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Musings and ramblings about linux :)

ls : short and slightly odd (bit like me)… .

A collegue pings me this morning to say he is having a bit of an odd time with a script erroring out, no problem I think. This is the simplified version as in the setup we saw this we had … Continue reading

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ADW.Launcher Crash!

ADW.Launcher is a wonderful application that replaces the home screen on Android and for us poor G1 owners, adds loads of features found in later versions of Android This morning I turned my phone on and nothing, black blank screen, … Continue reading

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BackupExec RALUS Woes

This had me tearing my hair out…. Jobs on some OpenSuSE machines were failing with : Job ended: 14 June 2010 at 14:31:02 Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe00084af – The directory or file was not found, or could not … Continue reading

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Grepping Hell

Well that was a tad embarrassing I thought I had lost the ability to grep. All I wanted to do was find any instances of jt1.name in files in the current directory, simple I thought : grep jt1.name * Nope … Continue reading

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Openfire Increasing Java Memory Limits Debian/Ubuntu

Openfire ships with a 64Meg  JVM limit which is fine for testing purposes but you may find that you are using it all up.    I went round the forums a few times and found conflicting advice. Anyhoo the instructions were … Continue reading

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OpenFire XMPP Server on Debian

I was asked today to set up an IM server for internal use,   originally they were specifying Windows messanger but I was able to suggest we try a proper standards based system instead So I need a server,  a few … Continue reading

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LRL2009 PIMP IT!

Yes ladies, gentlemen and chinny racoons,  LRL 2009 is scheduled for : To put this countdown on your site is simple,  just copy and paste the following code : <a href=”http://www.lugradio.org/live/2009/” target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 0pt none ;” src=”http://da.mned.co.uk/stuff/lrl/lrl_countdown.png” alt=”Lugradio Live 2009, … Continue reading

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Ubuntu on the Eeee battery life

Well the battery monitor app either needs housetraining or something as it bounces up and down more than I do 10 mins ago it told me I had 6 mins remaining and now it has crept back up again Currently … Continue reading

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Silly Ibex wont start X

Meh my Eeee had just decided that it did not want to start X due to an internal error. A most odd occurrence and after a bit of digging I found the culprit, a read only file system. It seems … Continue reading

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Intrepid Ibex on the Eee701

Despite being quite happy with the default install of Xandros on my Eee701 that I have been using for nearly a year now I have taken the plunge and installed Ubuntu on it, partly to standardise (all my other desktop … Continue reading

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