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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…

  • Hold down the ‘t’ key and pray

    So what with my iBook never going to have video again I drove down to Southampton on Sunday and picked up a MacBook (John Lewis, a) had stock, b) give you a 2 year warranty 3) give you a free Apple wireless keyboard and mouse – Ebay!). Its nice enough and the screen is indeed…

  • Okay, so I spoke to soon

    Well, it did work, but today when I turned on my iBook… nothing. Resetting the PMU has no effect, so I think its dead. I am compiling VNC ATM but I’m not sure I can start VNC services via SSH, so we’ll see.

  • By the power of blog(skull?)

    I post an entry about my iBook dying and what happens? It starts working again! Wow… Okay, so in between I did discover the correct keypress to clear the PMU, which I rather suspect helped, but, Woohoo!

  • It’s dead Jim…

    I think it is safe to say that my iBook is no more. It got a bit warm on Monday night (was on the table, but my flat was hot) and suddenly the graphics went fuzzy and messed up and the machine froze. I rebooted but got no video, so left it to cool down.…

  • 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.…

  • Long time no update…

    Wow, been ages! I suck. Anyway… BluePlanet with Colin and Amy  and SO. Spent a few days on the canal then went to SO’d sisters wedding. Been riding DH too! I know, shocking that 4 weekends ago at Caersws was the first time this year! Practise at Gethin the weekend before last and then raced…

  • Tubeless

    Earlier this week I purchased 3 inner tubes for 5quid. I thought I needed some more ‘cos I couldn’t immediately find a new one to replace the flat one in my Camelback. Today, whilst tidying up my flat and moving things around, I discovered 12, yes, 12 inner tubes. One is dead (big rip), 3…

  • ADSL Max

    Well, I now have ADSL Max at home. 8MBit down, 446Kbps up. This should make Avoriaz a bit nippier for those with things still on it. No bandwidth cap either, well, not that I’ll hit. I have 30GB a month between 18:00 and 24:00, unlimited outside those hours. I will run some speedtests over the…

  • 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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