A simple matter of…

At the end of this week I’m off to LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco.
I’ll be there as we are now partners of Altinity. Altinity make Opsview - which is a customised Nagios. In particular it is much easier to setup and administer - there are many great features including:

  * Distributed [...]

I was sad to see that Randy Pausch has died. If you’ve not seen it, you really should watch the last lecture. Even if you are (like me) someone who hates “go get them” videos, just bear with this one, even if you think it’s going to get your hackles up, it won’t. [...]

Occasionally we’ve had this during a tomcat restart at a customer site.
After a little while we rebooted. Next time it occurred on a test platform and I could check shared memory (using ipcs and ipcrm commands), all files (temporary files etc). Then I restorted to “strace” which allowed the app to start. [...]

pot - “The PM said “unnecessary” purchases were contributing to price rises”.
kettle - “The UK is to slow its adoption of biofuels amid fears they raise food prices and harm the environment”.
As has been known for quite some time that biofuels in their present form are bad:

heavily subsidised (otherwise they would be incredibly uneconomical)

generally [...]

That’s “passed” with an “a”, not an “i”.
On Thursday I passed by DAS Motorbike test. I’m now able to ride any motorbike I like (after my CBT test last year I could ride anything up to 125cc).
Many, many thanks to Steve and Tim at Bike2Bike for all the training and persevering with [...]

I’ve blogged about last.fm before, but it’s so good it’s worth mentioning again. It’s changed a fair bit since I last used it, the client has got better (it’s also as simple as “apt-get install lastfm” in Ubuntu and Debian for us Linux users).
A recap - you run last.fm, type in an artist [...]