A simple matter of…

Thanks to 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. [...]

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 unstable.

/cdrom/EmployerCDROM.linux [...]

Or perhaps more contentiously, “Why Mark Shuttleworth is wrong”. Before I get flamed to death, I should point out the “Mark Shuttleworth is right” post. I believe that what he says is actually correct - there is too much 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 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 other than [...]

The last few days I’ve spent playing with Eucalyptus - the open source 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 it up more [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]