59 an access point, was very cheap solution. Other benefits are things like: the ability to sell - [Audio Brain retraining with SonicVitamins](https://corestar.com.au/audio-brain-retraining-with-sonicvitamins/) - I've just been trying out the products from Sonic Vitamins and can say that I am quite impressed. The first one I tried was the SublimeSleep. After having some difficulty sleeping recently with the daily stresses of a full on job, and family life, I thought that a little help would be beneficial. Rather than - [Adding a second VOIP number to iiNet’s BOB2](https://corestar.com.au/adding-a-second-voip-number-to-iinets-bob2/) - After spending a few hours last night finally getting this second VOIP number working on the BOB2, I figured I would write it out, and hopefully help someone! At first, when reading about the BOB2, I got the impression that we could get 2 DID (Direct Inbound Dialing) numbers for the BOB2 from iiNet. This - [Learn something new everyday… Eject CD from command line](https://corestar.com.au/learn-something-new-everyday-eject-cd-from-command-line/) - Obviously I am still new at this OS/X thing... apparently you can eject a disk that hasn't mounted from the command line using drutil. >drutil eject Wonderful stuff. Was trying everything I could think of, thanks Google! and snipplr - [New site live : TerraWines](https://corestar.com.au/new-site-live-terrawines/) - Terra wines website has gone live. Thanks to Design Design Graphic Management for the design! - [And a BIG Solar plant in California is about to start construction](https://corestar.com.au/and-a-big-solar-plant-in-california-is-about-to-start-construction/) - Bright Source Energy are on the verge of getting approval for the development of a nearly 400MW power plant in the Mojave Desert in California. Using a 'Power Tower' technology, where mirrors focus the sun onto a central tower that then uses the heat to generate power, the power plant will be the largest solar - [Molten Salt Solar](https://corestar.com.au/molten-salt-solar/) - Seems someone has finally worked out how to keep the molten salts flowing - Italy's utility Enel has launched 'Archimede' . A Concentrating Solar Plant in Sicily. 5MW, using molten salts through the whole system rather than as just storage. More details at OpportunityEnergy - [Solar in the Pilbara](https://corestar.com.au/59-2/) - from ClimateSpectator Following the sun The US-based SunPower Corp has completed the installation of a 505-kilowatt solar power facility, the largest solar tracking system in the country, at two sites in the Pilbara. The facility at Marble Bar and Nullagine, built on behalf of the local government-owned utility Horizon Power, will power the world's first - [Introducing... Corestar](https://corestar.com.au/introduction/) - After 18 years on the net, I can finally say I have a blog. Incredible how the time goes, and how technology changes. Having started with hardcoding HTML, then Dreamweaver templates, then HTML again, then finding PHP (v3 then v4 soon afterward) and starting to do some real code. Then writing my own content management ## Pages - [About](https://corestar.com.au/about-2/) - Corestar is a name my wife and I came up with which reflected our beliefs - at the core of every person is a star. Our job is to help them find it, and show it to the world in all it's glory. Since closing down the Corestar Web consultancy, I have started to use - [Contact Me](https://corestar.com.au/contact-us/) - Please feel free to ask me any questions! ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://corestar.com.au/category/uncategorized/)