Ramblings
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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…
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I’m a twit
Note to self, when testing backup software that needs a gigabit link to get full performance, use the gigabit card for the network connection, not the 100 Mbit/s card. I’ve been doing speed tests to test the multiplexing of Yosemite’s Backup, and it was capping out at 600 – 650 MB/minute, even with 8 servers…
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Gallery 1 and Lighttpd
Much like Apache, Lighttpd (lighty) has a rewrite module to rewrite URL requests; allowing ‘ugly’ page requests to look nice. Unfortunately, the rule sets I found on the net didn’t work too well with Menalto’s Gallery 1, so I ended up creating my own. The core change from the other rule sets I found is…
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Amy MacDonald
Every now and then, I wander up to Sainsbury’s supermarket during my lunch hour; usually accompanying Mike and Jason (two gents I work with). Mike has a habit of picking up one CD or DVD every week, and one day it rubbed off on me, and I picked up Amy MacDonald’s This Is The Life…