Monthly Archives: November 2006

Why Open Source Java is Good News

I prepared some notes on a few topics and they weren’t used that much so I thought that I’d use them here as it’s been a while since I said anything useful on anything other than the miniutae of any … Continue reading

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Today I Have Been Mostly Irritated By…

…Stupid mail servers. You see, while being a reasonably well balanced person, I tend to see through things quickly, particularly advertising, marketing, PR, promotions, special offers and those guys with the throwing games at the fair ground and shit songs, … Continue reading

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Woohoo!

I have finally gotten around to buying a Cowon iAudio X5 multimedia player. So, ogg audio and video playback on the move for me. I meant to buy one a while back but couldn’t squeeze the legacy money repository any … Continue reading

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Remote Power Control

I’m going to be putting some servers into a data centre and manage them remotely. That means power control and optionally an IP KVM. Does anyone know the best way to do this? Do I need an IP KVM? What … Continue reading

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Greylisting With Exim

I recently trialled and then implemented greylisting on a few Exim mail servers, seems pretty straight forward when you know how to add it to the Exim config. I guess I ought to post that config snippet in case it … Continue reading

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Do You Know Whats Wrong With My Guitar?

Ok, I said had a few “Dear Lazyweb”s. This is the second in the series. I put my home ‘studio’ back together to work on Jokosher as I had moved my PC, laptops, guitars and amp to my parents house … Continue reading

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Problems with Jokosher/Gnome Audio/ALSA/DBUS/Ubuntu Edgy

I’ve been helping test Jokosher again, just as we come up to the second development release, but sadly I seem to have a problem with Jokosher recognising my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 since upgrading to Edgy. It all … Continue reading

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Been Around the World

Well actually haven’t but it feels like I have. I only went to Cyprus but it’s been chaos since I got back. It’s been a while so here’s a rundown. Went to Cyprus, the Turkish part. It’s really nice, very … Continue reading

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