Tag: Technology
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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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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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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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Hurrah for Belkin
Last year, I bought a Belkin bluetooth USB dongle for my Asterisk box (if my mobile is in range, I’m at home), and for the occasional use on my Windows PC for syncing contacts to the phone. It never worked right, and I attributed it to the Linux BT stack, the USB 1.1 port on…
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Playing with the W810i
Been poking the W810i this evening, trying to get it to synchronise with my PC for things like calendar and contacts. Gave up on the official software quite quickly, as it seems to be utter pants, only supporting Outlook Express / Windows Address Book. Found a link to some software called MyPhoneExplorer, and it seems…