Month: July 2008
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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,…
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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 itโs 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…
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Autostarting Glassfish on CentOS
Iโve 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.…
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Cutting my electricity usage
Iโve been bitten by the โhow 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…
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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 Iโm on call. I had to VPN in…