Category Archives: english

Motivation

Sometimes I wonder why there isn’t more stuff on this blog. I think it boils down to the fact that I seem to be almost incapible of sticking to one project. As an example, at the moment here are the … Continue reading

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I Hate downtime

Yesterday evening, I agreed to turn my Home Server ™ off too help some people sleep. Unfortunatly my servers sleep turned out to be the big sleep, and this morning it refused to start. A few hours and a HD … Continue reading

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Ubuntu vs AAC (round 1)

For better or for worse, (generally for worse) a lot of multimedia systems seem to like making peoples lives difficult. This is painfully obvious with AAC and the formats that use it (think mp4). Luckally, playback can be assured by … Continue reading

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Bye bye Dapper, Welcome Hardy

I’ve just finished upgrading my server to Ubuntu Hardy, with virtual no trouble. The only problem came from the kernel, which now calls  ide drives ‘sd…’ instead of ‘hd…’ so hda1 becomes sda1. Update grub or face the consequances.You have … Continue reading

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Bye bye trackbacks

FYI, I’ve deactivated trackbacks since nobody seems to want to send me one :’( And because spammers seem to love them :-[

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Presenting ring_logger v0.1

 Ring logger This weekend, I had an urge to catch up on one of the umpteen projects that I’d like to start, so I attacked a ring logger. Basically, a ring logger, keeps the log messages in a ring buffer, … Continue reading

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Zabbix

Sometimes things that seem completely harmless just come and hit you over the head… That’s what happened to me with Zabbix yesterday. I was going through some items and cleaning up, when suddenly, 4 hosts went off-line. Except that they … Continue reading

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Rate cuts and what they mean to the rest of us

No, I haven’t got a multi paged analyses lined up, I’ll leave that to Mark and others like him who can put it much much better than I can. OTOH, here’s a couple of quotes for the day: A banker … Continue reading

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Geek's dream…

Or mabey not, anyhow, here’s a quick counter to tell you how far away KDE4 is…

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XKCD Rocks

Just a quick link to a couple of xkcd webizodes… Philippe, you were right, Python is the best thing since sliced bread! And on a more sentimental note: Dedicated to everyone who’re just to far away

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