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Looks like me and iyanus will be stoating off to Nottingham next week to collect waco (our colocated SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD, which has an uptime of about 2 years) in preparation for neowaco! Basically neowaco will be a dual PIII 800, with a gig of RAM (to start with), 80 gig of RAID1 disk…

coo, it works!

hmmm looks like i managed to faff getting the templates to work – i just need to get my server side stuff working now 🙂

I was reading Richard’s diary again, and he was commenting on the new United Linux coalition of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux. The idea is to create a new superLinux, standards based, and basically a competitor to Red Hat (Richard, one day you’ll put that space in the middle!) So anyway, in doing so, he…

well, that wasn’t fun. I lost a network card in my firewall (no, it didn’t suddenly run away) – I’d been wondering why it was taking so long to download mail and files from my mail server, which sits on a protected part of my network. turns out the network card was dying – and…

hmmm, well after spending literally minutes updating the look of my site, I came to blogger to update my publishing template, so that it looks the same as the rest of the site (this blog is actually FTP’d from blogger.com to a different server on my network from my web server) … but to no…

richard wanted a diary/blog page set up after seeing some friends doing the same – and he wanted it local, so I thought “hmmm, how many times have I heard the evolters going on about how cool Movable Type is … ” – it’s free for non-commercial and personal use. So it was duly downloaded…

hmmm, ITV Digital (née ONdigital), the digital terrestrial pay-TV operator here in the UK, have announced that they are shutting down operations as of 6am GMT (7am BST) May 1st — today! It’s a shame, as the service had a lot of promise, but they succumbed to the pressure of trying to compete with BSkyB…