I must say I’ve really (not!) enjoyed having to restore both my home and hosted servers from backups as you broke them so they wouldn’t even reboot, with your little irc bouncers (psybnc). I must admit that if not completely gaining root access then being able to write into /etc and the crontab on a […]
This I first heard about when the initial trailers apeared on Channel 4 at time of first broadcast. Yet at the time I didn’t get to see it. More recently I think it was repeated and with the power of my PVR I got to see what I later found out was episode 3… About […]
So today I had occasion to visit WH Smiths in Liverpool St. I go in, down to the end to find the latest X-Men special, and this ‘security’ guard comes over and says “You have to take off your hat”, I say “Why?”, he says “Security”. So I think “whatever”, go round to where the […]
in attempting to see whether having the newest versions of cups & avahi I discovered that my home server was still running dapper and not edgy as I’d thought. So I dist-upgraded to edgy and found the vncserver wouldn’t start automatically. Fixed that by adding the changed fontpath in vnc.conf. Next I thought I’d go […]
When I left the house this morning I was quite surprised to find a new wheely bin, coloured blue, outside next to the other two. This one is apparently for paper, glass and aerosols, which I would imagine is going to be far more useful than the small green box we had before. I suppose […]
So I get to the tube station on my way home (on Wednesday), after having left on time, to find that my oyster card doesn’r want to work. Go to the quick ticket machine and try to read it, nothing. Go to the big ticket machine and try it, still nothing. Go to the ticket […]
All, some time on the 12th/13th March, there was apparently some kind of power surge that affected my hosted server. The first sign of that was that the database service notified me of corrupted tables then stopped running. After that I connected to the machine and discovered that most commands I typed didn’t work. After […]
A few months ago my dads cousin brought his familys computer around for me to fix, after his petulant 14yr old broke it, insisting he was ‘trying to make it better’. What I did at the time was to restrict administrative access ( it’s winxp) and change the Administrator password. Now it’s broken again so […]
…based on the works of Billy Bragg. Sing along with “I’m not looking for a new England, I’m just looking for another Girl!….” complete with high-kicking dancing girls with big smiles and feathers and sequins. […]