Archive for July, 2006

LugRadio – Sunday

Sunday – woke up with a minor hangover, but a shower and breakfast sorted this out. This time I got chance to have some toast and coffee. Got down to the SU in plenty of time.
On sunday I listened to the following talks:

John Leach – Everyone Loves Eric RaymondAnother one of the talks [...]

July 31, 2006   Posted in: General, Thumbs Up  Comments Closed

Ghostscript Issues

Ghostscript in etch produces dodgy pdf files (at least on the 3 or 4 I’ve made). Current version is 8.15.1. PDF files work fine in Linux but not using acrobat reader on windows.
However sarge seems fine. Ghost script version in sarge is 7.07.1
Hmm wondering if its a fault with GS 8, will [...]

July 30, 2006   Posted in: Software, bugs  Comments Closed

LugRadio Live – Saturday

Saturday was the first day of the “Official” event. I eventually got up from simply lying down in the bed for a while (I did get some sleep, but the heat of the room woke me up quite early), went for a shower and then for some breakfast. Sward wanting to get there [...]

July 30, 2006   Posted in: General, Thumbs Up  Comments Closed

LugRadio Live – Friday

Last Weekend I went down to Lug Radio Live in Wolverhampton.
A great weekend it was too.
I got down there about 5ish Friday, then waiting about 30min for Junior ’s (sward) train to arrive (he missed the one he was meant to be on). As it was the first time either of us had been [...]

July 29, 2006   Posted in: General, Thumbs Up  Comments Closed

WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian 3

After hearing about Network Manager on LugRadio at Guadec I decided to give it a go.
A bit of messing around – including installing the version from Testing I found out I need a new kernel for WPA.
Of I went and got 2.6.17 and compiled it.
Things of Note:
I had to use the ieee80211 module and the [...]

July 6, 2006   Posted in: Kernel, Networking, Software, Thumbs Up  Comments Closed

Cacti

Just added another plug-in to cacti over the last couple of weeks – weathermap.
Basically allows you to draw diagrams of you’re network, and it takes data from the rrd files and displays different coloured arrows show the percentage of the link used.
Basically allowing you to see whats going on, on your network and where all [...]

July 2, 2006   Posted in: Networking, Software, Thumbs Up, Work / Microsoft  Comments Closed

Digg

I’ve stopped reading the digg RSS feed. Why? I’m pissed off and having to constantly sign into it. Its bad enough having to logon to something just to read, but then the auto logon feature doesn’t seem to work, nor does it redirect you to where you wanted to be after logging in- then [...]

July 2, 2006   Posted in: Rants  Comments Closed