I’ve recently been toying with the idea of setting up a schedule for my home servers to be up. As the only time I really use them is whilst at work (to stream music from), I considered a simple script to power them down at a set time (18:00), and power it up before [...]

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Ever tried to figure out how to get the perfect exposure? Old time photography pros probably already know all about the Guide Number, but Strobist has a quick guide to the “Guide Number”. It’s a handy bit of information, and I had a play with it this evening. You can dial in [...]

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A few months ago Life Hacker tipped me off to an interesting app called Launchy. It’s a pretty handy application, allowing you to keep your hands on your keepboard to launch applications, and, if you follow LifeHacker, with a few tweaks, you can make it do a whole lot more.

Well, they just released version [...]

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Shortly after we released 1.4.12, somebody reported that the package didn’t match our checksum for it. This is not a good sign, so we set out to find out what might have happened. It turns out that one of the package managers had their account compromised, and the files released in 1.4.11, and [...]

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They don’t run so well, when somebody changes all the passwords they run as, without notifying you… grumbles

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Due to deployment times, we often have to make quick changes before other departments can catch up. One such example is IP deployments. It can take the corporate network team 48+ hours to get us a new IP address. This means to get a new site up and running quickly, we have to [...]

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I did some AD cleanup yesterday, including removing some accounts that have been disabled for over a year. This is all part of our migration plans to move to integration .

What I didn’t notice was one of those accounts was for an employee that hadn’t been with the company for several months, [...]

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Phew… finally got 5 minutes to get 1.4.12 out the door. This release included a bug fix for attachment handling, which was nearly entirely broken with PHP 4, and just slightly broken in a minor area in PHP 5. Full details are in the ChangeLog, grab your copy.

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I upgraded one of our kitchen toys this weekend… Got a new knife set, now I can look like a real chef, even if I cannot quite cook like one. Maybe I’ll start going to courses, or just grab a few books, and randomly pick recipes to try.

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