Category: Wayback Retrieval
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Out and about
I’m currently sitting in a Premier Inn room in Crawley, West Sussex – a few miles from Gatwick Airport. “Why?”, I hear you ask (or maybe not [and my English is failing me, is that comma right?]). Just to pick up a friend tomorrow – it was easier to do the 122 miles today in…
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Another drive bites the dust
The title of this post is actually slightly inaccurate – in the past 15 years, the number of hard drive failures my personal hardware has had (as opposed to hardware I’ve worked with) can be counted on one hand, two if my memory is a bit off. This morning, I had reason to thank the…
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The pain of upgrades
It is a given that an upgrade normally breaks something. Take, for instance, the upgrade of my laptop from Kubuntu 7.04 to Kubuntu 7.10. 7.04 didn’t play nice with my NVidia video card – it’s an older card, so the legacy driver was needed. To get things working, I ended up removing files and editing…
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Coconut cupcakes
Got a hankering to do some cooking this afternoon, so cook I did. 250 g butter, equal granulated sugar – blend until approaching fluffy. 2 large eggs – blend into the sugar/butter mix one at a time until well mixed (no separation). Some amount of flour – I did this purely by feel and texture. …
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Server Migration part Deux
With the web side of my mail and web migrated to a Xen VPS, I spent this weekend moving my mail services across. SASL gave me grief, as it usually does. I’m not sure whether it was the plain or md5 SASL extension that solved my problem in the end (I’m using MySQL as the…
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Gutsy broke my Print Screen
KDE has supported the use of the Print Screen button as the hotkey for running KSnapshot for ages; to the point I can’t remember when it didn’t work. I used this feature heavily in Feisty, as it meant a single keystroke captured the screen, and brought up KSnapshot to deal with saving it (to wherever…