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Recent Tech

Snow Leopard Server web server weirdness

Fri Feb 26 03:09:44 2010

Been tinkering with Snow Leopard Server a bit lately, and thought I'd see what the web server's up to.

Snow Leopard and NFS

Wed Oct 21 14:54:11 2009

I'll be damned if I'm going to search all over t'Internet for this information if I ever need it again in the future, so here's how to use NFS shares in Snow Leopard without all that tedious mucking about with -36 errors.

Weird SMTP connection timeout issue

Mon Jul 20 12:08:33 2009

Why would a perfectly standard MacBook Pro act completely normal in every other networky respect, but be unable to connect to any SMTP server?

Wireless repeater / extenders

Fri Jul 10 20:39:28 2009

This is doing my head in. Which is normally when I turn to novacaster.

How to overburn a CD/DVD in OSX

Wed Mar 25 12:45:48 2009

This post on Chris Duran's blog explains how to overburn a CD or DVD on a Mac, given that neither OSX's built in Disk Utility nor Roxio's flagship burning software 'Toast', support it. Cheers Chris.

Routing between network cards in a Mac Pro

Sun Mar 15 10:33:26 2009

If anyone can answer this post on the Thecus user group (or answer it here after reading it there :) then I'll offer them a vastly over-sized pint of beer.

Booted off internet and progammes

Wed Oct 1 14:18:00 2008

Getting kicked off the internet when trying to watch some video clips. and video editing suite crashes when capturing video.

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?

Recent Blogs

FMR! Jailbreaking is now legal

Mon Jul 26 20:07:47 2010

Blogs::Bruce

According to the iPhone Dev Team's blog, jailbreaking and unlocking are now explicitly permitted fair uses under the DMCA.

Direct Observation of an extra-solar planet

Thu Jul 22 16:21:42 2010

Blogs::Dave

read all about it here

Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project first results

Thu Jul 22 08:28:36 2010

Blogs::Simon

Well, that was quick - they've already discovered a new timber circle and henge about 900m NW of Stonehenge. See this article and this one for some pics. I reckon it's just visible on Google Earth immediately southwest of the Cursus Barrows, but I'll try to confirm the location if I get a chance to speak to the guys on site today.

Kind of one for Bruce

Wed Jul 21 19:19:10 2010

Blogs::Dave

not exactly a product or thing, but some subtitles..... Whale Wars Series 2 episode 5

Do not shine into remaining eye

Tue Jul 20 12:05:07 2010

Blogs::Bruce

It's a measure of how far laser technology's come in the last few years that you can now buy a ONE WATT blue (445nm) portable laser for under 200 bucks*.

Who do you write like?

Thu Jul 15 19:44:35 2010

Blogs::James

Interesting........

Amenhotep III's DNA profile - whoops, who let the sacred cat out of the bag?

Thu Jul 15 10:31:33 2010

Blogs::Simon

This is interesting - the DNA profiles of Amenhotep III and the 'mystery mummy' from Tomb KV55 (supposedly Akhenaten) have leaked via a documentary aired on the Discovery Channel about pharaohnic paternity. What's been unintentionally revealed by the camera panning across the results is that the Y chromosome data is a 99.6% fit with the R1b haplogroup. See this article for an explanation and a really excellent map :-) (Facebooky folks hit "View original post" for a bit more)

Steve Tax

Thu Jul 15 09:45:44 2010

Blogs::James

If your name is Steve, change it now!

Ahhhh Microsoftski Comarades!

Thu Jul 15 09:17:28 2010

Blogs::James

Have they shot themselves in the foot?

At last a real tablet

Mon Jul 12 14:09:28 2010

Blogs::James

Not one of this over flash (or not) 20 year old technology Apple iPad toys......

Recent Other

Picasso painting aquired during world War Two

Sat Apr 10 22:37:26 2010

Forum::Picasso

I received this painting from Canada's best known art collector years ago,I have all the documentation right down to a bill of sale and a signed letter on rear of painting from Picasso to his partner at the time,if you have to ask who don't bother. The painting was actually going to be burned to heat the room they lived in during the year 1902 which is when it was actually painted not 1903 as dated. The painting has a very obvious thumb print in left bottom corner which is referred to in the letter on the rear of painting as his way of marking his work.I have no interest in selling this painting and I consider it my most precious possesion.

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".