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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

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February 2005 - Posts

I hate Mondays (sometimes/mostimes)....
Training in London this week so caught the 06:38 into Liverpool Street from Ipswich which is supposed to arrive at 07:59 but didn't arrive till 08:25, some 26 minutes late. Arrived back at Liverpool Street to catch the 18:00 back to Ipswich to arrive Read More...
Firefox Font Problem
Does anyone know why Firefox has started doing this? It's not just on the rendered pages because it's doing similar weird font things in it's own dialogue boxes: Read More...
Four hours in the future?
I'm unsure as to why my blog is posting four hours into the future (it's now 22:41 on 20/2/05)! Read More...
Blog to move
This blog will shortly move to Community Server v1.0. I have it setup and just need a way to move the existing post over - I did find some scripts but there is supposed to be and easy to use migration tool being released in the next few weeks. It will Read More...
Suse 9.2 Bootsplash not working
I installed Suse 9.1 home from downloaded CDROM's , upgraded it to 9.1 professional via the Suse website and then upgraded it again to 9.2 Professional from the downloaded DVD. The Bootsplash screen was not working. After a bit of digging I found that Read More...
Suse 9.2 fails to resume from disk
The saga of getting my Suse 9.2 box to behave as well as my Suse 9.1 box pre upgrade continues. Slight problem with suspend to disk. Well, rather, the resume from disk just wasn't working. After some digging I found that the 'resume=/dev/hdc5' entry was Read More...
SSID is case sensative in Linux!
Now, you may know this, but I just wasted two days trying to get my wireless working again. I had some problems and re-did the wireless configuration but whatever I did I couldn't get any traffic to register on the wireless interface. Turned out that Read More...
How to prevent Squid caching .asp pages
We need to access a (poorly behaved) website at work and it doesn't play nice with Squid. I've put the following in to try and force it not to cache .asp pages no matter what the cache settings are. refresh_pattern \.asp$ 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern \.aspx$ Read More...
Using MRTG to monitor Cable Modem Bandwidth
There is a really good readme to be found here: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/windows_nt_idiot.htm This allows you to setup mrtg to monitor any single device. Read More...
Installing Mplayer on Suse 9.2
Just add Packmans source: Protocol: http Server: packman.iu-bremen.de Path: suse/9.2 Read More...
Using MPlayer to RIP Realmedia files on Linux
Found an interesting article here which describes the command line sytax required: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_Streams_With_MPlayer Read More...
Firefox showing Real Media content
I had some problems getting Firefox to use the RealPlayer plugins today so I just had to link them in: # cd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins # ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/* . Read More...
Capturing RM media files
I found a nifty little prog to capture Real Media streaming files today called Stream Down. http://stream-down.cocsoft.com/ Read More...
Red-carpet problems with Suse 9.2
I wanted to install the latest Evolution\Ximian connector for Exchange combination but I had quite a few problems with the red carpet daemon crashing on me. I verified it was crashing by using "sux -" to switch to root and then ran it in non-daemon mode Read More...
Red-carpet problems with Suse 9.2
I wanted to install the latest Evolution\Ximian connector for Exchange combination but I had quite a few problems with the red carpet daemon crashing on me. I verified it was crashing by using "sux -" to switch to root and then ran it in non-daemon mode Read More...
Evolution Upgrade Problems
Evolution caused me a small headache in my 9.1 to 9.2 update. I had a developer snapshot installed so the upgrade program didn't know how to install around it. I decided to simply remove the old version first and upgrade any libraries by choosing the Read More...
Upgrade from Suse 9.1 to 9.2
Took a chance today to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop from Suse 9.1 to Suse 9.2 and it all went rather well. I had a few minor problems which I'll deal with separately. Read More...
Thank you Miguel Jimenez!
Well, having found the term Captcha and having done a little digging you can see that each comment page now requires you to enter a validation code - This should stop all of the automated comment spam I've been getting and it was incredibly easy, taking Read More...
Comments still a problem
Still getting hit by lots of comment Spam. Community Server RC2 was released last night so I'm going to put this on test. When this is released it effectively becomes version 1.00 of Text and it has some anti-comment spam features. Theere has been some Read More...
Comments
I'm going to try switching comments back on to see what happens. Adam Kalsey seems to use a blacklist system of some type - Might be worth investigating. Read More...
Update to Exchange IMF out Now
IMF has been letting through a bit of spam recently but have no fear, a new version is here! You can download it from the Microsoft download centre . Read More...