January 1, 2008I’ve never been very good at keeping them, so I generally don’t try and make them. Instead, this year, I’m setting myself a couple of small goals..
Get out on my bike at least once a week Take more photographs (Project365) Work more on the 101, and 102 Strobist guides. Get to the gym at least 3 times [...]
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January 1, 2008So, I couldn’t help but laugh… Of course, I’m a nerd, which explains it all… xkcd always seem to have some interesting stuff, but this one made me chuckle…
Oh, and happy new year.
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December 23, 2007I’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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December 14, 2007Shortly 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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December 7, 2007They don’t run so well, when somebody changes all the passwords they run as, without notifying you… grumbles
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December 6, 2007Due 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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November 15, 2007I’ve noticed in the past that the BBC has a habbit of picking interesting headlines. Here is this weeks.
More cash to beat school bullies
Again, BBC with an ironic headline. Wouldn’t it be nice if the government was really handing out cash to bring back school beatings
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November 4, 2007Well… my server is anyway. After the unexplained stability issues I’ve been having with my own server, I’ve decided to take the leap into a dedicated server at a proper data center. Not only did I move data centers, but I moved platforms. I’ve decided to swing over to Debian Etch, from [...]
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October 22, 2007Am I right for the job I do? Last week whilst out of town, it dawned on me at dinner, that I know very little about the job I do. Well, more specifically the industry in which I do my job. I work in the automotive industry, and while I know a [...]
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October 12, 2007Earlier this morning, I received an email from “The CapitalOne Fraud Department”, claiming to have been trying to reach me concerning fraudulent activity on my email account.
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I'm a full time network administrator, working for a large company in the automotive industry. I enjoy spending time with my family, when I get away from work that is. I also enjoy photography, and computer programming.
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