Written by admin on July 22, 2007 – 10:07 pm
The lovely Severn Vally Railway is in a bit of a state due to a spot of inclement weather in the UK. Give give give, they do a fantastic job and bring lots of money to the Severn Valley and now they need your help.
I love the SVR it is run by [...]
Written by admin on July 22, 2007 – 9:43 pm
In a fit of quite shocking lazyness, I give you are reply to a post on the LUGRadio forums where I am replying to Chris (CBHWorld) who I met at LRL (Hi) with a hat that I am most envious of who could see a justifiable use of DRM for a library [...]
Written by admin on July 20, 2007 – 10:42 am
Just read this article and this sort of thing really annoys me. It has been solved already by Fluendo you can legally purchase your codecs from them for 28 euros.
Job done, now can we move on from the codecs issue please.
Written by admin on July 19, 2007 – 10:37 pm
A tad emotive title so I will quickly admit the following :-
- I have been a Windows user.
- I have used OS X intermittently, mostly when trying to get the Macbook for a friend.
- I have experienced “Apple support” when helping a friend who has a Macbook
- I now primarily use Linux and BSD software.
- [...]
Written by admin on July 19, 2007 – 9:02 pm
If you don’t know why this is amusing then you probably are best not knowing
Linky to a picture on a power strip with surge protection that I bought from Sainsburys…
Written by admin on July 19, 2007 – 11:37 am
So off on my adventure of building an LDAP based corp network I come to my next challenge I want to have all my network authentication done with Radius, and I want it to backend onto the LDAP directory. The idea is to store EVERYTHING in LDAP to make life [...]
Written by admin on July 16, 2007 – 5:39 pm
Well we have someone doing PAT tests in the office and I am not sure he is paying attention, sure he refused to test my heavy duty power over Ethernet adapter (16A commando to an RJ45 
“er you don’t plug that in do you?!?” ) but he has amusingly [...]
Written by admin on July 16, 2007 – 4:59 pm
I could not resist this you just know that all that bloke is going to be remembered for now is “the bloke that had to deny UK troops were releasing man eating badgers in Iraq”
Actually, I think it looks quite cute
Written by admin on July 16, 2007 – 4:55 pm
It works! It finally works!
Well it is installed
apt-get install gosa was pretty straight forward, so onward to adding the schema files to openldap, this is where I hit problems.. I was following the instructions for Debian at : http://lena.franken.de/ldap/installing_gosa_debian_sarge.html and utterly failing at step 2 was quite demoralising I kept [...]
Written by admin on July 4, 2007 – 5:03 pm
Compiz fusion is the name that of the recently merged Compiz and Beryl projects (Beryl was a fork of Compiz) and it all got very complicated but they have agreed to bury the hatchets and work together again which is good news, anyway I got sent this YouTube clip the other [...]