February 2005 - Posts
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
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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:
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I'm unsure as to why my blog is posting four hours into the future (it's now 22:41 on 20/2/05)!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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$
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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.
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Just add Packmans source: Protocol: http Server: packman.iu-bremen.de Path: suse/9.2
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Found an interesting article here which describes the command line sytax required: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_Streams_With_MPlayer
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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/* .
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I found a nifty little prog to capture Real Media streaming files today called Stream Down. http://stream-down.cocsoft.com/
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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