Asirra, and the end of another term
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...
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Linux Vs. Windows slides
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...
Redesigned again, new toys and multiple monitors
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...
Greetings from Gutsy
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...
Of screen and Solaris
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...
Undiscovered planets
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...
New server
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...
HowTo: svn+ssh on Windows
The problem: Windows doesn't have an inbuilt SSH client, so trying to check out files from a Subversion repository over SSH doesn't work out of the box. I've...
Groupwise maximum
Recently, I've been working on a new project, an update to the Magdalen College JCR Rooms Database. Doing this whilst on holiday with no internet connection ...
Two days of CSS
So, I've spent the last 48 hours writing a couple of style sheets. The first one, as the regular readers amongst you will notice, was for this site (apologie...