Month: July 2008

  • Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 2

    Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 2

    Having rolled home around 00:45 on Saturday (Oysterband ran long due to encores), I slept in a bit.  Decided to wander over to the Festival around 11:30 A.M., and looked for lunch.  Fortune smiled, and there was a Caribbean food stand offering curried mutton, saltfish fritters, jerk chicken and more.  Enquired after the curried mutton,…

  • Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 1

    Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 1

    It was the Warwick Folk Festival over the weekend just gone, and I decided that I should enjoy summer while itโ€™s here.  Nipped down to the ticket office on Friday afternoon, purchased a ticket for the entire weekend, and then zipped home after work to grab the D80, lenses, flash, and battery packs.  Hopped on…

  • Autostarting Glassfish on CentOS

    Iโ€™ve been working with Glassfish recently, from the system administration point of view.  First task, after getting a good build with Maven (doing it with basic rpm methods netted me a massive dependency list, including things like Firefox!), was to write an init script so that Glassfish can be integrated into the CentOS boot sequence.…

  • Cutting my electricity usage

    Iโ€™ve been bitten by the โ€˜how much electricity am I using?โ€™ bug recently โ€“ prompted by looking at my 6-monthly statement from my current electricity supplier.  $work happens to have a utilities component to it, so I asked if I could borrow one of our in-the-house whole-house electricity monitors to see if an offer for…

  • Windows XP, VPNs and DNS

    I have a work-supplied laptop.  Until this week, whenever I activated the PPTP VPN to work, I was able to resolve all of our internal servers by DNS name.  This is good, it means I can navigate our network at work without remembering IP addresses. This week Iโ€™m on call.  I had to VPN in…