Monthly Archives: July 2007

SVR Appeal

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 … Continue reading

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Of DRM and Libraries

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 … Continue reading

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The Linux Codecs Issue

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 … Continue reading

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Apple, more “evil” than Microsoft?

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 … Continue reading

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Oh noes!

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…

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Radius, LDAP and Ubuntu

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 … Continue reading

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PAT testing….

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 … Continue reading

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FREEDOM BADGERS DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS!!!111

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 … Continue reading

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LDAP GOSA Pain and Suffering :)

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 : … Continue reading

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More Compiz Fusion Demos

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 … Continue reading

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