September 24th, 2009
CVSNT is a drop in replacement for CVS so they say 
Well ish… To cut a very long story short I had a problem very similar to this one. I had removed my old CVS install and installed CVSNT in its place.
I go to a dev machine, use WinCVS and BANG no such repository! I run to my desk and ssh into the server, no all our code is there and still in the same place and no change to the CVSROOT on the dev machines either.
Fast forward a few hours of keyboard bashing and searching…
Even if you are only accessing CVS via SSH you will still need to configure /etc/cvsnt/PServer just copy the PServer.example file to PServer edit the Repository0 section to put the path to your repository, save and you are done
This is a CVSNT security measure apparently and it could have been mentioned a bit more prominantly IMHO
Hope this saves someone else a lot of time and dry cleaning bill
August 25th, 2009
I will assume you have heard the news about Lord Mandy, Geffen and a quick paid for amendment to UK Gov policy…
On http://gl.u.gg a forum for nice people Spinnie who has a flair for playing devil’s advocate said
Civil rights groups? It’s a civil right to steal stuff? I must have missed that memo.
It is a valid question and I offer the following:
It is a civil right not to have a form of communication cut off on the basis of unsubstantiated rumor by an arbitrary commercial trade interest group.
Does this seem any more rational:
“The Associated Amateur Dramatics Union paid observer in the pub heard that you went to see a play and then spoke to several friends and said it was not very good, this was damaging to our revenue stream. Our source said that you had done this before. Therefore we demand the right that you no longer have the right to have a telephone to prevent you causing any more damage to our business.”
There is nothing I fear more than Am-Dram societies getting organised.
July 6th, 2009
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 clicks in the Proxmox interface ( a rather nice way of handling OpenVZ virtualisation) and I have a new blank Debian lenny box already to play with.
Added the non-free option to the apt repository (as we will need the Sun JRE) and off we go Apt decided to moan about :
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release:
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public
key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
Which was solved by this post here
A quick :
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring
and off we go again
Next stop is the Java monster, mercifully simple to install nowadays:
apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Next we grab the latest openfire deb, then install:
dpkg -i openfire_3.6.4_all.deb
Which seemed to be too painless…
Fire up the Wizard on port 9090 from a browser and you are done
June 5th, 2009
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, 24th October 2009, Newhampton Arts Centre Wolvehampton" width="237" height="251"></a>
There will be more styles and options and of course the code to run the counter yourself to follow
May 12th, 2009
…but this is not what I am waiting for…
April 15th, 2009
Installing RT on Debian today I got into a bit of a CPAN dependacy loop with the make fixdeps tool 
I eventually tracked it down to the URI module.
Basically the URI module fails to install because of :
t/heuristic……FAILED test 6
On doing some digging this was to do with checking correct name resolution and looking for a picture of a camel on the perl site (you can’t make this stuff up ).
At the moment something is a bit screwy and this test is currently failing but it is not a big issue for correct operation. The simple work around is to attempt to install it ( cpan URI ) wait for it to barf and then pop into /etc/resolv.conf comment out your nameservers, rerun cpan URI and it will install correctly (remember to uncomment your name servers again in resolv.conf!
Now to get the rest of it up again
Oh BTW I installed XML::RSS and DBD::mysql via apt-get in the end
January 22nd, 2009
Jason, a very nice chap, has just started KYP Health and Leisure (KYP is for Know Your Potential) and has now got a website, it is a little empty at the moment but hopefully there should be a healthy amount of content up there some time next week
Have a look here : http://www.kyphealthandleisure.com
