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Recent Tech

localhost.localdomain and sendmail

Mon Aug 4 13:16:04 2008

Some keywords first, to help me find this back next time I'm Googling... sendmail submit.mc msp /etc/hosts localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.1 Problem: appearance of localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) in Received lines for mail originating on a CentOS 4.6 server.

Apple? Thecus? Well someone's crap

Mon Feb 18 10:38:18 2008

So you spend vast sums on a Thecus N5200 Pro NAS RAID box with a view to making a resilient backup of all your donkey porn DVD rips and stuff, and partitioning it into a single vast RAID array takes 16 HOURS. But then you discover that NFS / CIFS / SMB don't allow certain characters in filenames, and whilst investigation alternatives (AFP among them at this stage) you discover iSCSI.

Is it me or...

Thu Nov 22 12:46:13 2007

.... is there an unfulfilled need for a very simple OSX menu-bar app that displays at a glance the available space on your hard drive?

Sanity Badger Cup

Thu Nov 1 18:42:53 2007

At random intervals (running the last beta before release of Leopard 10.5) the Macbook pro pipes up and states "Sanity Badger Cup is now available" or at least thats waht it sounds like :) Not sure what app is causing this or what app it really means...anyone?

Weird Mac LANishness

Thu Oct 25 23:09:25 2007

I sincerely hope this will just go away when I upgrade to Leopard some time soon after tomorrow, but it's bugging me anyway because it don't make no sense.

Weird Mac LANishness

Thu Oct 25 23:09:24 2007

I sincerely hope this will just go away when I upgrade to Leopard some time soon after tomorrow, but it's bugging me anyway because it don't make no sense.

Let's get preloaded

Wed Oct 10 11:15:05 2007

On the new mastermaster site (at mastermaster.org.uk/new3.php currently, but don't expect it to be working all the time as it's a 'live dev' environment) there's a link labelled 'random'.

3Ware SATA Raid 9550SX Performance

Sun Sep 9 18:03:36 2007

I first suspected there was a problem with this card when trying to install Centos 4.4 on a twin Opteron 2.4GHz H8DA8 Supermicro box with 4GB RAM, using an LVM / partition on top of a RAID 1 of 2x Maxtor 250GB SATA II disks. Formatting the / partition seemed to take forever, with significant pauses when writing the inode table. OK, it's a large partition (200+GB) but hangs for tens of seconds and a collapse in responsiveness led me to believe that the installer had crashed. It is only after a lot of experimenting (including trying Centos 4.4, 4.5, openSUSE 10.2 and lastly RHEL AS 4 Update 5 - yes, I know that's the same as Centos 4.5 but just in case... also different disks - Western Digital Seagate - and booting SMP kernel v nonSMP) that I've come to realise there's a more fundamental problem.

Anyone know of a solution to

Thu Jul 5 16:13:49 2007

this particular Mac feature?

regex assistance

Fri Jun 8 18:35:42 2007

Ages since I've used regex for more than single character matching ...

Recent Blogs

Bargain hunting?

Wed Aug 27 14:18:41 2008

Blogs::James

This is interesting if you have the garden space and wallet....

Classic rock gods come to Salisbury

Tue Aug 26 19:41:29 2008

Blogs::James

Anybody up for this?

Cartoons you just have to imagine #73

Fri Aug 22 11:15:06 2008

Blogs::Simon

I like typos :-) Spotted in a discussion at http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/003331.html

Photosynth

Fri Aug 22 09:04:38 2008

Blogs::Simon

How pathetic is this?!

Luciano Ligabue

Tue Aug 19 12:30:35 2008

Blogs::James

In an age of boring teenage angst in music and whining females, this is a refreshing change, in fact I think the best music out of Italia since Premiata Forneria Marconi..

Bonekickers Drinking Game

Mon Aug 18 21:31:15 2008

Blogs::James

Here is a fun one to try.

A Hint of Brick!?!?!?!?

Mon Aug 18 14:10:04 2008

Blogs::James

A well known supermarket chain beginning with S has a good deal at the moment....

Dog food

Fri Aug 15 04:04:43 2008

Blogs::Hugo

(From a retired friend.)

Minoan Crete steatite seals

Wed Aug 13 15:51:48 2008

Blogs::Simon

In Hans Baumann's book "Lion Gate and Labyrinth" (trans. Stella Humphries, line drawings by Hans Peter Renner, Oxford University Press 1967), which relates the stories of Schliemann's discovery of Troy and Evans' discovery of the Palace of Knossos, there are a number of line illustrations of Cretan seal stones. These have no cross references to the originals so I wonder if anyone recognises where these three are from...

El Caminito del Rey

Wed Aug 13 02:40:59 2008

Blogs::James

Can not sleep? I could not after watching this a couple of times...... Complete and utter madness.....

Recent Other

Latest News

Fri Jul 25 12:54:25 2008

Picasso::Overview

newspaper clipping image

This area will be updated, from time-to-time with news items concerning the 1934 Drawing and ongoing developments.

If you know of further media coverage concerning this subject, please let us know.

National & International Couriers

Mon Mar 17 12:08:18 2008

Forum::Community::General

Looking for recommendations for couriers to ship large packages in the UK and abroad (eg to USA & Spain)... any searching Googling etc just brings up horror stories. Any good ones out there?

Possible Picasso drawing

Wed Dec 26 21:22:33 2007

Forum::Picasso

I have a drawing that might be by Picasso. Please let me know if you can look at it and help me. My email is murisd@gmail.com

Vienna 2.1.3 released

Tue Aug 14 06:07:02 2007

Forum::Vienna::Support

Vienna 2.1.3 released

CIX

Mon Jan 29 16:08:36 2007

Forum::Online Communities

Founded in the late 80s as a dialup BBS and now available via dialup, telnet, OLR and the web, the Compulink Information eXchange is one of the longest surviving UK-based online communities around. It's still going strong today with over 10000 members.

Web hosts

Mon Jan 15 16:56:22 2007

Forum::Community::General

Can anyone recommend a low cost, secure, web hosting company? Does it make any difference where/which country they are based? Currently only have two domains (only one is actively used for my billycan website) to which I might be adding two in the near future.

Picasso's Guernica - Images within Images (3rd Ed.) by Melvin E. Becraft

Sat Oct 28 15:14:42 2006

Forum::Picasso

Attached is a PDF file of the 3rd edition of "Picasso's Guernica - Images within Images" published by Mel Becraft in 1986 and updated since.

New community archives website.

Fri Oct 20 11:53:30 2006

Forum::Community::General

There is a new community archives website. It was launched a few weeks ago. http://www.communityarchives.org.uk/

Ohayo gazaimasu!

Thu Oct 19 10:12:21 2006

Forum::Community::General

Just me saying a post join "Hi".

Get A Human

Wed Mar 8 17:13:11 2006

Useful Resources

How to by-pass various computerised phone systems and get through to an actual human being.