Hotmail Spam
Or "why your mail from hotmail may not reach me"
archive for 2009
Adobe Air UPS Tracking
Track your parcels from the comfort of your linux desktop!
Cycle lanes on pavements
Why I almost never use cycle lanes painted on pavements
Verbal Nagios Alerts
Have verbal nagios alerts with festival
Coloured Shell Prompts
A script to automatically generate the shell prompt colour from the username and hostname
Checking apache conf syntax
Finally, Debian now does this when you /etc/init.d/apache2 reload, rather than silently failing and killing your websites.
Backupninja from Debian to Ubuntu
Some hints about using Backupninja to backup Debian servers to an Ubuntu box
Moved to Mercurial
I've now made the move from svn to mercurial, so my repositories can now be found here
Windows Vista Recovery Disc
Need a Windows Vista DVD for its recovery mode, but your system manufacturor didn't give you one?
Is Windows ready for the Desktop?
People often waffle about whether Linux is ready for the desktop, so I thought I'd examine it the other way around. Be warned there is some humour intended here.
Recovering Corrupt ext3 Superblocks
Fixing an ext3 partition that has corrupt superblocks and won't mount because the kernel thinks its ext4.
SIP Intercom
Why settle for a doorbell when you could make a SIP-enabled intercom?
Images Rendering in Firefox but not IE
What do you do with images that render in Firefox fine, but appear as a red cross in Internet Explorer 6 & 7?
Fujitsu Siemens Repairs
As many of you may know, My laptop's motherboard broke and I had to get it repaired. Here's my review of Fujitsu Siemens' in-warranty repair service.
Oxford Date Panel Applet
Do you find the GNOME date/time panel applet virtually useless during Oxford termtime? I've written one that displays the Oxford date instead. It's based on Andrew Godwin's oxdate python module, which is inspired by Dom's Oxford Dates perl module.
Lighttpd Book Review
Packt Publishing have released the first book devoted solely to Lighttpd that I have come across. With chapters covering compiling, configuring, virtual hosting, CGI, streaming, logging, SSL, optimizing, migrating from Apache, Lua and even writing your own lighttpd modules, Andre Bogus has attempted to cover everything you will need to know. In this post, I will discuss what I think are the good and bad points about this book.
Installing Python eggs for multiple users
I recently needed to update my python-psycopg2 package to a version that wasn't available in the Debian or Backports repositories, so I decided to use Python's ez_install command. In short, ez_install installs Python eggs, which are equivalent to Ruby's gems and are meant to be a cross-distro library installation system. However, the egg couldn't be used by other UNIX users.
Packt Publishing’s Book on lighttpd
The kind people at Packt Publishing have requested that I review their new book about lighttpd. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on how good the book is until it arrives and I have a chance to read it, but they do have a sample chapter(pdf) online to look at. Watch this space
