Cambridge and back
Musings on public transport, and a look round The Other University So, full term ended yesterday, and I had to get over to Cambridge for a dinner. The X5 bus...
Musings on public transport, and a look round The Other University So, full term ended yesterday, and I had to get over to Cambridge for a dinner. The X5 bus...
A problem which has been bugging me for a while is my Konsole and Yakuake terminal sessions ceasing to respond to input for no apparent reason. The symptoms ...
See the relevant RFC for the background. Here's how I implemented this for my Debian server, with Bind9 handling my DNS: Generate the DNS records by typing ...
Spam. It's not going away, and nor is my increasing annoyance at some of the things we need to do to avoid it. Like making a separate email forwarder for eve...
Last week, I gave a Lightning talk to CompSoc on the subject "Linux vs. Windows- which is better?". It seemed to go down fairly well (I wasn't lynched outsid...
So, as those not reading via one of the planets will be aware, I've rolled out the fourth (or is it fifth?) new theme for this site since May 2007. I'm defin...
Last week, the beta version of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon was released, so I decided to blow away the slightly messy installation of Feisty on my laptop, and make a...
I'd been a regular user of SSH for several months before I discovered screen. For the uninitiated, it allows you to create multiple 'windows', each containin...
I needed to set up a Planet recently, and there appears to be very little online documentation about the process. To be fair, if you install it on Debian usi...
My friend and web host, Martin, recently decided to scrap his old server running DirectAdmin, and replace it with a shiny new CentOS VPS running Plesk. Havin...