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Thanks to [http://imranchaudhry.com/?p=163 Imran] for the neat tip. Now everyone can see what I have installed on my phone. The keypass program is a nice new addition found by looking at Imran’s list. Hmm – this isn’t actually the complete list, for example aNetShare isn’t listed in this widget, but it is installed. What a [...]

I’ve received my “New employers” CD-ROM through the post – and it claims to support “major Linux distributions” (they really should list the ones they’ve tested). 64-bit doesn’t appear to be tested at all – it’s a pure 32-bit application. However let’s see how far we can go – these instructions are for 64-bit Debian [...]

Or perhaps more contentiously, “Why Mark Shuttleworth is wrong”. Before I get flamed to death, I should point out the “[http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/why-mark-shuttleworth-is-right-ubuntu.html Mark Shuttleworth is right]” post. I believe that what he says is actually correct – there is too much [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding bikeshedding] – having a strong leadership is a good thing, even if they occasionally [...]

I’ve just bought a new toy – a Canon Pixma 250 MFP (Multi Function Peripheral). Basically a colour inkjet printer/scanner/photocopier. £35 from Argos which seemed pretty good, I had to wait a whole minute or two for it to arrive after I ordered it – very impressive. I did some research and found that new [...]

I read way too much, sadly I came across a post this morning about data storage technologies that [http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/3867506/Top-10-Data-Storage-Technologies-That-Coul will die]. Most of those I think are fairly obvious, however some are just wrong and some lack an explanation. I’ll start with the biggest error: Scripts Firstly, scripts aren’t anything to do with data storage [...]

The last few days I’ve spent playing with [http://open.eucalyptus.com Eucalyptus] – the open source [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_EC2 EC2] equivalent. Several times I’ve been tearing my hair out – particularly with some image issues (why oh why can’t it use an external database rather than the noddy internal one – that way when it’s confused I can fix [...]

Recently, X.Org has been removing HAL from the requirement list. This is good except that it means reconfiguring things. Again. I have a Logitech G7 mouse and it has a side button which defaults to “back”. I like it remapped to “middle button” (which pastes text in Unix). I used to use a ButtonMapping in [...]

Hopefully this may help others. I’ve recently been trying startssl.com for an SSL certificate for a customer. Their wizard unfortunately insists upon generating them with “www” in front (although it provides altname of “DNS: www.example.com, DNS:example.com” (names altered BTW)) – however firefox ain’t happy. So I’m going to get them to sign my CSR. However [...]

Whilst playing with the [http://reductivelabs.com/2009/12/14/a-tour-of-puppet-dashboard-0-1-0/ puppet-dashboard] I noticed some warning notices in my puppetmaster logs. Now all file resource types must prefix “module” (although templates don’t need to!). It’s only a small change, but please can these things be done a bit more sanely? By this I mean a documented approach to when these changes [...]

I’ve recently changed my laptop and as it’s a small netboot, I’m running Ubuntu netbook remix on it. Today I’ve setup email on it and it’s a little involved so I thought it worth documenting. First a little background – I run my own email servers and I like using “mutt” as my email client [...]