Category: Tech
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Broken, bah!
Arse. Two things I discover are broken today. Firstly, Codetek VirtualDesktop Pro does not run (well, it runs but doesn’t work) on Intel Macs, so I have only one desktop ATM which is like, wrong. Secondly it appears that although SpamAssassin has been letting thousands of spam mails a week through, it had a mad…
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Apache log managament.
In the old days I would move the Apache logs to one side, renaming them as I went, then restart the Apache. When I could use a ‘graceful’ restart this wasn’t to bad, but now I need to use a ‘restart’ (‘cos graceful seems to bork with PHP) I feel uncomfortable about kicking out connections.…
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Its raining again
Up at 4am this morning, to watch the Australian F1 GP. It was a good race overall, thought sadly for Button there were to many safety cars. I spent a bit the the early hours taking a look at the a look at the external site interface API for Gallery, used it to stick a…
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Mac Java
So today I needed to use a Dell DAC4 “console” for the first time in anger. Its a simple enough thing, you SSH forward ports 443 and 5900 to your local machine, point the browser at https://localhost:whereever and off you go. This works fine… or did. You see, since I tested these things, Java 1.5/5…
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Morgins Mail
I spent a little time this morning sorting out some issues with mail on Morgins. Filtering now works (#Exim Filter does anyway), so you can create a .forward file in $home and send your spam elsewhere… — al@morgins ~ $ cat .forward # Exim filter if $h_X-Spam_bar: CONTAINS “+++++” then save $home/.maildir/.Spam/ finish endif —…
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Phones, again…
So, I narrowed my choice down and decided I rather liked the Sony Ericsson W800i, despite it being rather orange. Trouble is, I tried one and the UI is, errr, horrible. Now I realize I should spend longer trying to get used to it and that after 5years with Nokia’s I am going to be…
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Airport WiFi
So, I knew Singapore airport had “free wifi” so I tried it this morning. You have to switch your mobile phone to the STARHUB network and dial a number, they then SMS you a user ID and password. Its all free and it all works. What I didn’t expect though was free wifi at Colombo…
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Router/Firewall “hard drive”
The 3.5″ 4GB IDE drive in my router/firewall is unhappy. It is making more noise than it used to and it seems slower to use, though there are no errors in dmesg. For a while now I have wanted to remove the hard drive and run solid state storage on it, I could run fanless…
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Faster, finally…
I know most ISPs did this a while ago, but now my ISP has finally caught up and will be doubling my ADSL speed for free. So I get an uncapped 1Mbps line with a /29 fixed IP block. Sweet 🙂 “Sometime in the next 3 months” though… ho hum.
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Welcome to Morgins 🙂
Well, after a bit of playing with add-in VGA and USB cards to try and get the IBM Netfinity 4000r installed I had to admit defeat. Having installed a base Linux OS on the hard disk the BIOSes virus warning wanted to tell me the boot sector had changed (I know, I just loaded GRUB!)…