Archive for June, 2008
bye bye Xen
Well it looks like it’s time to plan a replacement server. My trusty Ideq Biostar which I’ve had since 2004/2005 is still fine, however there are some bugs for which I need to upgrade the kernel and it’s stuck at 2.6.18 since Xen hasn’t been ported to a newer kernel. I’ve backported a few fixes, [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2008 under My setup.
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helpful support from 34sp.com
Gosh. I’m almost in shock – a company whose support was helpful. In fact, two! It’s about time to renew my domain name and although the whois records say easyspace.co.uk, it’s another company I’ve actually registered though. I phoned up easyspace and (once I’d got past the queue) they told me within about 20 seconds [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Life.
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275 watts
That’s how much power my house uses “at idle”. Mostly from: * server downstairs * desktop upstairs (monitor powersaved) * humax PVR * misc items (oven, microwave, fridge/freezer) Switching one monitor on jumps it to 317W, switching a light on 362W. I’m now going to have to [http://www.smop.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Power keep track] of how much each appliance [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2008 under Life.
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XP roadmap
So Windows XP (due to go out of support in 2008) has had its support extended to 2010 for mini-laptops. Odd given that service pack 3 has only just come out for it. Now they [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/03/windows_xp_license_extension_take_two/ announce] it will also be extended for desktops. I have this picture in my mind of Microsoft adding a [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2008 under Linux.
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You know you work for an IT company when…
16:27 <blueGremlin> Any company that has an employee ‘pizza preferences’ page on their wiki is off to a good start.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008 under Amusements.
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Coffee and Tea
However did I survive without a nice coffee machine I just don’t know. I’m sure that it’s the freshly ground coffee that makes the biggest difference. I can hardly stomach regular coffee now! Steve from HasBean is amazing as ever – for example I ordered five lots of coffee on Wednesday at 2pm. They arrived [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2008 under Life.
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Asterisk
I’ve decided to play around with asterisk a bit more, partly for interest, partly as we could do with cheaper conferencing at work – we spend a fair amount of money on it. I’ve started making [http://www.smop.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php/Asterisk notes] on my setup but they are very rough ATM. Things I’ve discovered so far: * xen DomU’s [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2008 under Linux.
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