Archive for November, 2005
UPS
Just got myself an MGE Pulsar Evolution 1100 UPS. Well not all features appear to be supported in Linux (although as yet I don’t have a use for them even if they did work), things are looking promising with them relasing a bunch of linux stuff (inlcuding a pakage repositry for both debian and Ubuntu, [...]
November 27, 2005
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Posted in: Hardware, Software
sa-learn
I’ve just found out how effective sa-learn is at keeping out spam emails. Over the last week or so the number of spams reaching my mailbox was starting to reach stupid levels and once more outstripping the number of real mails to the point I was missing real emails for the spam. A little digging [...]
November 12, 2005
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Posted in: Software, Thumbs Up
/dev/dvb
Deleting /dev/dvb isn’t such a good idea when you want to use you’re TV card. I was mean to delete /dev/dvd but as I was tired I mispelt it and when it said its a folder thought nothing of it and stuck -r on the end of it. When it came to recording something funnily [...]
November 5, 2005
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Posted in: Software
Current Projects
Work: Test TN5250 for Windows as a replacement for Teemtalk Test thinstation to allow reuse of slow computer (+ the ten as yet unused blade servers) Finish migrating the Citrix Metaframe XP on 2k applications to the new Presentation Server 4 on 2003 + Loads of other stuff Home: This site Shift the email system [...]
November 4, 2005
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Posted in: General
Change of Name
I’ve changed the blogs name – mainly so I have a whinge about windows when I want and not be OT. Anyway Windows Whinge 1: Why have and add remove programs system which 1) Doesn’t list who added the program or when it was added – especially given the fact that even on a locked [...]
November 1, 2005
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