Ramblings
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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 it’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…
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Autostarting Glassfish on CentOS
I’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.…
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Cutting my electricity usage
I’ve been bitten by the ‘how much electricity am I using?’ bug recently – 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 I’m on call. I had to VPN in…
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Nostalgia Revisited: Synchronet, LORD, TW2002, RIP, QWK
Something sparked in my brain the other day that I really wanted to play Land of Devastation again, and while I was at it, TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon might be a good idea too. So, off on my hunting I went, exercising my Google-Fu in the quest to find a BBS…